More Medellin pictures

Remember I was saying the Chiva bus in Ecuador was slightly inadequate? These are what real Chivas should look like!!



















Another form of "Campesino" (farmer) transportation from Santa Fé de Antioquia.

The Metro and Metro-cable (pronounced: metro-cablay)

El Penol de Guadape. This is a huge bullet shaped rock the is just sticking out of the earth. The "GI" written on the side is actually the beginning of GUADAPE, started 3 years ago and never completed.. not sure why. When you get to the top there is an amazing view over what looks like a lake district but is actually an artificial recervoir, or in other words, the tops of mountains as opposed to individual islands.... and don't anyone give me any of that "...but islands are tops of mountains" crap!!

Famous Colombian artist Francisco Botero's Birds of Peace, Parque San Antonio, Medellin. The original one was once a bright, plump canary. Today, it sits charred with its body blasted open and jagged edges exposing its hollow core. The second bird, a perfect duplicate, stands tall (at Botero's request) beside the original as a statement against the guerrillas who bombed the first Bird of Peace statue in 1996.

Santa Fé de Antioquia, 1.5 hr drive from Medellin. Part of which is through a tunnel lasting 6 minutes!!! Not comfortable.