These will be our last few days in Colombia. We had one more special place to visit and then a few more family gatherings.
Marcela’s brother has started a new business in a beautiful farm in Sonson, a small town about 4 hrs from Medellin. We went on a trip for a couple of days to “La Perla”, Marcela brother’s farm.
Sonsón is a beautiful town with colonial houses and a beautiful central plaza. It is surrounded by beautiful mountains. The place is amazingly green, between milk farms, avocado plantations or pure forest. During our time in the region we had the opportunity to visit a sugar cane processing plant. They specialise in producing panela, basically solidified sugar cane juice, which is used in almost every house in the region. There are several uses for panela, but the main is to dilute it in water and drink it… delicious!
April is also the month for both our father’s birthdays and this year is a special one for Carlos’ dad as he is turning 70. We had a celebration for both dads’ birthdays before heading on our next adventure… Morocco here we come!
Thanks to our family and friends for an amazing time! This was a records, this is the first time we spend so long in Colombia since we left in 1999. And also thank you to Colombia for waiting for us to come and see you.. there is a lot more to explore and we will sure come back again to spend time visiting every corner of this beautiful country.
Back home we have something similar to your “panela”, called “rapadura”.
Nice to know! We have also seen it in Southeast Asia made out of palm.