Medellin

Statues downtown

Medellin was a beautiful city, and where we were staying felt extremely safe. We were staying in the Poblado neighborhood, which is the wealthiest and safest neighborhood in the city. We passed one morning going down town to look at all the fat statues. A lot of the statues were nude, and you could see where people were touching because it changed the statue to a yellow color. We were planning on eating breakfast downtown, but unfortunately every restaurant only had fried chicken or fried bread, not much variety. Fried chicken has been a staple across central and south America, even for breakfast. Not one of my favorites. Downtown wasn’t as safe feeling as el Poblado; there were some destitute people around and prostitutes, so we didn’t stay for very long. Among the statues were lots of tourists and police officers, but other than that there wasn’t much to see. 

We ended up riding the gandala up the mountain into Arvi, a nature reserve. Medellin has mountains on either side with all brick houses built all over them, it was amazing how expansive the city was and it was really beautiful to see it al from the gandala, the pictures don’t do it justice. We got off the gandala to walk through the town a little bit, which was filled with kids playing, vendors selling food, and each restaurant blasting a different song. This area was much safer than down town, even though it’s a poor neighborhood, and it was fun to walk through it.

Even in a foreign country Nate was able to surprise me with flowers!