Medellin

Medellin is the traditional centre of drug cartels in Colombia. The government has recently cleaned up the place and with the killing of Pablo Escobar, the streets are more or less safe again.

Medellin has afforded building a modern Metro, developed science centres and with industrial and commercial interests, the city is quickly gaining terrain towards a pleasant and modern top-notch metropolis.

An interesting initiative is the introduction of the "Metrocable". As the city is located in a valley, the Metro is mainly going along the river (and not making it up to the villages on the hills), the Metrocable is a cablecar system with stations supposed to connect low-income neighbourhoods with the centre. The Metrocable was the main thing I wanted to see and experience on my detour to Medellin.











1. Medellin is also home to what probably is the most massive brick-church on the continent built with 1.2 million bricks

2. Medellin is the birth-place of Fernando Botero, featuring a wonderful museum with a vast collection of art.

3. The metro-cable

4. A metro-cable station