11th July 2025 at 09:16 - Damian
On Wednesday (the day before the wedding) we took a taxi into Guatapé where we poked around and had lunch with a few of our fellow guests.
From there we hired a couple of tuktuks to visit La Piedra/El Peñol[1] which is a giant rock with stairs. 700ish steps made slightly harder by the thinner air at 2000m.
Richard and Krista had brought their own climbing gear from NZ and climbed the other side of the rock earlier that morning. It took them about two hours. They thought it was all ok to climb but found fresh razor wire at the top and were detained by police after being ushered back down the steps. No charges laid. They're nuts.
I managed to catch a cold at some point during our flights and it had kicked in on this day with lots of sneezing and insta-drip nose.
1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Pe%C3%B1%C3%B3n_de_Guatap%C3%A9