I got the whole room to myself

Calle 10 Hostel

Common areas

Right on Tenth Street, 10 minutes from El Poblado Metro Station

The downside of being convenient is the cars are quite noisy

Jugo de naranja

Fruit stalls near the metro station

Santo Domingo Metrocable station

Blue sky + white clouds = perfect picture

Margaret Leng Tang

Traveling around the city is easy and quick with the Metro system

The metrocable is a large gondola scaling the mountainside

Floor plan of new homes

Me @ Metrocable K line

Parque Biblioteca Espana

Metrocable Line L to Parque Arvi

Kinda like favelas in Rio, Brazil

Medellin is set in a valley running south to north

Line L does not serve communal areas

It is a tourist-oriented line which is connected to Parque Arvi

FF @ Metrocable Line L

It takes 14 minutes to ascend to El Tambo with no intermediate stations

Did I take the metrocable to heaven?

Bigger gf smaller bf is the norm in Colombia

Free bike rental to expore Parque Arvi

So pretty

The countryside appeal of the lush green fauna

Many hiking trails around here with free guide

The metrocable station @ Parque Arvi

Jump

Whole metrocable for us

Metrocable Line J is expected to develop tourism in the rural areas around Lake Guarne

Took a lot of photos to kill time

FF @ Metrocable

Finally going downhill

Look

Medellin is the second largest city in Colombia

Downtown Medellin with highrises on the left

Line K is part of the public transportation system

Santo Domingo Station

Rough neighborhood for tourist at night

Santo Domingo Station

Line K was the initial line that was built and was first opened in 2004

Donkey uphill before the metrocable

What is she making?

Some kind of flour

Ramshackle brick houses with scrap metal roofs

An ultramodern, giant, distinctive black library donated by the King of Spain

The city sprawls up the sides of mountains on either side

Me @ top of a hill overlooking Medellin

Hip Colombian teenager

Medellin nestled in a valley surrounded by the Andes mountains

Cute but dirty doggie

Medellin has really undergone a transformation in recent years

Planetario de Medellin

Freshwater Aquarium inside the Parque Explora

Metro

Medellin signature logo

Jardin Botanico

Palacio de la Cultura

El Desafio de la Raza

Parque Berrio

Parque de Berrio is in the heart of town

Cellphone accessories store, just like in CN

Iglesia de la Veracruz

Giant Botero sculptures

Man on Horse, bronze, 1992

Fernando Botero Angulo is a Colombian figurative artist

His works feature a figurative style called by some *Boterismo*

Botero depicts women, men, animals, daily/still life, historical event and the natural world in general

With exaggerated and disproportionate volumetry

Accompanied by fine details of scathing criticism, irony, humor, and ingenuity

Museo de Antioquia

Plaza Botero holds several large sculptures just in front of the museum

Woman with fruit

El problema del petroleo y la energia, 1936

Sculptures of Fernando Botero

Palacio de la Cultura

The Colombian family, 1972

Mrs Rub No. 4

Rosa, 1973

Pedro, 1974

Visit of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to Medellin, Colombia

The House of Amanda Ramirez

Woman with bow

Still Life, 1977

Woman in Front of a Window, 1996

Hand, 1996

Adam & Eve, 1999

Bullfight

Belcony, 1996

Botero is an abstract artist in the most fundamental sense

A Couple

Mother Superior, 1994

Choosing colors, shapes, and proportions based on intuitive aesthetic thinking

Fabio Escabar Dead, 2008

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why.

You adopt a position intuitively;

only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

Contemporary works from other artists

Town in Europe?

This is art!

A nicely organized museum

Work from other artists

Marco Tobon Mejia in the workshop

Modern art

Contemporary art

Just like my room!

Oscar Munoz photographs

Huge space for the exhibition

Digital art

Quite interesting

So many police (in yellow vest)

Centro Comercial Palacio Nacional

Transformed into a shopping mall with more than 200 budget shops

A palatial building from 1925

Lingerie store

Carrera 50, wholesales shopping area

Colonial style building

Parque de las Luces

Ferrocarril de Antioquia

Francisco J Cisneros

Government headquarters

Momumento a la Raza

Park of Lights, 31 lights pole light up at night

Espejo de agua con flor, Plaza de la libertad

Al Patio, Mexian restaurant

Overlooks town, great outdoors

Me @ Al Patio

Dinner with a view

Medellin @ night