{"id":6935,"date":"2015-06-02T03:54:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T01:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:30:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T12:30:46","slug":"medellin-once-the-most-dangerous-city-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/2015\/06\/02\/medellin-einst-gefaehrlichste-stadt-der-welt\/","title":{"rendered":"Medellin - once the most dangerous city in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Onward journey via Pereira to Medellin<\/li>\n<li>Explore the ultra-chic El Poblano district<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our minibus leaves Salento shortly before 8 a.m. <strong>Direction Pereira<\/strong>. Mostly tourists are on board, but there are also some locals. After an hour and a quarter we reach Pereira, where we go directly <strong>Bus tickets to Medellin <\/strong>buy and 15 minutes later you can start.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the winding drive through the fertile highlands, blogs are written, read and pictures are sorted out as always. The journey takes a long time until we finally arrive at around 3 p.m.<strong> infamous Medellin arrive<\/strong>. The <strong>formerly most dangerous city in the world <\/strong>has had one in recent years <strong>amazing change <\/strong>experienced. The economy is booming, there is building everywhere and everything is wonderfully green and clean. At least in the district <strong>El Poblano<\/strong>where we set up camp. A stark contrast to its big rival Bogota.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We march through the district looking for a map of the city and finally end up in the heart of El Poblano. Lined up here <strong>chic bars, restaurants and clubs <\/strong>to fine boutiques and some hostels. Niki buys some small souvenirs and in a hostel we find something with a map and tour offers for tomorrow. We register for a Pablo Escobar tour in the exquisite Grand Buddha Boutique Hostel. Then there is a <strong>concentrated load of cheese and dried meat<\/strong>, as well as a sandwich and a glass of red wine.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Onward journey via Pereira to Medellin<\/li>\n<li>Explore the ultra-chic El Poblano district<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Our minibus leaves Salento shortly before 8 a.m. <strong>Direction Pereira<\/strong>. Mostly tourists are on board, but there are also some locals. After an hour and a quarter we reach Pereira, where we go directly <strong>Bus tickets to Medellin <\/strong>buy and 15 minutes later you can start.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,820,1982,2038],"tags":[1985,2019,2020,2021,2033,2039,2040,2041],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tagebuch","category-suedamerika","category-kolumbien","category-medellin","tag-kolumbien","tag-salento","tag-zona-cafetera","tag-tierra-paisa","tag-risaralda","tag-medellin","tag-pereira","tag-el-poblano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}