Cali, Colombia Is WAY BETTER Than I Expected!! | Travel Vlog 

You should have come and visited me..I have been around here since 2003 and been all over the country

whats the name of the hostel?

Yeah very nice there

do it bro

Thanks Kevin!!

yeah everyone has their own opinion, I liked Cali a lot too

Which were your favorite areas?

Did you stay at Miguel’s AirBnB?

I love Granada ❤❤❤❤

Time is money, don't wanna waste yours

@@WheresWes ☺️

While I have you on the line Wes lol, have you been to boyaca colombia?

It's still unsafe tho so be aware.

I would agree with that. There's more culture in Cali

Yeah the traffic lately has been super bad

@Where's Wes? So far Manizales is my new home. In Guatepe this week glamping. Climbed the El Penol today. A well deserved cervesa was waiting for me at the top.

de acuerdo

Agreed

​@Where's Wes? You'd like Barranquilla specially if you try the chicken Arab style. The best in Colombia.

Salsa club called la topa

I did but had to delete it. Wasn't a fan of Cartagena tho

@@WheresWes sorry you had to delete it bro. Your eec wife family was in that video too .. 🤦🏽‍♂️.. But anyway why i didn’t you like it ?

I have a video still up tho, look up Cartagena where's Wes

lol, it's when it all started actually

For sure, your opinion

Great comment

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There is

Fewer gringos can be viewed as another positive aspect of Cali! 😉 Just become fluent in Spanish and your enjoyment will increase tenfold.

@@Neosan1982 Oh, I totally agree! That would be a positive thing for me. He just referenced a few times in the video that there are a good amount of gringos there, but I'd have to see it to believe it to be honest with you.

@@ej1692 ... Colombia keeps statistics on how many foreigners visit Colombia. I don't know how many decide to stay. From Jan to Jun 2022 it broke down like this for cities: Bogotá (38 %), Medellín (19 %), Cartagena (18 %), Cali (6 %), Barranquilla (2 %).

Yeah its true. Im not going to go and film random girls tho lol

@@WheresWes Random girls? Jjj So you preselected the girls in your videos?🤔

you can use that same logic with anywhere though. At the end of the day is Medellin really that world class? Not a ton to do there either

It's true. But salsa alone is good enough for people to go

The question is always "what to do?" ... Doing, doing, doing. There are other things in life besides doing. Reading. Meditating. Eating. Sleeping. Watching movies or TV or telenovelas. Visiting with friends. Learning Spanish. Taking classes (I took salsa classes in Cali.) I am fluent (bilingual) so I also enjoy listening to spoken language radio programs in Spanish, like those of Diana Uribe, a tremendous historian who also has a podcast. In other words, some social stuff, some activity, some quiet time enjoying being alone. An easy comfortable mix of everything. Easy because you are in Cali, not Norway, not a horribly cold climate. In Cali you will never have cold bones like I have when I stay in Bogotá. Cali is a good place for reading or pursuing a hobby or learning a musical instrument or for just being inactive any day of the week. But for that you have to be as comfortable with just being, with doing nothing, as you are with doing... which is tough for some people. Cali es un sucursal del cielo. That is enough for me. In Cali every Sunday morning from 8am-1pm, the city closes down the roads near Las Canchas Panamericanas and tons of people come out to run, walk, ride bikes, and rollerblade with their families. On Friday and Saturday I went to listen and dance to salsa. Other days I wasn't doing, just being. I like to listen to music. Cali had seven FM radio stations that play ONLY salsa 24 hours a day. No other city could say that. Nowhere else in the world has seven 24 hour FM stations dedicated only to salsa. Salsa is not just for dancing. Salsa is a window into the soul of Latin American culture. Salsa, with its Afrocentric roots is not represented by romantic music (salsa romántica). In Cali you can hear other genres of salsa. In Cali you can hear "Salsa Mensaje" (of the 60s and 70s) that tells stories through the lyrics. Ruben Blades, Hector Lavoe, Celia Cruz, La Fania, and dozens more. Discover the "salsa dura," cathartic salsa, the "salsa brava," "salsa agresiva," "salsa clásica" of the 60s and 70s that transmit messages of panamerican importance for the people of Cali. Go deep into the spiritual aspects of salsa through the messages in the lyrics. Listen to "Siempre Alegre" by Raphy Leavitt. Find the translation of the lyrics in English of that song if you have to. Read about salsa. Start with THE BOOK OF SALSA : A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City by César Miguel Rondón (ISBN 978-0-8078-5859-2) Or read Lise Waxer's THE CITY OF MUSICAL MEMORY : Salsa, Record Grooves and Popular Culture in Cali. She did her research in Cali. Learn from salsa. You can do that in Cali among hundreds of thousands of people who know salsa from the inside out. Get to know the salsa that has African roots, religious roots, and the percussion that goes with it, instead of the 21st century superficial insipid erotic synthesizer salsa that has no depth or meaning or social or political message or religious message. Salsa is religious music with roots in the Yoruba religion, in Chango and Yemaya. Learn the history of salsa. Prepare yourself for the Feria de Cali. Learn about the major artists: Venezuelan, Puerto Rican, Newyorquino, Cuban, etc. because in Cali their music is not forgotten. 🥝 Don't forget to have a lulada and pan de yuca...

Sports are very big in Cali too

@@Neosan1982 and yet you end up talking only about Salsa 😀

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It's that dangerous there unfortunately

100%

You have no idea.

veryyy niceeeeee