Dancing Feat – Chapter 14

The Latin Brothers’ Las Caleñas Son Como Las Flores (Cali Women are Like Flowers). And they are. Assuming that the flowers in question are scantily clad and can dance well:

A rainy day in Medellin:

The metro:

Metro

You must know this. You’ll recognise it – I promise you. Well, I semi-promise you. It’s probably the best known tango track of all time. Por Una Cabeza by Carlos Gardel and Alfredo Le Pera. This is a modern rendition as performed on the Tango Project:

I really don’t know my merengue, but here’s something that’s kind of silly and very danceable, which is exactly how I like my merengue:

And here’s a list of someone’s top ten merengues of all time.

Botero statues in downtown Medellin:

Botero

The road out of Medellin winds upwards, like an upwardly winding road:

Winding road

Sluice mining for gold in the hillside town of Marmato:

Coffee Hacienda in Caldas department, in Colombia’s coffee zone:

Pressing on:

Rain and gloves

Obligatory shots of Salento, a splendid little town which is the tourist hub of the coffee zone:

Filandia, land of the telenovela Cafe, Con Aroma de Mujer, and also of this amazing countryside:

Filandia panorama

And of this rather foreboding creature:

Big bird

And here is an adorable dog, just for balance:

Doggie

Emerald souvenirs in Bogota:

Emerald bus

I’d link to an episode of Cafe, Con Aroma de Mujer but they keep getting removed from Youtube for the perfectly reasonable reason that the copyright belongs to someone else.

And this is the original, Colombian version of Ugly Betty (Yo Soy Betty, La Fea):

The iconic bridge in Pereira, which we went over a few times, and not just through incompetence:

Bridge in Periera

Welcome to Popayan – please blaspheme quietly. And not here:

Hose

The White City:

White City


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