After spending 5 months in Colombia, let me first share my one-breath view of the country;
No matter day or night, you can smell marijuana from anywhere while walking on the street.. They are very fond of entertainment.. Turkish serials are very common on TV.. their daughters are beautiful. There are still indigenous groups in different parts of the country, and many still retain their culture.. Meaninglessly, there is always a state of dislike and vilification between the capital Bogota and the other big city Medellin.. You see a lot of homeless people on your streets.. Mostly in Medellin. While the poor generally love Pablo Escobar, at least 50% of the country hates him. The whole country is Christian.. Student life is tough.. their daughters are beautiful. An estimated 70% of university students can both study and work.. Some work two different jobs at the same time.. Almost all universities are paid. People are very friendly and hospitable. If you ask something on the street, everyone tries to help.. While there are many places to visit and see in the country, it has not received the value it deserves thanks to the bad image left by Hollywood and the world famous for drugs.. It has started to improve and if it continues like this, it may become one of the favorite tourist destinations of Latina America in 10-15 years.. Does not require visa from Turks. their daughters are beautiful. In general, if you don’t go in and out of dangerous streets and don’t walk around like I’m a tourist, come and strip me, you won’t start a job easily.. Some cities have parks called “tolerance zones” where almost any kind of drug use is allowed.. You can do drugs even when the police pass by, no one will tell you anything. The food is good. eats a lot of meat. It is cheaper than Turkey for both living and touristic trips.. Entertainment is cheap. Sea vacation places are partly expensive and overcrowded compared to other regions.. For this reason, it is not a place to be preferred for a sea holiday.. their daughters are beautiful. No harsh winter conditions. they like to play chess. Even on the busiest pedestrian street, you can see chess tables set up in the middle of the road.. Alcohol is cheap, books are expensive. Taxi is cheap, internet is expensive. Some estates or houses are surrounded by electrified wires for safety reasons and this is normal for Colombia.. There is a craze for plastic surgery in the women of the country, especially in the city of Medellin.. This madness has taken such a dimension that you hear 15-year-old girls enlarge their breasts with the operation.. With parental consent as under 18 years old. You can’t make sense of this but rumors are common that girls do it to get richer husbands.. Again, I’ve seen more girls use braces than I’ve ever seen anywhere in my life.. While you see someone who wears braces once a month in Turkey, you can see it in 10-15 people every day in Colombia.. In Latin America, there are no Chinese people who have a place in almost every country and run a market in this country.. people are comfortable. You may see some shopping malls closed on Sundays.. It has very well preserved ancient villages dating from the 1,600s.. They like spicy dishes and sauces. They are pet friendly. You can see that you can enter the public transportation vehicles, even the markets with pets.. They are incredibly respectful to cyclists and cyclists.. On Sundays, one side of the busiest streets in the capital is open to cyclists and pedestrians only, and closed to vehicular traffic.. There is a casino or places that play bingo style games on every 3 streets.. They love to dance regardless of male or female.. Even in a normal cafe, if the music they like plays, you can see an ordinary couple getting up and dancing.. Even 60 year old uncles dance. Coffee plantations produce very good coffee because they are at an ideal height above sea level.. Coffee is to them what tea is to us.. You always see people selling hot filter coffee with a thermos on the streets.. The country is so green. There are parks everywhere and they are crowded with people.. And these parks turn into open-air theaters, especially on weekends, with shows by street artists.. Alcohol is allowed in the parks, but I’ve never seen anyone go astray after drinking.. It is an ideal place for street artistry.. It may be a bit of a luxury to leave Turkey for Colombia only, but if one or two more countries are added to it, it will not be eaten.. They are Sevişkendir. In the park, on the bus, in the shopping mall, on the street, you see couples kissing everywhere.. No one looks back. Although the mother tongue of the country with an average population of 50 million is Spanish, there are more than 60 ethnic languages, together with the languages used by the natives.. On TV and newspapers, you constantly see news about extortion, theft and ratings.. And again, TV channels are full of talent contests.. Their girls are beautiful.
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