GUATAPÉ, LO MEJOR DE COLOMBIA | COLOMBIA #5

Okay I'm back on track and it's already 6:30 in the morning pretty early I'm heading now to a square that's nearby which is the Plaza del Poblado Where I have arranged to go on a trip to a nearby village roughly speaking From here in Medellín which is called Guatapé It's a two-hour drive and well it was quite a hassle getting there More later the little things to do and such I just preferred to do them directly Hire a tour which is about twelve hours that takes you there They explain the place but it's one of the most beautiful and essential sites Well we've arrived at Guatapé after about two hours a bit more It's packed today because it's the busiest weekend of the year On the weekend of the Epiphany during the first week of January And we are uh in Guatapé which is a town that was flooded in the 1970s To create a dam for an energy need they had here in Colombia Then in order to generate electricity they created a huge reservoir That is what is today the base here in Guatapé What is also very characteristic besides the reservoir itself is above all the rock The Guatapé rock located in the middle of the town has about seven hundred steps To go up to the top and it's not a very hard climb either Yes it is true that it is quite hot but the worst part is that today Since it's the day with the most people of the year there's a huge line Then you're always standing on the stairs So we'll see how long it takes us to climb up but that's for sure From above there must be amazing views of the entire area around the reservoir So the entry is twenty thousand pesos which is about five euros more or less Despite the crowd it's definitely worth climbing because the views are amazing So it's really beautiful everything There's a tower there that well also causes a bit of a traffic jam because the road is quite narrow But you still have a 360-degree view of the entire area of everything that is the reservoir I think it's really really beautiful That's not too long to climb it takes about fifteen minutes The thing is if it's already daytime and there are as many people as there are today then you might end up waiting half an hour or so But anyway this area is private property which is the Rock because a gentleman in the 1950s became infatuated with her when this was still quite agricultural and the people only used it here to farm and since nothing could be farmed on this stone Then a man who liked stone bought it for three cows and some money And from then on he gradually built the stairs so people could climb up to it and it started to charge beginning at 2 000 pesos and rising to 20 000 pesos It is as of today at the beginning of the year 2020 I'm saying this because it tends to go up a lot two months ago it was 18 000 and it's already at 20 000 But it's worth it because they are about five glimmers And you can be here you also have food and something to drink The part that is not flooded obviously It is a very beautiful town it is very small it has barely 6 000 residents It preserves the colors the town had back then before it was flooded In fact it is considered one of the most colorful towns in the Antioquia region and one of the most beautiful ones and it is also known as the tocalos at the soles are the lower parts of the houses They have a kind of wood veneer with different patterns and these patterns come in three types It's the part that's more cultural another part that has to do with all the traditions of Colombia and from this part of the country then they have the part that's more about personal preferences They can already be for example if they like a specific cartoon On such topics as they also personalize each home for them And the rest of the neighbors are respected so that they are not copied and then there is the family member It is the only one that can be repeated in multiple buildings Yes that's why because if they belong to the same family they will have something like a kind of shield But the same a drawing that represents the family itself Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Step 12