{"id":69,"date":"2010-11-26T10:53:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T10:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rawtravelblog.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2010-11-26T10:53:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T10:53:12","slug":"day-2-medellin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rawtravelblog.com\/day-2-medellin\/","title":{"rendered":"Medellin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paula from Medellin Tourism <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1st<\/sup> day of shooting and we get an early start meeting with Paula from Medellin Tourism office. Paula has a whole agenda planned for us so we start the trip off with an intense schedule that includes stops all over Medellin.<\/p>\n

We begin at Barefoot Park where I am forced to remove my shoes and wade around in the water, grass and sand and get in touch with Mother Earth. The park is tranquil and the weather is splendid but I am in desperate need of a tan. I probably haven\u2019t been this white in months… why didn\u2019t we start in Cartagena?!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m pretty nervous and not used to the camera following my every move. This is going to take some serious getting used to.<\/p>\n

We head from there to the Metro Cable and take the cable car up to the barrio Santo Domingo, and to one of the five new libraries the city has constructed in poor areas throughout the city. The views from the Metro Cable are stunning! And looking down gives you a glimpse of barrio life from above. It\u2019s a must do when traveling to Medellin.<\/p>\n

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Metro Cable - A Must Do In Medellin <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Barrio Santo Domingo <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After touring the library, we break for lunch and meet one of Paula\u2019s counterparts, Cristina, from the Medellin Convention and Visitors Bureau. We have a delicious lunch and head over to Parque Explora to take in the science museum. It\u2019s full of schoolchildren and the most memorable part was going in the earthquake simulator which simulates a 6.0 Richter scale earthquake. To be honest it wasn\u2019t that bad, but that is of course without buildings collapsing around you.<\/p>\n

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Pueblita Paisa @ Night <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pueblita Paisa in the daytime<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By the time we finished Parque Explora it\u2019s getting late so we fight rush hour traffic and head over to Pueblita Paisa, which is a reproduction of a typical little town in Colombia. The view is incredible but it\u2019s too dark to shoot much so we\u2019ll have to come back tomorrow to get b-roll.<\/p>\n

We head back to the hotel and I grab a quick workout before we head out for some legendary Medellin nightlife. \u00a0Our first stop is Woka in Parque Lleras, where we order a drink called La cucaracha or something like that and the bartenders set the bar on fire. Good TV!<\/p>\n

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Nightlife in Medellin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From there we head to a couple of really cool clubs and end up the night in Sabaneta at a place called \u201cDulce Jesus Mio\u201d (My Sweet Jesus), that is a real trip. It felt like Halloween inside the bar with so many people dressed up in costumes, but to be honest I was so exhausted that I couldn\u2019t really enjoy it. I just wanted to go to sleep. It was 3AM and I\u2019d been up since 6AM the previous morning. All in all, a pretty intense first day!\u00a0 Travel ain\u2019t easy!<\/p>\n

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Renzo shooting in Sabaneta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1st day of shooting and we get an early start meeting with Paula from Medellin Tourism office. Paula has a whole agenda planned for us so we start the trip off with an intense schedule that includes stops all over Medellin. We begin at Barefoot Park where I am forced to remove my shoes and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[17,15,16,23,34,33,11,18,29,25,10,30,26,27,24,32,22,4,21,20,19,9,14,13,31,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawtravelblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawtravelblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawtravelblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawtravelblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawtravelblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rawtravelblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawtravelblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawtravelblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawtravelblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawtravelblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}