If you want nice restaurants and pub crawls this is your place! If we would be end of our trip and I would have tons of money left, I would want to stay two more weeks here only trying the cafes and restaurants. But cos we are not and we have gone over the budget already, we only indulged few of the amazing restaurants.
Verdeo, oh my goodness! Set menu of the day, you don't even know what you are getting and I thought I was in heaven :) and the place was so cozy as well! So many ice cream and proper sundae places for dessert. Yesterday we met Maria (from Ciudad Perdida trek) and went to eat in Lentajes, another delicious vegeterian place. It was actually really hard to find a place open because of Easter, almost every restaurant was closed.
We got the last bus tickets from Bogota to here and we barely found a hostel to stay. Arcadia Hostel was already fully booked, five people sleeping on the floor. It was too cramped so we went like ten different hostels to look for another one, all full. Eventually after two hours of internet search we found one, jihuu!! Wouldn't have believed how busy it really gets on Semana Santa, and mostly with Colombians. Tried to get in to Parque Arvi, but already at noon they had closed the gates cos limit had gone over. Next day we went again, nine in the morning and still had to wait more than an hour. Ridicilous. Cable car ride top of the hills and poorer areas was so cool, walks around forbidden paths and picnic area along the river was a very nice day trip. Got sunburned again :(
We didn't sign for Pablo Escobar tour or went to Guatepe, way way too busy for those. Maybe when we come back from the volunteer project. Definitely could spent few more days in here, ride in the metro (only metro line in Colombia), eat some more ice cream and visit few more parks, maybe do paragliding.. It was very nice just to relax for few days, enjoy a Colombia vs Bolivia football game (these people take it seriously) and catch up with people we have met earlier on this trip :)
Verdeo, oh my goodness! Set menu of the day, you don't even know what you are getting and I thought I was in heaven :) and the place was so cozy as well! So many ice cream and proper sundae places for dessert. Yesterday we met Maria (from Ciudad Perdida trek) and went to eat in Lentajes, another delicious vegeterian place. It was actually really hard to find a place open because of Easter, almost every restaurant was closed.
We got the last bus tickets from Bogota to here and we barely found a hostel to stay. Arcadia Hostel was already fully booked, five people sleeping on the floor. It was too cramped so we went like ten different hostels to look for another one, all full. Eventually after two hours of internet search we found one, jihuu!! Wouldn't have believed how busy it really gets on Semana Santa, and mostly with Colombians. Tried to get in to Parque Arvi, but already at noon they had closed the gates cos limit had gone over. Next day we went again, nine in the morning and still had to wait more than an hour. Ridicilous. Cable car ride top of the hills and poorer areas was so cool, walks around forbidden paths and picnic area along the river was a very nice day trip. Got sunburned again :(
We didn't sign for Pablo Escobar tour or went to Guatepe, way way too busy for those. Maybe when we come back from the volunteer project. Definitely could spent few more days in here, ride in the metro (only metro line in Colombia), eat some more ice cream and visit few more parks, maybe do paragliding.. It was very nice just to relax for few days, enjoy a Colombia vs Bolivia football game (these people take it seriously) and catch up with people we have met earlier on this trip :)
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