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Sabaneta is a nice, charming little town in Colombia. For some years, it’s part of the “Zona Metropolitana de Medellin” as Medellin grew and grew, it accumilated Sabaneta. Sabaneta nevertheless hasn’t lost its charm. The fondas – the little bars, where football is shown and usually men hang out watching a soccer game – are more typical then in any other part of Medellin. The life takes place around the main square, where every night some food stalls invite zou to have a snack. Here are some impressions using my Nikon D90

I can’t even remember when I had my last night in a tent… Must have been somewhere in Patagonia some years ago. Adriana is a nature-lover, so this weekend we finally had our first camping expirience. We went to “Piedra Blanca” a well accessible “reserva natural”. It’s just about an hours drive from our apartment. And it’s just going up, and up, and up. It’s about 900 metres above Medellin and the climate and scenery is comparable to the one in Bogota.

Enough said, here are some pics from the weekend…

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…