Estelar Blue Medellin

... some kids at play in the day care and took some funny pictures. There is a mural promoting non-violence but it is in Spanish so I am not really sure of all of it. I also busted my ass on a small slide and about took out my new friend. :o)) I hope she sends me the pictures soon. Well, the most interesting part of this trip is that I did get to play the roll of protector. Not to the girls though. At one point we were petting some little dogs and 2 big ...

... off there heads that no one noticed it was so late.<br>Anyway, I left with this girl and went to one of these pay by the hour motels. Basically because kids live at home until they are 26-28, and the fact most latin men have mistresses, they have these places where you rent rooms by the hour, drive your car into a garage, get out and then go into the room. You pay through a slot in the wall, so no one ever actually sees who is going in and out.<br>Anyway, the rooms are like ...

... br>I also managed to get to the Fernando Botero museum (he paints pictures of fat people and makes fat people sculptures). I don´t actually like his stuff but there were also works of Picasso, Dali, Monet... many other artists that were far superior. <br><br>Bogota itself is a HUGE city, situated at around 2,500m. The historic part of the city is quite nice but I managed to venture out of this to the entertainment district with theatres, cinemas, etc. It´s got a real ...

... Blanca Hostel: Dbl room, share bathroom $22 Around Cali San Cipriano. 2hrs from Cali, good day trip. backpacker hangout. Get there via small train cart from Cordoba. Nice river for swimming, relaxing, rapid tubes, Casa Davie: 10 000 or $6 for basic room Bus Cali-Popoyan 8 000 or $5 3hrs Popoyan Peaceful, white washed colonial town, uni town Casa Familiar ...

... of rice and beans and arepas with corn) and gave up a bedroom for us, which meant they were all squeezed into other beds but they insisted and didn´t seem at all put out. Despite how normal this seemed to them, they´d never had travellers stay with them before and their little girl had never met a foreigner. It was another great chance for some Spanish practise since noone in the family spoke English other than "goodbye ...

... Ganz schoen anstrengend. Doch die Aussicht von dort oben ist gigantisch... Wunderschoen... Haben dort dann eine Schulklasse getroffen (45 Teenies zwischen 14 und 17 Jahren, z.T. natuerlich mit kuenstlichen Bruesten). Diese waren begeistert von uns, wollten Fotos und fanden das natuerlich seeehr witzig... Sie nahmen uns dann in ihrem Car mit bis zum naechsten Dorf. Ich stand also in Mitten dieses Buses und die haben mich alle angestarrt, wenn ich geredet habe ...

Medellin, Colombia Medellin is the 2nd largest city in Colombia, with Bogota being the first. Pablo Escobar made Medellin famous and it was once a very unsafe place to visit because of him. Thanks to new government policies and a large police force, the city is now safe for tourists and locals alike. And this is so lucky for me because Medellin is an amazing city that I have fallen in love with. There are so many fantastic ...

... s curvaciousness to the drug lords is, indeed, a popular theory. However, my own personal view is that the female of residents of Medellin are paying homage to the great Colombian artist, Fernando Botero. Medellin born and raised, Botero's sculpures dominate the public artistic landscape of central Medellin, his ludiscrously proportioned, voluptuous and humorous bronze figures in the Plaza Botero in particular a ...

... in the spirit of "trueque" (barter or exchage) offer ideas/links or skills that may be useful for them. The cooperative is an incredible place - a large-ish house with a painted mural outside and covered with creative art and images inside. They have a non-hierarchical culture and their philosophy is that everyone learns together and from each other in an environment where relationships between themselves and other ...

... and the mainstream press. They kept on highlighting the injustices - the lack of support they received, whilst their oppressors where being given resources. They also spoke about the corruption of budgets. State resources are distributed via participary budgets, however the local paramilitary leader uses the money to build houses for himself. Doña Oliva explained that the consejo comunales (community councils) are all headed up by the paramilitaries ...