Medellín Day 3

Before leaving to Salento, we had a bit of time in Medellín. So we did the impossible: we found a post office after walking for an hour and going to three different places. For days we had been looking for stamps for the postcards (which were also quite hard to find), we asked the police, the souvenir shop where we bought them, random people in a copy shop, and they either didn't even understand what we were looking for, or they didn't know where to get them. The guide of the walking tour said, that they didn't really have a post, people didn't send letters to others. With our last money we bought the stamps, which the lady at the post office glued on the postcards one by one using her finger, so the poor lady behind us had to wait like 15 minutes until we were done.
After that we went to a cultural centre, with some paintings and sculptures and then to a contemporary art museum in a beautiful building, full of Botero sculptures and paintings.
Then we had a very long bus ride to Salento, which felt like ages, because it's super hilly and the traffic is terrible on the single lane roads.Read more