Hotels in Medellin Colombia

... in fact, I had an amazing time!!! - 6 weeks in Medellin learning spanish, salsa dancing and brazilian jiu jitsu. Medellin is Colombia's 2nd largest city, at an altitude of 1500m, it has perfect weather all year 'round. Beautiful people, fantastic vibe, ...

... high! Hotel Plaza Rosa, Carrera 32d No. 9-17, Tel: +57 (4) 312-0005, Web: www.plazarosa.com . This is another of Medellin’s better hotels offering all the mod-cons. Their rates including breakfast were 184,000 and 192,000 pesos for 1 or 2 persons. ...

... corner to get some food, after being offered heroin and a whole host of drugs, and bumped into Phil......who was with Carolina (a Medellin born Colombian girl we'd met 3 months earlier in Argentina). So we went out and got some food. Carolina showed ...

... nbsp;giving Camilla and I ample time to trowel on our slap, and preparing us well for the festivities ahead. Other stops in Colombia included the capital city, Bogota - not so impressed.  Enormous, cold and a bit scabby with loads of ...

... the Calle 33 neighborhood for a light dinner and head back to the hotel hoping for an early start in the morning. Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia Friday January 14th -- Early morning and no word has come on the permit.  In order to depart in time for ...

... 12-14 hour bus ride turned out to be 19+ hours due to an accident in the mountains. We arrived tired and hungry in Medellin. We´re currently in a very, very nice part of town with loads of upscale shops and restaurants!!! The best part is the weather, ...

... coffee is served in the coffee shop. We decided to check out the same morning and head to Pereira to be a step closer to Medellin, unfortunately we just missed one bus and had to wait another 2 hours for the next. So we decided to have another good value ...

We got to Medillin about 5 hours ahead of schedule...very strange for Colombia, usually its the other way round. The road there from Cartagena is normally closed at night as the army dont police it and the Gorillas can have the run of the place. We had ...

... , new libraries, more commercial centers and plenty of posh apartment buildings going up all over. There are works of Botero (Colombia's most famous painter) everywhere, though I really don't care for his fleshy exaggerations.  And the people, or ...

... town 1 1/2 hours away called Santa Fe de Antioquia. This city, mostly remembered for being the home of Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel and the world's cocaine capital in the 80s and 90s, during which time gun battles in the streets were commonplace, is ...

... a puncture and my mates don´t stop or come back for me and I don´t have an address. It´s dark in a rough looking part of Medellin city but I set to repairing. I pull the bike onto the pavement and find something to chock it up (the bike has no stand ...

... me. Everything was spotlessly clean. You can also see how upscale it is by how varied the restaurants, hotels, and stores are. No where else in Medellin will you find a trendy Japanese joint like Sushi Light.  Ryan and I waited twenty minutes before ...

... out for me. i walked back to the hostel bought some iced tea and yogurt. imet up with a couple auzzy buddies who were changing hotels to a nicer suit at the holiday inn. i invited my self and we went out shopping for supplies - a few sacks, a few bottles ...

... nbsp; We visited this place out of sheer curiosity, and to learn more about Colombia´s shady past. Although Medellin wouldn´t rank anywhere close to our top 10 loveliest cities in the world, we found some interesting dimensions to this ...