bonnie & clyde

Bogota turned out to be amazing! We stayed 9 days, but we went two days to a little colonial town, Villa Leyva, a lot sunnier and more quiet than Bogota, very nice! On our return to Bogota, Camillo`s parents had prepared a typical Colombian dinner, ajiaco, and had invited some of Camillo's friends because it was his last evening in Colombia before going to Montpellier, we will miss him and Carolina! The next day we moved to our next family in Bogota , Alejandra's mother Yolanda and her brother Sergio. The people here are so nice!
I went to the hairdressers, to curl my hair, exciting, but... the result is not very flattering, I look like a sheep, or also like Baby from Dirty Dancing! But that did not spoil our evening, we went for giant pizzas with Sergio, it's incredible how much the people eat here, they even have pizzas with nutella (with cheese and everything, disgusting!). After the pizzas we went dancing with a friend of Alejandra, Vallenato, kind of difficult for us to dance on but the Colombian women know how to shake their asses and (fake) boobs!
The next day we went sightseeing with Yolanda, to Montserrat, in order to get a great view of Bogota! In the evening we went dancing with Sergio and his friends, to a fantastic club, which is in fact an old theater. The decoration was incredible, all the staff was dressed up like freaks, and they had transvestite shows on the stage. The music was really great so we stayed dancing until late!
The next morning was more painful, we had to get up for the busride to Manizales.
The busride was beautiful, we drove through the Zona Cafetera, all greenery, with banana trees and coffee plants and all kinds of colourfull fruit trees. Manizales itself turned out to be very ugly, so the next day we did a day trip to Salaminas, a little town in the zona Cafetera, which was gorgeous. The next day we headed towards Medellin, Colombia's second biggest town, which is very very nice! We called David, a Colombian friend who used to live in Sevilla with us, and met with him and all his family and friends at night on a terrace. Then the young people went partying, and off course we joined them to a nice more alternative salsa bar, where they had a live jam session and where everybody was dancing in a very eccentric manner. We had a great time!
The next day we met with David his stephmother Camilla and his sister Natalia, to have lunch, the typical Bandeja paisa! (lots of meat, tice, banana, arepa and beans, very nice). Yesterday we went sightseeing. The metro here is above the ground, so you can see the whole of the city going from one end of the line to another. That way, you also drive through the poorer areas, so you have a better idea of the city. We took the cable cars to the top of the mountains, to have some nice views of Medellin, The center of Medellin is very hectic and poor, while the Zona Rosa is very rich and chique. At night we met with another friend here, Nicolas, whom we met at the beginning of our trip in Argentina. We went to a rock concert together with him and all of his friends, which was on a square and was for free, and he went to buy Tequila and Aguardiente, it turned out to be a cosy evening again!
Tonicht we are heading to Cartagena, the playas!