Lago Calima

Today the motorbike took us to Lago Calima, a usually pretty touristic lake 3h from Cali. Unfortunately I didn't see any tropical animals, even though instead of street signs warning of crossing dears, here they warn of monkeys.
When we arrived though, there was nobody else, neither all the usual attractions like jet-ski, banana-boat, kite-surf and many more. Therefore, we just swam a little in the lake, but didn't last that long either because it got pretty cold. Consequently, we had plenty of time left, so we took another road back, saw the dam and had a desert. Then we went to “kilómetro 18“ on the road which leaves Cali, where the calenses come because it's way colder than in the city and to have some hot chocolate or aguapanela con queso. We first had a little adventure, exploring a track I had read of to Dapa. It Is like an ecological walk between different fincas (=cottages), but on this day we also were the only ones there. On our way back, we had a hot Milo (a really famous hot chocolate) at km 18 - which was also served with a piece of cheese :o
Back in the city we met some of Williams friends to have cholaos and go to an arepería, where they sell stuffed arepas like subs.Read more