Visiting Filandia, Part 3 (final part with video)

Here’s part 3 of the sequel about Filandia, Colombia (you can the first and second blog post here), I’ll leave you with mostly photos of the center of town, as well as a video of our Filandia and our adventures at the bottom.

Some random facts about Filandia:

• Coffee is either called café tinto (dark and strong), café medio, or café americano (light)
• Juices are always natural, from the fruit, and served without sugar
• You won’t find black pepper in restaurants on the tables, or in dishes
• Spicy sauce (salsa picante) is called aji
• Only tourists get cold and wear jackets
• If you’re vegan or vegetarian, you’re pretty much screwed. Everything has meat and/or cheese in it
• Life is extremely cheap, but pet stores are expensive for some reason!
• There are no yellow taxis, only Willies (old-timer Jeepsfrom the 50’s, see picture below)

All in all, I was positively impressed by this little town, its people and life there in general. I sincerely hope that it will not turn into another expat town full of American and European retirees, who will change the local way of life to impose their gringo lifestyle, just like in Boquete, Panama. This inevitably makes life too expensive for the locals. I don’t think this will happen anytime soon, mainly because of Colombia’s bad rep and the currency issue (the USD is worth about COP 3,000 today).

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