Trip to Pablo Escobars Hacienda

November 6th, 2008 | Colombia, Personal, Travel, english

Last weekend Adriana and me had a great trip to Doradal, it’s a place about 3 hours drive from Medellin. The place is famous for it’s Hacienda Napoles, 20 years ago the hangout of Pablo Escobar. They say, it used to be the biggest zoo in South America.

It’s really a great trip. On one hand it’s bizarre, you know, that this guy has killed thousands of people, made Colombia suffer for so many years and left a negative image that Colombia still has to battle untill today. And then you get to his Hacienda and they made a "Jurassic Park" out of it. The entry is about 6 USD, you get to see old artefacts of Escobars live like his own colloseum, the ruins of his house, the leftover from his cars and most interestingly the Hippos he imported from Africa and survived until today.

That all is combined with a Zoo. that didn’t seem that interesting to me and a sculpture Park of Dinosaurs. It’s well done, as they put a "sound ambiance" into the Park of growling dinosaurs ..

Now some Videos (archive) and some photos of the trip…

National Georpahic: Pablo Escobar’s Hippos:

Pablo Escobar – at Hacienda Napoles

Entrances to the entrance ticket - looks like Jurrasic Park .. and even more Hippo's, once imported by Escobar in the 80's - survided untill today Gustavo Gaviria's swimming pool, original but remodeled Sweet little Hippo Dinosaurs at Hacienda Napoles the rotten car collection ruins of a once glorious Finca lots of treasure seekers tried to find their treasure, no successfull operation is known untill today Pablo Escobars bed room at the Finca

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#1 Sins of my father — kiwitz.com on 01.11.10 at 22:41: [...] history of the drug cartel always fascinated me, so I visited Hacienda Napoles, the “Catedral”, the graveyard of Escobar and the place where he was murdered. If your [...]