Medellin

Day 10 (Day 6 of the Gate 1 tour). Today we drove up a mountain above Medellin. Photo: View of Medellin below.

Familia Londono

We visited the Familia Londono flower farm in the mountains.

Carrying Boards

We learned that the Spanish, during Colonial times, would be carried in a chair attached to a board on the backs of the indigenous people. This drawing shows what it was like for both the person carried and the person doing the carrying.

Flower Boards

Flower Boards

Metrocable Gondola

We next took gondolas over Arvi Park on a tourist gondola line. There are three gondola lines in Medellin: Line L, the tourist line over the park; Line K, that connects to Line L at the Santo Domingo neighborhood; and Line J. Lines L and J are part of the public transportation system and this was the first gondola system in the world to be a part of public system.

Arvi Park

On the gondola over Arvi Park. The ride was not scary and it was a long ride.

Medellin

Approaching the populated hill areas above the city.

Santo Domingo

We got off at the end of Line L at the Santo Domingo station and walked around the area.

Line K Gondola

From the Santo Domingo station, we boarded the Line K gondola that would take us down the hill to the main part of Medellin and then we boarded the linking subway to where our bus would pick us up.

I have put my photos of the Londono Flower Farm and the gondola ride on a slideshow. Go to

http://www.peggysphotos.com/medellin–flower–farmgondola–ride/

(Slide Shows, South America, Colombia–2, “Medellin: Flower Farm/Gondola Ride”).