From S. Wales to S. America!
 Trout and Wax Palms in Salento Ah, Salento. What a great place. It`s a small town nestled in a verdant valley. It has 3500 inhabitants and they`re all very relaxed. As we walk along the pretty streets the locals, sat outside their shops, say hello and chat to you about the weather and where you are from. Nobody rushes here. I went for a run one morning and people stared at me as if I was a lunatic. We are not staying in the actual hostel at `Plantation House` but in the cottage belonging to the owner. It`s nice and quiet with amazing views and we are sharing the place with a couple of nice English girls (sisters, Kate and Georgia). The dining area is quite gloomy so we bought some candles and the four of us had a candle-lit dinner. We spent the evenings watching electrical storms over the distant mountains or watching the thousands of fireflies outside the back door. We also spent a lot of time just sitting on the back deck, reading. On Wednesday Kate, Georgia, Kirsty and myself took a jeep ride to Cocora and did a long hike. The scenery was stunning and there were lots of wax palm trees. The wax palms grow really tall and straight but are really skinny with no branches except at the very top. It was strange to see all these tall, thin trees dotted over the hillsides. The big dish in Salento is trout. Every restaurant serves it. We went to `Lucy`s` and had the almuerzo (set meal of the day) which consisted of soup and a banana for starters and a trout main. We didn`t know what to do with the banana so we left it for dessert only to notice later that the locals were eating it with the soup. Very strange. The trout was very tasty though.
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