Park 10 Medellin

... say plenty of rum and cokes were had in order to mark the occasion.<br><br>We decided to take cable cars up to the top of the city in order to get a good view but ended up stranded when an electrical storm forced the cars to shut down. That night we headed to a bar called Mango's which, apart from being expensive, ended up being very entertaining. The bar is set up in wild west decor and the highlight include two midgets boxing the heads off each other in ...

... English or any other language being spoken.<br><br>Anyway, we explored a little more and headed back to the hostel. That night, I wanted to go watch the Boston Red Sox vs. Yankee's game so I went to HOOTERS with an American guy and girl. They were from Connecticut and she was also a SOX fan. So, we hug out in Zona Rosa and watched baseball. Hooters was good!! J<br><br>Zona Rosa is a bar area where everyone goes to party and eat. It is a very nice place ...

... to Colombia instead they would probably argue "There was a war in Colombia. And so much violence. Haven´t you heard of FARC or Pablo Escobar?"<br> <br> However, one could easily retort, with equal persuasion, "There was a war in France too with moe violence than the world has ever known. Haven´t you heard of the SS or Herman Goring?"<br> <br> To all intents and purposes FARC and the Medellin Cartel are dead, just like the SS and Herman ...

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... and touring the salt flats of Bolivia in a rented Jeep Wrangler. May... Chile and Argentina. Jess is coming down for a few days to Santiago, Chile where we will spend time on the Chilean and Argentinean (Mendoza) wine trails. Along with the chilly Pacific coast and possibly a few days at Easter Island. After that, I leave technology and this blog behind while I tour the remoteness of Patagonia for 2 to 3 weeks. Camping under the Southern ...

Medellin: (click "Show all 25 thumbnails" above to see the fotos) Bschool buddy Eric Mersh and I visited Medellin, Colombia for about a week and both fell in love with this city! Only a 3 hour flite from Miami, Medellin is a marvelous gem hidden (though not for long) from the traveling masses. Perhaps the most livable city I´ve ever visited, it is one of (if not the top of) my favorite places in the ...

... in the small town square, and people and life everywhere. From the looks I was getting I fathomed that a gringo is a fairly uncommon visitor and so made a beeline for the refuge of the first cheapish looking hotel - the nice enough Caribe. My first task this morning was logging onto the Lonely Planet website to try and work out a forward plan of action. Apparently the bus trip I had tackled is hugely dangerous, particulalry at night (sometimes best to find these things out ...

... more for them than me, but the ones around the park were either, dead, lame or pronounced to have ***** music. We must have checked out five places before we found an open-air bar across from a big box place. There, in a pure coincidence, we ran into two Irish girls I recognized from my hostel. Lots of half-bottles of the local rum, Ron Medellin, and Cerveza Aguila were consumed until the wee ...

... one was severely damaged by a guerilla bomb in 1996 but the authorities left it in place and built a similar one next to it to demonstrate an anti-violence message.As part of the Medellin Metro system there is a cable car section which runs up from the city centre into the Northern "barrios" which sprawl up the hills in a mass of red brick buildings as far as the eye can see. Going up in the cable car gives some really superb views over Medellin city and also takes you ...

... It's all a business", she said - the paramilitaries and guerillas are just fighting over territory. Talking about the general view of Colombians apparently happier with their new found security over the last few years, she kept on repeating the words "un buen trabajo....un muy buen trabajo", "a job well done....very well done" when she referred to the clever way in which Uribe, with the support of the press had been able to draw curtains over what was really ...