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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
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 desert. there s not much water, so
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 down river, or aboard a jungle bus, which is what locals call
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