Colombia Trip: Day Six (Medellin)

It’s not always most effective to attempt to fit in too much in a little amount of time, but with only a couple of days in Medellin I seriously had no selection, even though I did really feel like I saw alot.

Bright and early Monday morning I hopped on Colombia’s only inner-city train method, Medellin’s Metro Line, and headed south to the Metrocable, an extension of the train system which are really cable cars heading up into the outer barrios of the city and back to the train. Kind of like Disneyland’s, but fewer colors (and a lot less expensive). From here you seriously get one of the most effective views of the city. As you look out across the cityscape you can see the clouds in the distance rolling along against the hills, generating the tops of the hills look like they’re floating over the city valley.

Next I headed to Cerro Nutibara, a modest hill near the center of the city where there’s a re-creation of an Antioquian village (Antioquia is the name of the state where Medellin is located). On the topic of Antioquia, the word on the street was that they’re some of the nicer men and women in Colombia, which I couldn’t agree with additional. From the workers to the random people I met, they were all incredibly friendly and seemed like they definitely wanted to know what I was attempting to say, even in my broken Spanish.

Anyways, I finished up the Botanical Gardens which has this giant, alien like structure plopped in the middle of the complicated which, from what I can tell, genuinely doesn’t serve significantly of a purpose other than allowing for some pretty cool pictures (see below).

I finished up by hopping on a plane north to the Caribbean coast to the town of Santa Marta, just outside of Cartagena, which is where I am now, and which is where there’s also a massive rain method as well. So a lot for heading to the beach and attempting out snorkeling for the 1st time. Hopefully I can get out there tomorrow, otherwise the extent of my encounters with water this trip are going to be limited to the flooded streets here in town.

Medellin at night.

Here are the cable cars heading into the hills of Medellin. Most likely one of the cooler attractions that’s actually not an attraction (and even greater, the ride is included in your Metro trip).

A balcony in Pueblito Antioquian.

Me once more, Medellin.

Medellin city street (this is by far 1 the less chaotic ones).

See, I told you I wouldn’t be able to keep from doing yet another pictures of food. Anyways, this is a typical Antioquian meal, consisting of such healthy items as rice, ground beef, fried plantain, sausage, avocado, and different fried pork items from areas of the pig I most likely haven’t even heard of.

Here’s that really cool structure in the middle of the Botanical Gardens.

If you can’t tell what those are, those are massive raindrops falling in Santa Marta (taken this morning). Sigh.