Medellin is a city of about four million people nestled in a valley. We landed at the airport on August 2 and took a taxi ride of about an hour to get to where we were staying our first night.
Our first impression was definitely about the cleanliness of the city, closely followed by how friendly and helpful everyone was. We asked someone for directions once, and two people who were standing nearby stepped in to offer their suggestions, as well.
We stayed in the neighborhood of Poblado that first night, very near the very happenin' Parque Lleras...an area full of restaurants and bars. The beer drinkers among us enjoyed stopping by the local brewpubs and sampling their beers -- which, I'm told, were very, very good. We then had a fantastic dinner at a southern-style restaurant, Humo.
Brent and I went out for a drink while David and Stephanie rested at home. It's not necessarily a cheap city, and a lot of the restaurants where we stopped had $10-15 cocktails on their menus. There is also a lot of variety, even within this very popular area, and we found 2x1 margaritas, which at $14,000 Colombian pesos worked out to a little over US$3.50 per drink.
For the rest of the week, we lived in a great two-bedroom apartment near the metro line -- and it was only about a 40-minute walk to the Parque Lleras area, anyway, which was a perfect delight for us.
Our first impression was definitely about the cleanliness of the city, closely followed by how friendly and helpful everyone was. We asked someone for directions once, and two people who were standing nearby stepped in to offer their suggestions, as well.
We stayed in the neighborhood of Poblado that first night, very near the very happenin' Parque Lleras...an area full of restaurants and bars. The beer drinkers among us enjoyed stopping by the local brewpubs and sampling their beers -- which, I'm told, were very, very good. We then had a fantastic dinner at a southern-style restaurant, Humo.
Brent and I went out for a drink while David and Stephanie rested at home. It's not necessarily a cheap city, and a lot of the restaurants where we stopped had $10-15 cocktails on their menus. There is also a lot of variety, even within this very popular area, and we found 2x1 margaritas, which at $14,000 Colombian pesos worked out to a little over US$3.50 per drink.
For the rest of the week, we lived in a great two-bedroom apartment near the metro line -- and it was only about a 40-minute walk to the Parque Lleras area, anyway, which was a perfect delight for us.
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