good morning guys from la pompe and nothing a little bit of Colombian coffee and we're
gonna go sit on the hand so with top is about a two-hour bus ride from Medellin
and we are here today mostly just to get away from these cities but also we're about to go
on a hike to el pinyon which is this huge rock formation in the middle of nowhere
okay so we're just getting breakfast really quick and wednesday's meal was
only two dollars and include fruit papaya omelet 2% coffee and juice and then my meal
was about two 70s are still very cheap got an egg some nice and beans are eight bass
and cheese chorizo sausage some crackers and then some hot chocolate on the side
we're taking it to time into the wrong
and it's right
but peels away
welcome to the rock for the best view in the world so that's kind of their slogan for this
rock here but supposedly the view isn't the best in the world but we're gonna find out
we're about to climb so the indigenous people that lived here the Tommy they
actually worshiped this rock and I think I understand that because look around at
the rest of the landscape there's nothing like it looks like something put it here
so we're at the base of the rock right now is so surreal it's just huge and
it's the only thing like it around here the rest of the areas I mean there are
some hills but it's just this one huge granite rock formation it's incredible
so this is what it's like climbing up just supposed to steep stairs
look at all these plants that are growing up on the side of the Rocky
so just started climbing and you can see on the way up they number
these stairs every once in a while so this is 150 and they're actually
650 stairs altogether so we have quite a ways to go let's do it
it's once you get halfway up there's a shrine to the Virgin Mary
they a Virgin Mary here and then halfway up so this is the view from halfway up still
have upper fall so even just climbing these steep stairs is a little bit scary so it's
really hard to imagine in the 1950 is when they finally climb this thing it was just a family
just a dad and his two boys and they claimed it putting just wooden sticks and boards up along
in a crevice in this rock and they made it up okay we made it to the top here's the leader
and now we're going to go up to the highest point here there's a little castle overlooked
okay we're on top of an opinion now and this is the view that you've been waiting for
when you look at a map of Qatar hey you see that it's just this city is
surrounded by this very oddly shaped light and it's really cool that finally when you
come up here you can see that you can see all the lake and how it spreads across the city
another really interesting fun fact about this place is when they finally climbed it in the
1950s they found a species of plant that they have never found anywhere before just living on
the top of this rock I'm not sure which of these plants it is or I would show you but
here are some plants maybe it's one of these special species maybe special species perhaps
so when you get to the base of the pinyon there's a little looks like a little town
but it's pretty much like ten souvenir shops little restaurant cafes well there's everything
here that you could want to buy as a souvenir a bunch of rock souvenirs what's personally I
think are very cool and they're cheap now that we're done without pinyon we just want to show
you guys a little bit of this colorful town of guapi it's a really interesting
thing that we're seeing all over la popa is this wall art it's on all of the buildings so
you see that all these buildings are very colorful but a really fascinating part is
these little designs and I think some of them are meaningful like you'll see like look at this one
most of them not bay is super colorful like this but this is one of the cooler
smaller cobblestone roads here look at the powers of these buildings
the town seems to be obsessed with their Rock LP neon you'll
see that carved out of a lot of these facades here
so what happy is situated around this lake here and I'm guessing at different parts of
the year this would be more beautiful I think the water is low right now and so
it's exposed all of this dirt and soil and rock but I could see how this could be a beautiful
view maybe at another time of year you can see a bunch of little cruise ships little
yachts down here and then some pedal boats paddle boats there's a Disney jr. cruise
and so it looks like it could be a lot of fun but maybe not right now in February yeah this
isn't the season in February so if you come to go poppy don't expect something beautiful when
it comes to the water you'll just have to walk around the cute little colorful town instead
and this is the colorful center of what okay say goodbye to qua Papa and we are on our way - do
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