Gay medellin colombia
Our gay travel guide to Medellin features all the best gay bars, clubs, gay-friendly hotels to stay at, things to do, and more.
Medellin used to be considered the crime capital of Colombia, this is the city where drug lord Pablo Escobar reigned during the 70s and 80s. However, over the past 15 years, it has undergone a huge transition to become one of the safest and most advanced places in the entire country.
Medellin's nickname nowadays is the “City of Eternal Spring” due to its temperate weather. This also makes it ideal for the stunning annual Flower Festival which takes place every August.
Medellin is a very gay-friendly city. The paisas (people of Medellin) are very welcoming and love to see foreigners. Whilst its homosexual scene is not as big as Bogota's, there are still loads of gay hangouts, largely based in Poblado. What impressed us the most was a public sign we spotted in our hotel, which sets out the various police fines you can get: one of them was for homophobic maltreatment, which carries a decent of , Colombian pesos ($). T
Our Gay Travel Reference for Colombia
Our trip to Colombia was our first trip ever to South America, together. Daan already visited Ecuador about ten years ago, and we have traveled to Central America already, Costa Rica to be precise. For our Gay Colombia Travel Guide, we started our Colombia adventure with some days off in the Caribbean daystar. Therefore, we flew from Dresden via Amsterdam with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to Cartagena. For the first week we didn’t prepare anything super uncontrolled but to unwind and adjust to the time difference in the so-called ‘Pearl of the Caribbean’ swimming in the Caribbean Sea under palm trees and exploring the historical center of Cartagena.
The next terminate on the male lover travel bucket list was Bogotá, the Colombian capital metropolis. And yes, we were super thrilled to spend Halloween in Bogotá. After a couple of days at around 2, meters altitude, we jumped on a plane off to Medellín, the so-called “City of Eternal Spring”. The plan was to end our Colombia trip with a glamping experience. And then, off to our ne
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