Medellin is a Colombian city with a small town feeling to it. The outlying neighbourhoods climb the slopes on each side of the valley basin and when I get lost at night their lights help me find my way, glittering beacons in the dark.
That’s about as beautiful as these areas get though as they are also the poorest neighbourhoods where i’m repeatedly warned not to visit.
The poorest families live up there and the refugees from the civil war, taking over whatever piece of land they can and erecting primitive huts.
Colombia is full of surprise and wonderment.
They barely have electric and the police never set foot in those lanes. Crime and poverty walk side by side in this part of the world and the muggers descend at night to wait on a dark corner with a knife. It’s best to walk on the brightly-lit streets.
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