Friday, 23 January 2009

Salento - photos 1






Salento:

Salento, founded in 1851, is a small town in the department of Quindio. It is part of the "zona cafetera" or "coffee maker zone". Obviously, one of the main attraction is to visit coffee plantations but the town merits on its own the visit: charming, colonial town with its coloured houses and relaxing atmosphere. But it was very cloudy and raining everyl afternoon so we had to wake up at 6.30am to take pictures cloudless!!!

- The main plaza with the colonial church. The picture was taken mid-morning and as you can see, very cloudy already!
- View of the village from the Mirador touristico. We went here at around 7am to have some sun for nicer pictures and all was quiet, peaceful. Very nice! Time to go down to the village all was cloudy!
- Lee was in front of a typical colonial style house, full of colours,
- View of the mountains from the Mirador. That was the typical landscape around Salento, green, superb Andes...,
- Some of the mountains are used for coffee plantations. Here on the picture, you can distinguish lines of coffee trees.

1 comment:

Céline said...

Coucou

alors ça y est vous êtes en Colombie. Il faut absolument que vous alliez dans la Valle del Cocora si vous êtes à Salento, vous ne pouvez pas râter cela. Et si vous pouvez aller plus au nord entre Pereira et Manizales (ces deux villes ne valent pas le coup) à Santa Rosa de Cabal et montez jusqu'à l'hotel tout en haut et demandez à faire la marche écologique c'est trop magnifique, chutes d'eau et végétation luxuriante !!!
Et puis n'oubliez pas Cartagena sur la mer des Caraïbes bien plus au nord.
Il faut aussi que vous gouttiez au Tamal; ils le mangent le matin normalement mais c'est énorme !! alors pour un midi c'est pas mal
En tout cas bravo pour votre blog c'est trop top, vous faites un voyage magnifique.
Allez à bientôt
Bises
Céline et Jack