Guatape & the Piedra de Guatape

As I mentioned in the last post, on our last day in Medellin we did a day trip out to Guatape. A two hour bumpy bus ride got us to this small mountain town that our Swiss friends recommended to us. The main draw to this town is a giant rock (La Piedra de Guatape, the Stone of Guatape) that you can climb up and get a great view of the surrounding area. We had no idea what to expect, but we were not disappointed. I´ll let the pictures do the talking. (We can´t find the pictures from Keegan´s phone so there are some gaps here, if we end up finding them I´ll add them later.)

The town itself was adorable. Everything was brightly colored and the food was delicous and cheap

Really dug the town, wished we could have stayed another day in fact.

Like every good South American town, it had a gorgeous church in a plaza

Then, on to the main attraction. The giant rock. 706 steps to the top!

The stairs twisted and turned all the way up, it was really impressive and slightly terrifying

Finally, the top. 360 degrees of stunningly landscape. Bridges connected a lot of the islands

But many were totally untouched.

Really happy (and sweaty) gringos

We didn´t want to leave, but we had to catch the bus back to Medellin to make our morning flight up to the Carribean town of Cartagena.