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@sergioflorez great photos from Las Palmas.. thanks for sharing.. my first experience arriving in Medellín via airport and that road into centro, was breath taking at every corner on the descent. Another great route was out to Santa Fe. Surrounded by epic mountains, I never managed to hit the road into Bello, I reckon that would be very dramatic too. Also the road up to La Catedral (where P Escobar resided) via Envigado
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I want to eat chicharrón at La Gloria de Gloria in Envigado before I leave. I’m definitely getting a geared bike next time I visit. I want to reach the top of las palmas for once and have a better survival rate climbing in the exterior.
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I miss food like that.. @sergioflorez
visited a large cow shed, converted into a simple steakhouse (parilla) open kitchen in the middle, this was on the outskirts of Medellín from memory. Nothing tasted that good in my experience here in the UK nor in Europe.. I can't compare with Brazilian and Argentine equivalents, because i haven't visited those countries. but make no mistake, South America beats North America in my mind. I wonder whether it was a combination of altitude, good beef stock, good cattle farming, good butchery, well seasoned before cooking..
anyway, it's making me hungry again..
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El Dorado is sick! Bye Colombia (shows pics of José María Cordoba)
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Hippopotamuses, not hippopotamoses:
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Jeez, we had hippos in London like 9 ice ages ago, the Amazon and the Congo were once connected into one mighty river system. Perhaps Snr. Escobar just wanted to reintroduce them. How destructive can a hippo be? Chomping on grass and wallowing / defacating in a river or lake.
Okay deadly encounters with humans I accept, not exactly biodiversity though is it. Great bodyguards come to think about it, surround your fortress with the most deadly mammal responsible for more human deaths than any other from Africa.
It was humans that wiped out the late Pleistocene megafauna
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Jeez, we had hippos in London like 9 ice ages ago
Now there's only one left ... :)
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Do I need a booster to enter Colombia? I have the double moderna shot and vaccine card is still in tact.
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hi @sergioflorez if you are travelling from the UK advice is here..
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/colombia/entry-requirements
no mention of booster, as long as your vaccinations are WHO approved and occurred more than 14 days ago. I hope this helps.
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Via USA
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I bombed las palmas from the top. Swapped 130 for a 140 positive rise. I have burns on foot and gastrocnemius* from using the foot brake. I need a geared bike with brakes for the next trip.
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from using the foot brake
I guess you don’t have a video of this? I can picture cartoon-like smoke coming off your feet.
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lol I do http://youtu.be/ajS8C3wmUxI
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Dios Mio! You should get in touch with Johnny Knoxville, you’ve got a bright future :)
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Thank you! Medellin was great. Can’t wait to go back
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@sergioflorez thanks for sharing your video, Las Palmas descent is epic enough, but doing that without brakes, gawd.. heal up quick
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Thanks! Gears and brakes next trip. I’ve been saying that the last two trips. Wake up early go to some place like Santa Barbara. Go up Santa Elena. The only time I left Medellin was to ride mtb in La Ceja. I ended up getting really sick. Not sure if that was because of the altitude. I saw Maria Luisa Calle climbing before reaching La Ceja in Team Medellin kit. ** I forgot I rode the regional to Caldas and back
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great photos @sergioflorez..
Maria Luisa Calle awesome cyclist and La Ceja (eyebrow town, lol) that is quite a climb
to reach 2200m, from Medellin @ 1500m over 45km
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Las Palmas round 2 made it to the 6th retorno. 47x15 it’s all I have to work with. Again, the downhill amazing. *the token upside down pic welp
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