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paramilitaries, with apparently much success. overnight, however, its population shrank by 85%. and what remains struggles to survive. so, the people here, you re telling me, either were born here yeah. or? most of the people came from elsewhere. in the beginning in the 1950s and 60s they were they were escaping from the violence, from the political violence between the two parties in colombia. so, if you were having problems in the city or wherever you were from, you came out here? yeah. so what did you do for a living out here? cattle and some agriculture, and after that the drug trade began and everything with the coca plantations. the climate is good for it?
scenery. it s beautiful here. a beer. i need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water. that s probably a really good idea. that s going to be a good start for tonight. a good start? i m done. oh, man. that dog has the right idea. see, i d be very happy if that was me right now. just like laying down in the sand with my chin out like that. man, it s so beautiful here. who comes here? basically, tourists from colombia and a lot of backpackers that are making their way up to the north. right. but i mean, we saw one tourist all day. it s nice, really, it s completely off the grid. this used to be a fisherman village. there are definitely worse places to eat seafood than beachside in a fishing village, and the strength of this area lies in the variety of fish available. basically, like a fish chowder, made with shrimp, clams. right.
two-mile-high city with new lofty food ambitions, where previously, a restaurant scene didn t really exist. now young restauranteurs such as musician turned chef tomas rueda are beginning to make a name for themselves in colombia. this is paloquemao. this is one of the biggest markets in bogota. i love this place. it s very beautiful. the colors. my mom comes here to buy flowers, my grandma also. did i mention that this city is over 8,000 feet up? hence the altitude sickness i m feeling. not good. tomas comes here a few times a week for an early breakfast, which i m hoping will make me feel better. paloquemao market has been running in one form or another since the 1940s.
fiercely, fiercely proud country, and its people yearn to see international coverage of something other than cocaine and violence, but that isn t a legacy that s easy to ignore. its decades of civil unrest have left vast swaths of colombia relatively unknown, even to its own citizens. to reach a place previously considered a no-go area, i ll fly out of an airport in villavicencio, 45 miles southeast of the capital bogota. on first inspection, this is an airplane boneyard, where unwanted props from romancing the stone corrode artfully. but in reality, this sleepy hangar is an important gateway to the more impenetrable parts of the country. the remote settlements in the amazon basin are cut off from the country, with neither rail nor roads connecting them. there are only two ways in, either boat for several days