This is a view from the metro of a small part of the City Medellin. We spent a week in the city exploring the museums and walking around the city. One of our favorite things was a city tour, the tour giude gave us a run-down of the crazy history and brought us to many areas that we would not have seen otherwise.
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| Here we have Colleen fondeling a Botero sculpture in front of the Antioquia museum in downtown Medellin. |
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| This is San Gil 10 hours northwest of Medellin. A small city that we enjoyed for over a week. While here we went paragliding, enjoyed our days lounging in the central park and driving through the surrounding towns with Mauricio(in the picture below). |
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| Patrick helping Mauricio deliver toilet paper, cooking oil and broom sticks to a local bodega. We met Mauricio hitchhiking back from a nearby town and we instiantly made friends. We ended up spending 3 days with him driving around the countryside delivering goods to the samll picturesque colonial towns. He would show us off to all of his friends who would feed us and give us treats from their trade. We got a fresh cigar from a tobacco farm, 2 kg panela, guyaca juice, fresh bread and lots more. Colombians are the most friendly people ever! |
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| A small town called Barichara outside of San Gil. Famed as being the most beautiful town in the area with 300 year old whitewashed buildings and stone streets. |
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| This is one of the vegetable/fruit areas in the local market in San Gil. The was also a meat area and a whole floor above this one selling veggies and random contraband stuff. We came here everyday to get food for dinner. |
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| Colleen taking flight with her paragliding instructor! |
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| View from the paragliding. Patrick took this photo up in the air. Shortly after his guide missed the landing and they crash landed in to a tree! They both ended up being just fine minus a few cuts and bruises. |
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