El Peñón de Guatapé

Even after my big night, we woke up very early to begin our journey to El Penol. This was a bus to guatape and a tuktuk to El penol, though our bus driver was nice enough to stop right out the front of El penol for us. We still had a long walk up to the beginning of the stairs. In hindsight, we should have gotten a tuktuk, but we decided to walk up hundreds of stairs before the 750 that ly ahead of us to get to the top of El penol. To be fair, the crowds slowed everything right down, and therefore, it was quite easy to get to the top as the pace was quite slow with traffic. The heat definitely didn't help, though. The 360 degrees of the surrounding region was really interesting. The waterways were very uniquely shaped and extended for as far as you could see. There were even mountains on one side that added another layer of amazement. After some time, we headed back down and got a tuktuk to the city of Guatape. We had plenty of time and decided to spend it wandering around and seeing the nice town. It was very colourful with cool artwork and murals that represent colombia everywhere. It was a tiny town, though, and we saw it all within a couple of hours and decided to get an earlier bus back to Medellin. We had some drinks on the rooftop of the hostel before playing some ping pong and going to bed.En savoir plus