Distance Cartago - Cali: 190 km, 3 hours on the bus, cost: 7 pounds. My host Wilber picked me up from the station and we took a taxi to his home which he shares with a big family. I met his parents, brothers and sisters (not all of them, he has five brothers and three sisters, and they have children too...). The family is very nice although it's a kind of family which makes children without considering much what will happen next, for example how to feed the children?... Wilber is a well-known salsa teacher and we went dancing yesterday to a place called Tin Tin Deo. The music was good but it is more a spot for socialising. I was dancing with Wilber and other people but I wasn't very impressed. Two people approached me, one said that he saw me in the centre of Medellin a month ago and another said that we had met at a party in Medellin ha ha ha... Then I remembered that it was the guy who was teaching me Cali salsa steps at the Friday party...
Well, the place was good although my expectations were higher. Today we are going to dance again, with many people I met yesterday. I also met a Polish guy who has been living in Cali for eight months now. He lives in a hostel but he doesn't pay because he helps to build up the hostel's website. He is a kind of a nightmare Polish person you can meet, talking all the time where he was travelling in the world and what he experienced, with the emphasis on: me, me, me...
I thought I was living in an unpleasant district with the family but when I got to the centre of Cali I understood that the whole city is unpleasant. I don't like it here (Cali in the picture). However, I am going to stay in the city longer as it looks like there is a lot of dancing going on. I didn't like Santa Marta on my first day and then I had a fantastic time.
Here are my pictures from Cartago and Pereira:
Cartago, Pereira
