I guess from now on I'll have to work on my visualizing writing :-).
Last week I visited Salento, a little sleepy town (population 1500 ?) a good 8 hours busride from Bogota. It's located high in the mountains and you get there through curvy little roads that show you rough, green surroundings with the Colombian National Landmark, a palm tree that`s up to 35 meters high (the one you find on the 50.000 pesos bills).
The view is so different from anything I've ever seen, not only because of the palm tree that tower high above all other vegetation, but also because there seem to be not one single plane that's very large. To my primitive geological understanding, it seems as these are very young hills.The town itself is also constructed in the typical Calle/Carrerra square layout even when there`s only seven by seven streets. Because there is a fish-farm just up the river, you can get delicious fresh trout (trutcha) in every restaurant and when another traveller who came back here just to eat the fish insist on us coming along, we all end up in a nice little place and everyone orders a variation on the same main ingredient.
The centre of the village is a large square with some restaurants, a grocery-store and the police headquarters. All the buildings are painted in various colors, giving the whole square an almost fantasy-like appearance. From our hostel, called "The Plantation House" (even the locals use a Spanish pronounciation of the English name), there is a splendid view on the hills and I only have to walk 2 minutes down to feel completely surrounded by the birds, trees and ants (who's sting hurts).
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