Living in Medellin, I always wondered. What happened to the relatives of Pablo Escobar? After seeing “Sins of my father” all questions were answered.
Living in Medellin, your are confronted with the dark past of the city. Family, friends & clients ask a lot about the safety in Medellin and about the drug cartel. (In case you haven’t heard my answer: Medellin has totally transformed and is one of the nicest city to live in in South America).
The 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 want to jump back into old times, you can watch this interview of Pablo Escobars photographer:
But the movie “Sins of my father” is not just about the past, but the present. How is it like to be the son of one of the most evil persons in history? What does his son feel for the crimes committed by his father? (something similar German people of my age are confronted also corning crimes of our grandfathers).
Lots of times I get asked? Why on earth are you living in Colombia? And I always will answer: “because of its people, they always seem in a happy mood and are soooo nice”.
For those, that won’t believe it, here´s the statistical proof. Behind Costa Rica Colombia is teh second happiest place on earth:
Work was intensive these last weeks, lots of interviews, new people to train. etc… So Adriana and me took a long weekend to the Caribbean. A German pal opened a small, but beautiful Lodge close to Capurgana, which is close to the border to Panama. To get there we took the long way… 9 hours from Medellin to Turbo by bus. From there about three hours on a fast boat to Acandi. The boat was jumping so heavily and just locals seem to have the privilege to get the calm seats in the back, so our backs really hurted really badly. On the spot we decided to fly back to Medellin from Capurgana (which doesn’t have a street connection to the rest of Colombia…). From Acandi it was just another 30 minutes to get to Aguacate Bay.
We stayed at Bahia Lodge, a nice Lodge run by Lothar. He had been working two years to get the Lodge running, but recently in December he opened to the public. It’s located at a beautiful liltte bay with a nice beach. Depending on the year the waves get so big, so swimming sometimes isn’t possible.
From Bahia Lodge it’s about one hours walk to Capurgana and in all 2,5 hours to get to “Playa Miel”, already Panama.
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