We arrived in Cali, Colombia after a 30hr bus ride. We were supposed to have been there at 9:00 pm but it was 1 am when we got dropped off on the highway, an hour away from Cali. We found a taxi and at first he wanted $30 but got him down to $20 total. I was super nervous about this as I didn’t have a clue where we were going, the route and because of the time/distance to get there. This is where I could see us getting robbed or taken on an ATM run where they empty my bank account.
We left the bus terminal and the taxi driver pulled into a gas station to fill up. When we went to leave another guy got in the car and I immediately asked who the hell this guy was and why he was in the taxi. The guy said he was the driver of another taxi and before he could finish I stopped him and said “Then he should be driving his taxi as he has no business in this one!” The guy nodded and told the other guy to get out… left a real fishy feeling in my stomach and was on high alert the whole trip until we made it to the hostel. In the end we had not problems and maybe I was just being a little overly paranoid but as a traveler you can never let your guard down and should always trust your instinct. 9/10 your instinct won’t lie!
The next day we did a little walk around Cali, Colombia and saw the town. I’ll be honest, there isn’t much to see in Cali and the only real thing to do is party at night. It’s known for being the salsa capital of the world and other than the nightlife that’s about all there is to see. The people in the city seem to be very friendly and the day we walked around we got lots of smiles from merchants and street vendors. We stopped at a few churches and although I wasn’t all that impressed with them I got some awesome shots of light pouring in through a window where a girl was praying.
Some days when you’re out shooting you get lucky and others days you can walk all day and get nothing, as you never know when that great shot will appear. This is a perfect example of getting a great picture when I thought there wasn’t anything there. We walked around the church for 10 minutes and on the way out I seen the light coming through the window like God was pleasing this girl and stopped dead in my tracks. I could have waited all day to get light like this and goes to show you that you should always have a camera with you when traveling.
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