anyone been to Quibdo??

[Malandro]

I am interested in checking it out.

[pablo]

... in response to anyone been to Quibdo??, posted by Malandro on Oct 17, 2005


Malandro,

You might want to rethink your trip to Quibdo.  I was considering taking a flight there and spending a few days checking it out but found a few links that made me think twice.  It sounds like a very dangerous place and has a lot of drug smuggling activity.  That and then talking to someone who grew up in Quibdo convinced me to head over to Bucaramanga instead.

Here are the links I mentioned above.

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVOD-6EHHW7?OpenDocument

The photos this guy took in the city are very eerie yet very good.

http://www.momentagency.com/stories/colombia/source/00.htm

(If you keep pressing next above the photo you will see more.)

[Gator]

... in response to anyone been to Quibdo??, posted by Malandro on Oct 17, 2005

I have been there and I DO NOT, consider the Departmento del Choco particularly safe.  It's a beautiful area right on the Pacific, if you like the rain forest. But Quibdo is not on the coast.  It's the only real city in the Choco, about 70.000 thousand and you can drive from Medellin otherwise it's small plane or boat mostly by to water on the Atrato River to the small, and I do mean small towns and villages, like 2 to 5 thousand..  Rains like hell all the time-I mean like everyday.  And it ain't just rain it's BY GOD RAIN. Quibdo is allegedly the rainiest place in South America and gets more than 350 inches  of rain a year.

How did I end up there?  Good friend of the wife has a beach place around Catripe where we spent a week.  Right on the beach but NOTHING else for miles.  Flew in and landed on the beach.  Population mostly mixed negro and small Indians.  The only place worth visiting, IMHO, is Bahia Solano.