Tag: Colombia
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Friday 16 August 2019. Highlights: Replica town Peñol de Guatapé, Rock of Guatapé, Guatapé zocalos, tuk-tuk ride. Today was a full free day from the tour so the group split and did there own thing. Seven of us selected a day tour to Guatapé which our tour leader Miguel organised and joined us (cost 110,000…
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Thursday 15 August 2019. Highlights: Exploring Medellín – Downtown and the infamous (but great) District 13, Monserrate Hill Cable Car ride. We have two full days in Medellín before catching at flight out on Saturday. Today was the chance to see Medellín up close and in depth while tomorrow some of us will leave the…
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Wednesday 14 August 2019. Highlights: Long countryside private bus ride, a quiet beer in Medellín Today was a repositioning day to get from Salento to Medellín. That meant leaving our hotel in Salento at 7 am and attempting to get to Medellín before peak hour traffic.
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Tuesday 13 August 2019. Highlights: Cocora Valley Hike, Playing Tejo (Colombian traditional sport). We started our day with an included breakfast at our Armenia estate and it was then off on a 50 minute drive to Salento for today’s activities – basically hiking and later trying to cause explosions!
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Monday 12 August 2019. Highlights: Recuca Coffee Farm, Mi Monaco Farm Visit Today started with nice included breakfast at the beautiful Mi Monaco Estate. The sun shining and the excellent company of the group over breakfast was an ideal start to the day.
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Sunday 11 August 2019. Highlights: Paloquemao Market, Hostal Mi Monaco The trip begins today. My tour group picked me up from last night’s ’emergency’ accommodation at the Hotel Dann on the way to our first event a visit to the Paloquemao Market. Our Chief Experience Officer (CEO) Miguel introduced himself to me and a quick…
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Saturday 10 August 2019. Highlights: No transit driver and initially no hotel room, finally arriving in Colombia! Most of the night I found myself waking up every time I moved during my sleep due to a sore neck which was such a pain but by mid-morning it had remitted quite a lot so hopefully will…
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