Wednesday, June 28, 2017

A stroll around Old Town Cali

we got Google Maps out and a list of places we wanted to go, and they were all within walking distance. So we took a 3-mile walk and saw a beautiful cathedral another church, the gold Museum, the Central Square, a pedestrian walkway, a cool shop that was a women's Collective of artisans. At this shop Leslie found some cool items. It was a great walk around town.  We saw businessmen and women, street dogs, street people, hippies, backpackers, police, vendors, older ladies and gentleman with typewriters, statues, environmentalists, a smattering of tourists, and a group of kids on a field trip.

Simón Bolivar and his assistant

We walk through a park to get to the central area of the city

A little Waterfall by the Kali River

Environmentalists cleaning up the river

A beautiful Gothic Cathedral

Incredible details

The vaulted ceiling

The stained-glass went on and on

 the altar lit up in blue

For a fee they can type up documents for you.

 I wonder what it is that they're typing up

While we were eating Titans in the mustache world

Vendors in old timey buildings in a pedestrian walkway

Titans in the academic world

The Central Square, plenty of places to sit and watch the pigeons and the people

1000 percent of your vitamin C needs

The pig seems to have just gotten the news that he is for dinner

The theater

Another quaint building on our way back to the hotel