San Agustin: We took a bus and a very bumpy ride, and we´re not kidding we flew a foot in the air hit our heads on the roof because of it. In San Agustin, we camped at this really cool camp site that had cabins and a fire circle and one night we made smores with our new Dutch friends that were staying there. With our new friends we went horseback riding to four of the different archeological sites in the area. The whole town in filled with over 500 burial statues, we only saw 8 or 9 but they were a good 8 or 9. Some date as far back to 3000 BC and some as new as 1200 AD.
Popayan: The white city in Colombia. All the buildings are white washed which on bright days is a little blinding. We were there smack dab in the middle of holy week and were able to see two processions. The first one was kind of a nativity of the adult procession done by children. Everything was miniature. Miniature priests, monks, marching bands, police, altar pieces. It was really cute. My favorite part was when one of the miniature cardinals was walking down the street with a balloon and then he accidently let it go. The procession at night was almost identical to the kids procession in form, except it was more serious.
Armenia: Do not go to Armenia. We went to go to the Parque de Cafe which is the coffee theme park. It was really neat, but it´s outside of Armenia. We also went to the circus which was very exciting except we were two of twenty people there. They had neat acts though like a Spiderman that ran around this cage that flipped around, tight rope walkers, dogs playing soccer, the death defying motorcyclists in a cage, and a disco dancing white tiger that was really fat.
Now we are in Medellin and plan to spend the day walking around and going to a park which has obese statues of both people and inanimate objects!
Happy Easter!
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