8/3/2023 0 Comments Zona rosa ice skating![]() There are friendly, informative police all over the place. You can walk around the park, there are trails into the woods, tours on horseback, food stalls at the terminal park and gift stalls. The air gets cool, the wind picks up and the car starts swaying. Transfer – pay another $3 and go for a long stretch up the mountain to Avri park. The metro is the pride of the city.Īvri Park For a longer excursion take the metro line A to Avejedo and tranfer to cable cars going to Santo Domingo. For $.70 you can safely ride anywhere in the city with cable cars at the end of the tracks going up in the mountains transporting people to the poorer neighborhoods up the mountain. Medellin boasts a spectacular, spotless, elevated, metro system, free of drunks, panhandlers and graffiti. Then came the coffee boom and the industrialization. They were isolated in a valley between mountain chains for 400 years. ![]() The city was founded by the Jews and the Basque Spaniards who were escaping the inquisition of Spain. Common belief is that Paisas think they are better than the rest of Colombians. They’re known for being curious, clever people and good businessmen. Medellin is in the department of Antioquia situated and stretched for 25 kilomters through the narrow valley of Aburra between the high mountains ranges of the Central Cordillera. ![]() International flights arrive to the Jose Maria Cordova International airporteveryday. The city center is 28 kilometers from the airport and a taxi cab ride costs $25 or take the white city buses outside the city airport for only $5 for the 40 minute trip. There seem to be a lot more people who came to the city which has become a little more dangerous for tourists. Places like Plaza Botero, the showcase square of the town, there are more people hawking wares and more prostitutes street walking in the middle of the day. But during the covid the city seems to look a little dirtier and not as crisp as before. Tourism decreased somewhat but Medellin has become the second city in Colombia to see the most tourists following Bogota. Bogota received more than half of the visitors followed by Cartegena then Medellin. Visitors from the USA topped the list of visiting foreign nationals. In 2017 there were 3 million foreign visitors – a 13% increase from the year before according Colombia’s Trade Minsitry. In 2000, only 40,000 tourists came to Colombia (a big country twice the size of France). The city is safe, vibrant and very alive and well. He built libraries in poor barrios and the city metro which to this day is the pride of the city. He was a strong leader using American anti-drug money to finance some of the projects. He took on neighborhoods crowded with the homeless, drug dealers and prostitutes refurbished them, reconstructed the old town squares, moving the poor to better places where with more services and structures. “A former math teach elected on a program of law and order to stop the drugs, violence, revolution and bombings. It was a dark violent time when a new president, Alvaro Uribe, was elected in 2002,” one of the local tour guides told me. The FARC, formed in the year 2000 as an agricultural people’s party, has left the jungle, made peace with the government and is forming its own political party. ![]() Drugs and politics led the cities and country sides into a dark era of violence. The coffee boom and industrialization made Medellin a major city in Colombia. But Medellin wasn’t built on drug money as many people perceive. ![]() Medellin was the home and headquarters of the famous drug trafficker Pablo Escobar. Not too long ago rated the most dangerous city if the world due to fighting between drug cartels, agrarian backed revolutionary groups, paramilitary groups, the government and years of America’s war on drugs. ![]()
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