Salento Trip

Hello Readers!

I’m Mayra Alejandra, I’m studying Industrial Engineering at Icesi University in Cali. I like to travel but I haven’t had the opportunity to travel as much that I would have liked. In spite of that, I have traveled to some places and I have enjoyed it. But I’m a person that I don’t like to go to somewhere without have a plan of the place where I stay and how the conditions of this. Because, one occasions my family and I, went to a place that in the moment I forgetter, I don’t know how told to my father, that in that place the weather was cold, so we only packed cold clothes and when we arrived, it was the hottest weather in the world, I swear!!, so from that day we only have a plan and we have never recalled that guy. However, I like to meet other cultures and different traditions because these experiences enrich and permit me expand the vision that I have of the life and other people. But I only have one problem, I don’t like to eat all kind of food, but I can try to prove it.

I’m writing this blog because a want to tell you about a experience that I had in my country Colombia, that is a place where you can found a wonderous variety, with beautiful landscapes and kind people. In this occasion, I going to talk about a travel that I have the opportunity to do and the experience that I had in this place. Two year ago, I went to Salento, a town of department of Quindío. In Salento you can found different things to do and meet.

Now, I’m going to tell you about my vacations in this town. I went in July, because in that time all of us were on vacations, this was a trip to almost three hours from Cali to Salento, we arrived to Salento and it was a beautiful town, it had colorful and colonial houses, we arrived in lunch time, so we started to find a good restaurant to eat, is very common to find in all of Salento’s menus trout, there are fried trout, breaded trout, trout au gratin, soup trout… trout and more trout, with different accompaniment, later went we finish the lunch, we started to look for a comfortable, pretty and cheap hotel, we didn’t spend a lot of time looking, because in that place, almost all of the hotel are good, we find a hotel near to the plaza, later to leave the packed in the bedrooms, we went to the viewpoint where we could see the mountains and a beautiful landscape. Other thing that we did was ride horse at night. But before we ate some ice cream, and played pool. Salento have many shop, you can find different kind of cold clothes (jacket, sweeter, gloves, etc), that because Salento is a cold town, went the ride finish we come back to the hotel. The next day, we say good bye to Salento and we went to Valle del Cocora.