South America

Saturday, Day 1:  First head to the Botero Museum. Located right in downtown Candelaria, this free museum is a great place to start. There are over 100 works by Colombian artist Fernando Botero, as well as many other interesting painting and sculptures to peruse. We loved the larger-than-life Botero paintings, and spent about 30 minutes strolling through the place. For a bonus, it’s a beautiful building with a good view from the second floor too; from the second floor you can see a beautiful garden courtyard, and you can even see Mount Monserrate off in the distance. The museum…

Having limited time in Medellin, we decided to book a full day tour to the colorful town of Guatape.  We booked the Viator tour that was $30USD each, and totally worth the money. We started our day by meeting in Parque del Poblado plaza, which was a quick walk from our hostel, and then stopped to pick up the rest of our tour group at Hotel Nutibara.  While we waited for the rest to load on the bus, we were given about 20 minutes to wander around Botero Plaza to see all the Botero Statues. From there, we drove…

We booked a paragliding experience through “Paragliding Medellin” and the Colombian paragliding pioneer “Ruben Fly”.  That morning we woke up and made our way to the San Javier Station. We rode the Metro Cable Car up to La Aurora and our driver met us at the station about 15 minutes later.  We got into his car (not the marked van as advertised on their website), but then had to wait for another couple who was supposed to be there when we were. After waiting another 20 minutes or so, we were finally given the go ahead to make our…