Antique Car Parade - Medellin, Colombia

Day 1

Let's start the day by going to an antique car parade!  Since this is the week of the Feria De Las Flores in Medellin, the week is full of assorted celebrations and parades and this is a local favourite, especially if you're a car aficionado.  

The street is absolutely jam-packed with people on both sides and even on the street itself...  Complete organized chaos...

First comes a billion advertising cars, buses and trucks, including mini versions...  If it can drive, they'll glue on an ad and drive it down this road.  Some ads even had pretty buxom ladies on board.  HELLO LADIES...  Ad vehicles lasted about an hour and a half.  All the while, men and women holding various containers and makeshift bins march up down the street hawking everything from fruit to gum to beer (oh, you can drink anywhere in public BTW - awesome).

Then came the cars, trickling slowly with large 15-30 minute gaps between some.  We later find out that many of these antique cars had trouble starting and people were just generally late.  Fords, Willy's, Chevy's and even military vehicles made there way out...  And 2 hours later...

The rain started pouring so it was either we tried to create shelter from fronds on the street or run into the nearby mall.  The mall won.  After an hour of torrential downpour, it completely clears up and it's sunny again.  Gotta love this tropical weather...  Where to next??