When we arrived, Orlando phoned his University friend Jorge who was going to put us up. Unfortunately there was no space in his house any more as a lot of family members came to the carnival, so his aunt kindly agreed to host us.
On the same day we met Jorge's family and we visited the city. It's not overpopulated as Cali and there were not too many people at the carnival so I sighed with relief.
At night we went to the main square. That day was a "painting day", everyone had to paint their faces and arm themselves with "carioca" - a big bottle with white spread foam. Everyone was shooting the foam in everyone's faces to the point that people got wet and dirty, and the temperature is quite low in Pasto all year round due to the city's altitude. After being bombarded with paints and foam (in the picture), we went dancing to Andean music, very popular in this part of Colombia and in Ecuador.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean_music
Pasto is situated very close to the Ecuadorian border and there is a big influence from Ecuador in the city. Dancing was a lot of fun and afterwards we went to a pub where we met Jorge's friends. Everyone was very drunk to the point that some men were falling off the stools. There was more dancing going on which I enjoyed but I really didn't like that everyone was so drunk. They were buying a very sweet and strong "wine" which tasted exactly like gripex to me. I drank it previously in Quito and I hated it as much as I hate gripex :) This is what the people drink to get wasted quickly and cheap.
