Manizales

Blogspot just told me I've reached my photo quota. So...sometime I'll figure out a way to keep sharing pictures in some sort of fun format.

Manizales is a few hours north of Cali, in the Central Andean Cordillera. It was a very very cool visit, aside from breaking my arm skateboarding (1st arm break!)

The city was littered with amazing commissioned art.

Silvia

Last four day weekend, after recovering from my birthday celebrations, Mel and I made it down to Silvia. It's a big town or a small city, bordering on a 18,000 hectare Indigenous Resguardo, where a huge Guambiano community thrives and has managed to keep its culture and lifestyle pretty well intact. It was beautiful, nestled amidst mountains and surrounded by rivers. I think we both got a lot out of being outside Cali, outside a city in general, and around such a cool climate and beautiful natural landscapes.

Piandamo welcomes you.

Little town en route to Silvia.

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Pretty much right off arrival we took an impromptu walk up the western mountainside, which proved to be the exact right thing to do.

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