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I landed in Medellin on the night of December the 29th at 2 in the morning. I was eager to get to a hostel and see the city and other travelers but I also had hundreds of dollars worth of gear on me including laptop, dslr and satnav in three large bags and didn't trust it at a hostel. So I got a hotel where I could get a room with a locking door until I could meet up with a friend in the city the next morning and lock it all up at his apartment. I was exhausted and had surreal taxi ride through through thick jungle foliage and thicker fog to a small Hotel outside the city called Case Mosaica (add link). Casa Mosiaca had a cool old farm house feel and was covered in hand paited ceramic tiles.
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The next day the hotel arranged a ride to the city. When the car popped out of the hills of Santa Ellana outside the city to make the descent into Medellin I got one of the craziest city views I have ever seen in my life. The hills rise up to 6000 ft over the city and you can see Medellin end to end from the top.
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I dropped a bag of clothes off at the Tiger Paw hostel in the Foreigner heavy El Poblado neighborhood (more than 50% foreigners) and took my bags of riding gear and gadgets to my friend's apartment in the south of the city. He helped me get setup with a Colombian sim card and we ate a traditional colombian meal of carrot soup, rice and a pork chop. We went back to El Poblado that night, went bar hopping and did some shots of the local licquor `aguardiente` which tastes like ouzo.
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We stayed out until about three and I went to pee in an alleyway at the end of the night when a police motorcycle with to cops pulled up behind me and told me that the alleyway was not a bathroom. The had me put my hands up on a wall and grabbed my wallet straight out of pocket to `check my id` and it was missing a $100 when I got back. It seemed pretty steep given that people were blatanly selling large volumes of cocaine in the street less then a block away but I'm sure they had already paid their bribes. Not much I could do and I was happy no to have had anything worse happen so I went back to the hostel and passed out.
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title:  "First Stop: Medellin"
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I landed in Medellin on the night of December the 29th at 2 in the morning. I was eager to get to a hostel and see the city and other travelers but I also had hundreds of dollars worth of gear on me including laptop, dslr and satnav in three large bags and didn't trust it at a hostel. So I got a hotel where I could get a room with a locking door until I could meet up with a friend in the city the next morning and lock it all up at his apartment. I was exhausted and had surreal taxi ride through through thick jungle foliage and thicker fog to a small Hotel outside the city called Case Mosaica (add link). Casa Mosiaca had a cool old farm house feel and was covered in hand paited ceramic tiles.
<br>
<br>
The next day the hotel arranged a ride to the city. When the car popped out of the hills of Santa Ellana outside the city to make the descent into Medellin I got one of the craziest city views I have ever seen in my life. The hills rise up to 6000 ft over the city and you can see Medellin end to end from the top.
<br>
<br>
I dropped a bag of clothes off at the Tiger Paw hostel in the Foreigner heavy El Poblado neighborhood (more than 50% foreigners) and took my bags of riding gear and gadgets to my friend's apartment in the south of the city. He helped me get setup with a Colombian sim card and we ate a traditional colombian meal of carrot soup, rice and a pork chop. We went back to El Poblado that night, went bar hopping and did some shots of the local licquor `aguardiente` which tastes like ouzo.
<br>
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We stayed out until about three and I went to pee in an alleyway at the end of the night when a police motorcycle with to cops pulled up behind me and told me that the alleyway was not a bathroom. The had me put my hands up on a wall and grabbed my wallet straight out of pocket to `check my id` and it was missing a $100 when I got back. It seemed pretty steep given that people were blatanly selling large volumes of cocaine in the street less then a block away but I'm sure they had already paid their bribes. Not much I could do and I was happy no to have had anything worse happen so I went back to the hostel and passed out.
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