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Don't Meddle with Medellin Parque Botero We've just had a week in Medellin, now we arrived late at night after a long bus journey, the story of our lives. But we're relieved to have a nice apartment in a nice part of town. Sometimes it varies when you've booked something online. Nevertheless it was a lovely large apartment. Metropolitan Cathedral On our first day we went to the main square to go and see the metropolitan cathedral, statues etc. On our way to the square we seemed to go through the 2/3 block radius of motorbike shops, where they had their wares and such everywhere, pulling apart bits of bike on the side of the road, painting scuff marks on tyres black again. Less well off people raiding the bins of these motorbike people for more scraps to sell on. In fact we came across a whole market of re-claimed items a lot of which seemed to be one shoe. I hadn't particularly noticed a band of one legged people in town, but I did see a lot of peo...

San Pedro: Drier than an Armadillo’s Bumhole Valle de la Muerte So we left the Salt Plains in Uyuni and headed down the steep hill in the bus. Although San Pedro is still at quite the high altitude it was nothing compared to where we were, we probably dropped around 2000 metres. The whole experience of crossing the border had been a little weird. Not only had there been the extortion of the amount for an exit stamp in our passport, but we were on a bus filled with bleary eyed tourists, including a very sweary French man who seemed in a foul mood. Just as we’d got to the border the driver pulled into a layby and jabbered away at us all in Spanish. At which point to my amusement a few very panicked voices from the back went ‘Can someone translate please!’ So an Australian girl translated for the group of Slavic girls at the back. As it turns out Chile has ecological safeguards in a similar manner to Fiji and New Zealand , this means that a lot of food and various plants and...

Teresopolis The many fingers of Teresopolis We decided to have a break from the city and head in to the mountains for a few days staying at Teresopolis. Teresopolis is a small town that on a quick google search promised a number of fun sights to see, and of course a fun hike into the mountains. The first day we gathered our trusty satchel and headed to the information centre to get some information on how to enter the park and for a few things to do, we stopped at one of the trusty sights the fountain of Judith on the way. The fountain was quite Dutch in style, mostly porcelain tiles with a blue flowery nun on them. Lots of the local used this fountain to fill up their own water bottles. There was very little information at this location but we assume this saint made drinking water in a land where the tap water was bad. Perhaps she was the first to filter water with her stockings, perhaps she secretly boiled the water with her wrath behind her fount we will never know. ...