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Breath Easy

Today's tour consisted almost entirely of a bus ride with photo-op stops. It was a tour of Los Nevados National Park near Manizales. We started in the jungle where some plants had leaves bigger than bass drums and vines dangled on the road. That disappeared and was replaced by midgit palm...

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ryanmyers on August 11, 2009 from Manizales, Colombia

from the travel blog: Ryan's First Sabbatical

public bathrooms in the midst of the festival

The Feria de Las Flores is a yearly event that takes place in Medellín once every year. The event initaially took off in the early 1950”s, when a small group of gardeners wanted to show off their fine flowers to the rest of the city and possibly the World. Medellín is known as the city of...

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kipmaddog on August 9, 2009 from Medellin, Colombia

from the travel blog: adventures from down south

cartagena (added a bit late)

Shirtless men sit poised in white,plastic chairs, under colorful colonial balconies of red and green. Evening approaches and families gather the side walks to give the day one last look over before they have to retreat into the hot sticky air of their small shared house. Colorful fruit lines old...

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kipmaddog on August 9, 2009 from Cartagena, Colombia

from the travel blog: adventures from down south

a moment in the life of a medellin ganster

It"s not just being in Colombia; it is so much more. Curiously perspective eyes target you as you dodge endless stares, only soon to be encountered by more. The walls on the street get darker. Exhaust sticks to these walls as they fade into black. You"re now in a seedy part of town wishing you...

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kipmaddog on August 9, 2009 from Medellin, Colombia

from the travel blog: adventures from down south

Fun at the Frontera

I've been excited to come to Colombia for quite some time and this is my first experience: The border between Ecuador and Colombia is notorious for scams and tricks, so when I arrived I was more cautious than normal. Some other Canucks I met told me that some thieves even dress up as cops to...

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ryanmyers on August 7, 2009 from Pasto, Colombia

from the travel blog: Ryan's First Sabbatical

Heres some more thoughts

The real trick of a tourist walking the downtown street of any Colombian city is to not look like a tourist. I had this look down quite well. Walking at a pace that isnt faster or slower than the person next to you, you must never make eye contact with anyone, especially in any downtown distcit....

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kipmaddog on August 6, 2009 from Medellin, Colombia

from the travel blog: adventures from down south

Cordoba

Jeremy and I took turns visiting Cordoba. I just got back yesterday - had a wonderful time. Took a high speed train, AVE, which was just amazing. First of all it looks sleek from the outside. Inside it's ridiculously spacious and comfortable. They show movies and give you headphones. There...

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vita on August 5, 2009 from Cordoba, Colombia

from the travel blog: MP goes to Europe

Curing the sick and givin em" a taste of S.D.

Two of the girls in the apartment had been sick for quite afew number of days. Now that I think of it 5 days to be exact. They were not seriously sick, only moderately with a slight cough that didnt seem to go away nor get any worse. I felt obligated to give them some remedies to kick that gosh...

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kipmaddog on August 5, 2009 from Medellin, Colombia

from the travel blog: adventures from down south

The Pad

It"s the smell of powdered laundry detergent, the sound of blaring bayonato music, and the clunk of the large tin door that hits me as I first enter. The kitchen is a opaque white. Two walls in the livingroom are blue, the other two, yellow. I step in, the tin door slams behind me, sending me a...

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kipmaddog on August 4, 2009 from Medellin, Colombia

from the travel blog: adventures from down south

medellin, where its spring all year long

I awoke the other morning realizing that everything in Colombia is built for people five foot seven and under. I was thinking: everytime I am in a public place I am bumping into someone, hitting my head on a damn door frame, getting stuck in a computer desk at an internet cafe, or having to sit...

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kipmaddog on August 3, 2009 from Medellin, Colombia

from the travel blog: adventures from down south

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