A day trip from Medellin is to the quaint little town of El Pe
ñol. It is about 2 hours away from the city centre and is also the home to La Piedra. To get there, you have to take the metro to the bus terminal, then haggle with the bus terminal people, then get on a bus to the place. There are about a thousand little farms on the way to El Pe
ñol that dot the hillsides. La Piedra is a massive geological formation set among rolling hills and rivers in the countryside. That's just a fancy way of saying it's a huge rock in the middle of nowhere. But oh what a rock it is!!!
It's a 200m tall rock/mountain with stairs in the side to climb to the top. It was $10,000 pesos to climb it, and I was not about to spend my money to climb some stairs. They also have several lookout points from the base of the rock (which is on top of a mountain) providing amazing views of the surrounding land. Check the pics below! The pictures don't really do it justice, I tried my best.
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| Farms from the bus |
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| La Piedra from a distance |
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| Getting closer... |
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| And closer...! |
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| Finally made it! |
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| View from the road up to La Piedra...me on the right |
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| Why is there no elevator? |
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| Rock information |
Amazing views below.
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