After all the excitment of hospital visits & dengue fever, it was great to be able to get out and about and enjoy Medellin! It's a real city, not one that's really on the tourist trail but we found lots of fun things to do...
We rode the metro cable car up the mountain to an area called Santa Domingo to check out the views of the city. Built to connect the barrios on the side of the valley with the rest of the city, it's a really neat idea and a fun way of getting around town! You only get 6 people in each car and it zips up the valley side super quick. Here's some snaps of the rooftops and of Pete checking the view from their new library, it's a really cool building.
The Museo de Antioquia was also brilliant, there was lots of beautiful art and scultpures from Colombian artists. Our favourite was Botero's work - loved the sculptures and cartoon like paintings - which was just as well because most of the museum and the square outside it was filled with his work. I thought this tubby horse was pretty cute!
We also took a trip to the Modern Art Museum but it didn't have a patch on the Antioquia - didn't look like it had been updated in a while. The saving grace was it had a good cafe next door where we got a yummy Menu del Dia for only 3 bucks - nice!
And today we took a trip to the Botanical Gardens which is like a tropical Kew Gardens, only free! It had lovely herb gardens, an orchid 'house', boat-loving igunas and beautiful butterflies! We also had a very special lunch at their restaurant 'In Situ'! Here's a snap of Pete about to tuck into an exotic looking French Onion Soup!
During our adventures we also checked out the world's biggest cathedral built souly with bricks (not so pretty but quite impressive), had a brilliant Spanish lesson (must do my homework!), met some of the loveliest Colombian people you could meet and discovered Crepes and Waffles Cafe. I recommend the Colombian tourist board add it to their next campaign - Amazing!
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