Locals Tour of Medellin

As part of its remarkable comeback story, Medellin´s metro system includes a cable car that reaches high up one of the mountains that surrounds the city.



For the price of admission to the subway - about 75 cents - one can ride up for a lovely view of Medellin and a peek at one of the neighborhoods that make up Colombia´s second city.

We alighted the cable car to have a look around yesterday afternoon. As ususal, many of the locals eyed us with great curioisity - not avarice, nort suspicion, just genuine, good-hearted curiosity. A couple of young men, Juan Carlos and Carmilo, asked us our names and where we were from. We chatted for a bit, and I gave them each a postcard from Washington, DC and some bracelets I had back from Otavalo, Ecuador. Then our new 12 year old friends insisted on giving us a tour of the brand new library in their barrio, very proud of this towering, hillside stone building, largely funded by the Spanish crown.



After the tour, the gentlemen walked us back to the cable car, and off we were back to central Medellin.