Medellin Hotels

... to Colombia - over the following 7 weeks I had no troubles at all, 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... a small cafe, taking up half the place with our bags and sat there for about 2 hours while we searched in groups for a place to stay. Medellin is best known for its night life and not much else, and maybe as a result of this theres a lot, and I mean a ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... and our security team (Luke, Christian and JP) further along the coast to the beaches of Taganga before heading to Medellin, a city in the central highlands and home to the famous Pablo Escobar, for New Year. Taganga sits in a picturesque national ...

... the time being, we went our separate ways. Jimmy & Slater boarded a bus to Salento and I traveled solo on a bus to Medellin. I had to call Carolina during the journey because she'd offered to come and meet me at the station but the bus ...

... advice as he returned to the road, advising me to steer clear of the skirts roaming up and down the street in front of the hotels. "They´re men," he added. "Oh, is that why they all have deep voices?" I replied. The following day I headed to another ...

... to cab to 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 ...