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Cerro Nutibara, El Pueblito Paisa, or the strange town frozen in time.

El Pueblito Paisa Image by César Gómez found at this link

In my last blog post I put up a picture of the view of Medellin from El Cerro Nutibara (Nutibara Hill), this place is a viewing site next to a town called El Pueblito Paisa. This place.... gives me weird feelings, let me try to explain.

In this Pueblito Paisa there's four basic sections: the museum, the tourist lookout, the small town and the rest of the hill. The museum is quite small, a museum with reproductions of photographs of how Medellin looked like in the 20th century. What is really interesting about this is how all of these buildings and the look of Medellin the way it used to be is completely gone. Maybe it's because I come from Mexico, (where historical conservation is really important) but it just shocked me to realize just how much Medellin has changed from the 1930s to the present time, it's like nothing of the old Medellin remains, except for a couple of buildings here and there. (I am by no means an expert on the subject, I have only recently begun learning about the city, if you want to learn and read more about it consider reading this article).

So, after giving a look around the museum and comparing to how Medellin looks like now and how it used to look like, walking out onto the preserved town feels... odd. A little bit like stepping out into a trivialized blast from the past, if that makes any sense. Here we have one of the last remaining buildings that show us how Medellin used to look like and yet there's people everywhere selling bandeja paisas, sodas and a mix of artisanal looking and plastic machine-made souvenirs from everywhere in this town. This place feels like Colombia's attempt to honor their past and at the same time apply modern concepts of making a quick buck from tourists and local visitors alike. All in all, such a small place felt surprisingly overwhelming.

One thing I absolutely loved about this place was the hill surrounding it, now that place, is damn near magical. The entire area around the Pueblito Paisa is forresty goodness, an oasis in the middle of the city where the air feels fresh, pure and you are surrounded by a variety of bird calls (much like in the rest of the city). There's different trails around the forest and not many people straying away to explore, in my experience most people stuck to the Pueblito Paisa and there were few people out in the surrounding areas. What I loved most about this wooded area is how you can feel how this is an older forest, it wasn't completely cut down and then reforested when they realized they fucked up, there's old trees here and they truly give this place a peaceful feel.

All in all, it felt like an odd place, half in between the past and modernity, a good metaphor for what I have seen so far of Colombia. And yet, like the rest of Colombia, its redeeming quality is the vast amount of untamed greenery and diversity of its birds.

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I've always had this itch to write. Now I will.

I feel like such a cliché, yet another person writing a blog when she moves to another country. But frankly, I just don't give a damn.

Ever since I was a little girl I've had an intense fascination for the written word, I was an only child surrounded by adults, the written word was a was for me to completely go away to a different world, in a way that most adults applauded and wouldn't nag me about. I could literally sit down in a comfy chair and read for hours, without looking up or paying attention to anything around me; my favorite type of world to get myself into was fantasy books. I even wrote a short story about me getting lost in a gummy bear world when I was around ten (shockingly, it was not great).

When I was in high school I wrote one or two short stories that other people considered good and I even had more than one person ask me if I was planning on studying Literature or becoming a writer after graduation. Honestly, to this day, I don't know why I never even seriously considered it. I guess I felt I would never be good enough and my writing was just not going to cut it out in the "real world", so I didn't even want to try for fear of failure. I still struggle with this fear of failure, but I've decided I am done being afraid: I fucking love the written word, I love writing, I love reading, so who gives a shit if I suck and no one will read my blog? I want to do this for me, for the me in the present who is trying to work her shit out and the me in the past, whom I wish now I could give a fierce hug and tell her that it's OK to try things, even if you don't excel at them.

So this blog I want to dedicate to my new experiences I have had lately (and will keep having), the latest and biggest is that I recently moved to Medellin, Colombia  (during a global pandemic) with my life partner whom I've been living with for the last two years. Maybe it's something about the beautiful mountains of Medellin, the greenery all around me or something in the water, but I feel the most myself i've felt in my life and I have this urge, this itch, this need to pour some of myself somewhere. Mostly, I just want a space that is just my own, where I can write about things that happen to my in my daily life. If what I write entertains you and you want to read me? Awesome. If you don't, that's awesome too, because I am doing this for me.

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Ruta 11 Día 5: Pueblito Paisa, Parque de los Pies Descalzos, Metrocable y Parque de la Luz

Ruta 11 Día 5: Pueblito Paisa, Parque de los Pies Descalzos, Metrocable y Parque de la Luz

Teníamos en el itinerario ir el Pueblito Paisa, para eso cogimos un taxi que nos dejó justo en la entrada del pueblito. El  Pueblito Paisa, localizado en el Cerro Nutibara, es una réplica de un típico pueblo antioqueño del siglo XX. Cuenta con una plaza principal que tiene una fuente en el centro, y está rodeada por la alcaldía, la iglesia, la escuela, el museo, la barbería, restaurantes de…

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