What’s the most interesting thing you’ve done as a Local Guide?
The most interesting things that I’ve done are located in Colombia. First I created a community of food lovers in my city that is conformed by people who love everything that is related with food, cooking, eating, recipes, fried or healthy .It doesn’t matter if is street food that cost $1 or to go to a restaurant that cost $20(expensive price in Colombia cost of life).
Normally as we are used to see an (one) influencer that recommend places but is only one normally. Also, we see groups of people that like to play video games, play basketball ,soccer ,board games, practice a languages ,dance , create a business and parting but there is not a group in Colombia to go and taste food because everyone can participate giving advice to the others places or restaurants .
We are community of Colombians that meet together to go to restaurants , helping small restaurants that don’t have the ability to use social media or they are only known by their neighborhoods so we try to go to the less popular restaurants in social media but so popular in the neighborhood.
Small business thanks us to visit them, is so good when they says “ thank you for coming here and show in a Colombia that we have done for more than 30 years to the world”. Most of them are elderly people.
I am so excited when in the beginning I was the only one to give advice which place que are going to eat in the community but after months I was not the only one, so we have a different ones who recommend places for example when one is specialty are places for ice creams, other ones for street food others veggie, others for Colombian food and etc.
In the picture was one of the meetings that we have on Friday in January of 2020 where we met together and eat the traditional “panchochas” bread with a lot of cheese I think is 80% cheese and 20 flavor we chat together we eat together. Seen Medellin because it is in the tops of the mountain.
Other interesting thing that I have done is to help more than 400 visitors personally in my city from other places Colombia or from other countries that come here and contact me by social media .Because, they already know that I’ll help giving local tips to go to the places very unique and typical for Foreigner .they go to a local places these ones that are not in TripAdvisor they have not in newspapers of traveling or forums of traveling. Giving the advices where to go in Colombia what to do in Colombia depending on how many days they have.
About the country that I am the host :Colombia, its most interesting thing is that every eight hours traveling by bus or 45 minutes in a plane ,you will feel a different country, because they talk with a different accent, the behavior ,food ,way of looking are different, so you Will need a lot of a local advice.
The comments of the foreigners when they so they are the only form using the place the rest are local
I remember talking with like a my grandfather and grandmother(the owners of the restaurant).they both wear the owner of a business that sell is Colombian “empanadas” for more than 40 years you notice in their own house we had really good price and delicious food .Talking , they tell us the anecdotes how they create a business, how they create their own sauces that was amazing.
As always says you are More than welcome to Colombia the best country in the world! “Latin Power”
If you haven’t been here or you already being here, you will notice that here is the Magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez.
Nospi/ Nos pillamos /See you