Holiday Inn Exp Stes Medellin

... have a kick ass bridge and some nice churches (that we could not get into). After a bus ride we got dropped off and walked to the town center. We walked around taking pictures and having all the kids stair at us because we were foreign. After a fresh and cold lemonade, we took an little lawn mower taxi ride out to the bridge and took a lot more pictures. The bridge was interesting. The girl I was with is an engineer so she loved the bridge. After the ...

... d come down. <br><br>Dave and Milena came and met us that evening for dinner and apparently they'd been quite worried about us getting out there and back. We didn't tell them that we'd got off the bus at the wrong stop and had had to walk a kilometre back up the road.....they didn't need to know that. We had arepas for dinner that night, a kind of corn bread served with loads of butter and cheese. Very bad for you but quite tasty and very ...

... one besides being simmilar in the basics (lots of people, crammed together, bad traffic, higer cime) each city has its distinct personality and I am perfectly content with uncovering its many layers. Therefore much of my time especially during the day was walking around and soaking it all in if you can excuse the cliche. There is a certain tranqulity to this city that I haven't experienced in others. Although you have the death defying walks across the street the ...

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... rich and poor was clearly evident here as I rode the multi-million dollar cable car system over the homes of people who probably survive on $2 dollars a day. Medellin means goodbye to the Ozzies. They all head home soon and I´m on my way to the north. I have an open invitation to visit The Gold Coast in Australia whenever I want so hopefully this goodbye is really just "see you soon."

Medellin is probably one of the nicest cities I have been to on this trip. The tempurature is about as close to perfect as you can get, and it stays that way all the time. It rained off and on while I was there, but it didn't stop the weather from being nice. I didn't really do much beside go out at night here. I kept meaning to get on the metro and go somewhere downtown but I never did. Still, I had a really good time here.

... camera to capture it, so a couple of my uploaded pictures are stolen of Google images. It turned out the best way to see it was to ride the Metro, which elevated up and down the valley, with a detour up one of the valley sides on the funicular. Medellin is, of course, most famous in recent history for the cocaine cartel, Pablo Escobar, the movie "Blow," the political assinations and the finale, the car ...

... a "Little Britain" , with an unusually large number of Brits staying there compared to the rest of my travels . Relatively speaking I haven´t met &amp; mingled with that many fellow travellers from Old Blighty on my trip ... generally I don´t actively seek out my fellow country-folk like some other nationalities seem to like to do as I tend to find it´s interesting to mix with a lot of different nationalities. But I have to say it´s been good to enjoy a bit of British ...

... one to take with me....who knows when I will find another book in English. So that's pretty much Medellin....once again not the place of old where it was run by the drug cartels, Senor Escobar and had a horendous crime rate....now it is run by Dr's performing plastic surgery on women that want silicon boob jobs....by the looks business is good about every 2nd chick here seems to have had the work done!!!!! Sorry guys no pics included!! haha! Cartagena tomorrow.