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Travel to Cali

Posted by Ann Brown ⋅ February 6, 2010 ⋅

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Department: Valle del Cauca
Average temperature: 23 ° C
Altitude: 1000 m
Airport: Aeropuerto Internacional Alfonso Bonilla Aragón

Main sites:
- Archaeological Museum La Merced
- Museum de Arte Colonial and Religious La Merced
- Chapel and Convent of La Merced
- Archbishop’s Palace
- Gold Museum
- The Hermitage
- Holguines Trade Center Mall

Cali is known as the world capital of salsa. It is a friendly city, home to civic and gay friendly people and beautiful women, is the ideal place to hold events and meetings because resort has good national and international level.

Archaeological Museum La Merced

In his search for the much cherished legend of El Dorado who undertook Sebastian de Belalcazar, left Quito guided by strange tales of a Northerner who preached the richness of its soil. Reported that the principal chief, after bathing in gold dived into the clear waters of a sacred lake while offerings of his people threw gold and jewels in honor of their gods.

In this way, and after seeing the failure of two of his expeditions, Belalcazar permanent foundations choose to use them as reference points, and finally on 25 July 1536, the day of St. James, Miguel López Muñoz, by delegation of Belalcazar , stuck a banner and make the foundation of the city under the name of Santiago de Cali.

The region currently has the largest sugar mills and one of the largest industrial areas of the country to the point that is the third city Cali Colombian industrial and commercial importance. The city has convenient shopping, social clubs, modern hotels and restaurants and green areas that make Cali one of the most pleasant cities in the country.

Chapel and Convent of La Merced

Framed by the Statue of Christ the King, the Monument of the Three Crosses, the Sebastian de Belalcazar Monument Park and the Farallones, Cali, the country presents itself as a friendly city, civic and joyful celebrations as the Feria de la Caña Sugar, held between 25 and 30 December, making it the “World Capital of Salsa” intermingling singing, dancing, bullfights, horseback riding, culture, typical food and fun.

In the lands near Cali, green and fertile, there are beautiful farms that invite you for delightful excursions. A 36 km north of Cali, on the road to the Hill, is the Hacienda El Paraiso area in which the action unfolds in the novel Mary, greatest work of American romantic realism of Jorge Isaacs, several times taken to film.

We can also find on the outskirts of Cali and the estates of Cañasgordas Piedechinche, the latter is the seat of cane museum, it is also possible to know the Farallones National Park.

Archbishop's Palace