What a wonderful place to visit – a bit of a mission getting to Salento from Medellin – we had to wait an hour for a cycling race to finish and our weekend bus meant a 7 hour journey ended up taking 10 hours. But in the end we got to our countryside hostel without any problems. Here we encountered nothing but friendliness – we were overwhelmed by how genuine everyone was – the countryside was just gorgeous. It was the weekend so Salento was full of people from the nearby city of Armenia who were there to enjoy the food (trout) and sit by the main square drinking well into the evening.
Our hostel was run by volunteers so though they were lovely it was all a bit hap-hazard – we even had to change rooms during our stay as a favour to them. But we met some wonderful Slovakian boys (5 boys travelling rapidly through Colombia over 16 days). We bumped into them at the hostel, then later again at the Coffee Plantation, and then enjoyed their company drinking at the hostel til 1am – and yes, Bernard actually went to bed before I did!!! Would you believe it, but we even bumped into them a week later on a local bus to Tayrona National Park. Impresive. I think these infectious young (but mature) men really topped off our Salento experience with their good humor. We even managed to catch up with some other friends we keep bumping into along South America.
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