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Day 27: Cali
Friday 1.7.2016 Cartagena has a gorgeous seaside, buttressed by a historical wall and sharing the sound of crashing waves with denizens of her cobbled streets and fast evenings. Medellin rests at the bottom of a valley, awash in silver light and low clouds while creeping up the sides of green valleys. Manizales offers an unprecedented…
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Day 26: Cali
Thursday 30.6.2016 Cali is our last stop in Colombia and the last major city in the country before reaching Ecuador. Cali, Quito, and much of Peru all the way down to southern Chile are walled off from the continent by the mighty Andes Mountains, all resting on humid plains and experiencing a tropical heat unlike…
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Days 18-25: Manizales
Wednesday 22.6.2016 – Wednesday 29.6.2016 Writing about Manizales is going to be hard. Guerillmo, our host, challenged us to embrace the environment of remote Colombia fully and using an iPad to publish my thoughts seems sacrilegious after meeting people who don’t know how to read. So I apologize in advance for the difficulty that I…
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Day 17: Manizales
Tuesday 21.6.2016 After pushing our time in Medellin back a day already, Molly and I decided to leave for Manizales to meet up with Guerillmo, an Internet pen pal for the past three months and the Don of a small cattle ranch in rural Colombia. We had no idea what to expect and the shock…
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Day 16: Medellin
Monday 20.6.2016 Molly and I decided that today would be spent learning about the history of Medellin. We managed to get up reasonably early, with the goal of making it to the prestigeous Modern Art Museum and taking a walking tour around the historic downtown afterwards. Of course, today is Monday, so the museum…
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