buenos dias friends it is actually quite early right now where uh i am in the lobby of the hostel
that i am staying at here in medellin this is las patios one of the best rated
places in the city and i can concur it is pretty fabulous but what we are yes
well look at that guys i got my beautiful colombian breakfast here uh very excited
but what i have booked for today is a tour of one of the most popular day trips outside of medellin
which is guatape guatape is basically a resort town where they have a man-made
reservoir of these like beautiful lakes it is just like a stunning place and there's
also this huge rock which is like the main attraction of the city that you can you know
climb up and down get a great view of the city you can of course go for longer than one day but
i just figured with the ease of you know having a bus take me there and then take me back and
show me all the main attractions in one day i just thought that that would be the easiest way to go
all right friends we are at our first stop of the day which i guess is a replica town of
a place that used to be called el penyol and it's a super cute
very colorful uh little districts there's lots of little souvenir shops lots of cute cafes
and you have this beautiful uh view of the start of the valley and as i said before uh
the lake reservoir that you'll see is actually man-made they did make it as a
you know hydroelectric uh generator but it really is a unique place i've never seen a
kind of elevation changes like this with the lake flowing in and out through so many areas
well this is unlike anything i have ever seen before my friends
uh this huge rock is called la piedra and uh they're saying that it only takes 15 minutes
to get to the top with that massive staircase but uh i don't know about that one quick thing
i want to mention uh because i almost had a heart attack uh our guide said okay you know when you
buy your tickets you have to show your passport and your vaccine certificate and i was like what
nobody told me i had to bring my passport but thankfully they do take photocopies or
just showing it on your phone which i do have so thank god but just wanted to make a mention that
yeah if you're thinking of coming here and want to climb it you need those two things
well this is definitely one of the most unique views i have ever seen it is absolutely stunning
i guess this rock has actually been here for about 65 million years and geologists believe that it
was formed when tectonic plates clashed against each other there was a whole bunch of rock that
came up to the surface but this one was obviously the biggest it is 657 steps to get to the very top
here you definitely do feel the elevation but at the same time they really have uh modernized
things where they have like a little cafe you can get some ice cream have a beer just relax sadly
you are not allowed to fly drones up here which would be so cool because the view is absolutely
stunning but uh not to worry i did find some shots of this area on a stock site that i use so enjoy
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so guys we are in the town of guatempe it looks absolutely beautiful but before we get to explored
we are actually gonna do a boat ride on the water here and uh they did tell us that we can go
swimming today so i did bring my bathing suit but to be honest it's a little bit too chilly i think
all right friends we just got to downtown guatepay and it is such a scenic and you
know photogenic little town it's so colorful and apparently there's even like a story behind all of
the pictures that you'll see on the different houses like lamps i guess are one of the
emblems that are used a lot and my dad was saying that that kind of has to do with
christianity so we have been given about an hour to walk around the
town we can go to cafes wander around the streets there's little shops around here
overall i was told this is a very safe place for tourists to visit it definitely
you know would be fine to come here yourself you don't have to go on a tour but it is just nice if
you only had a day and want to see everything all at once it is a lot easier with a tour
look how lovely this is guys what a view at the top of guatepe just gonna have a little
coffee break i am really enjoying my time here and actually a little bit sad that i didn't
uh book a night or two here because i could have totally live streamed here like everybody
has their phone out it feels you know super safe and a much more relaxed vibe than a lot of places
that i've been to so now that i've walked around and seen how nice it is i'm a little bit sad that
we're going to be leaving after we grab some food but at least i can now suggest
to you guys that it would definitely be worth spending a couple of nights here
so
all right friends this brings us to the end of a fabulous fabulous day and as i mentioned
before i would have loved to stay three four five days here just because there is
actually a lot of other activities that you can do here it's super relaxing and as i mentioned before
it's also a very safe area but if you are short on time a day trip is also fantastic i loved
the tour that we did today and also just to mention if you did want to do the particular
tour i did it is through lost patios hostel it's their personal tour which goes only on tuesdays
and thursdays they do offer tours the other days of the week but they are with another company
and from my understanding it's like a huge bus of people and you don't get to do as many things
so i would recommend doing their personal tour because it was a really great time but let me
know in the comments let me know if any of you have been to guatape if you have any suggestions
uh because this is just such a beautiful place to visit so i hope you guys enjoyed the video
thank you so much for tuning in and as always keep being your own kind of beautiful bye guys
you