salt, or no! dry it? salt it? how? no. just fresh? yes. delicious. you would never get this off your menu. mama didn t raise no fool. santiago de cali, or just cali, as people call it in these piece, is a city in the southwest of colombia known for its proximity to the pacific coast and its semi-tropical temperatures, but i m not really here for the climate. i m here for tejo. it involves alcohol and explosives. colombian mario gallino, ex-pat will holland and their bandmates
they need to. luckily for us, it means that cheap gas is easy to come by in these parts. there are no stations as such. you just keep an eye out for the cans. most of this gasoline is from venezuela. it s extremely cheap. i think it s like 50 cents a gallon. 50 cents. the government subsidizes a lot of it. they re able to buy venezuelan gasoline and sell legally venezuelan gasoline in colombia. wow. having taken on as much gas as can be mouth siphoned in one sitting, we re off again. let me set the scene. it s hot out here, desert hot, and we plan to ride three hours along the coast to our lunch spot, and i ate salty goat innards for breakfast, and i refuse to wear a helmet or
and covert assistance from venezuela. 50 years of very dirty war. the stakes not about drugs per se, but about the ability of ordinary colombians to live without fear. we land in the jungle outpost of miraflores in the southern province in the amazonian forest reserve. the heavy presence of army and special police is a result of its strategic location and recent history as a one-time center of coca production. farmers here would grow the stuff and make leaves into paste. traffickers would come and buy it. the farc had this area under its sphere of influence for years. nine years ago, the government moved to expel the farc, the traffickers and any
i leave the subtropics for more extreme climates. riohacha is a city 600 miles northeast of cali on the la caribbean borders the venezuela. it s home to the native semi-nomadic people of colombia called the wayuu. the wayuu are a tough, autonomous tribe that s never taken a side with the government, the farc or the paramilitaries. as a result they remain independent politically and live pretty much by their own code. i m meeting juan pablo majorca, a chef from bogota that comes to this spot on a regular basis. this is colombia, but it s a very different part of colombia. it s a rugged terrain, it s
clothes? yeah. i m hurting now. i m feeling it, every minute, every hour, every month and year of my age. so you re ready for some casuela? yes. i trust it will make me feel all better. much better. it s a good end to a fun day. you can t ask for better 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.