Fruits
Thursday, September 7
One of the best things about Colombia, besides the beautiful landscape and the good coffee, was the availability of incredibly delicious, fresh fruit!
During our four-week-stay in Colombia, we had the opportunity to try so many different types of fruit that we had either never tasted before or didn't even know these fruits even existed. In Colombia we had fresh guava, guanabana, lulo and the tree tomato Tamarillo for the first time and it was really exciting to try these new to us fruits. But it wasn't just the fruits that were new to us that were super tasty: the fruits we were familiar with, such as bananas, pineapples and papaya, also obviously tasted fresher, riper and therefore completely differently here in Colombia than in Germany. The fact that these fruits grow locally and can be harvested ripe was also evident from the size of the fruits. The Colombian papayas and avocados were simply about three to four times larger than the mini specimens of the same variety that gets shipped to Germany and sold there. Because there was such delicious, ripe fruit available everywhere here, freshly squeezed fruit juices and smoothies of all kinds could be bought in every restaurant and on every corner in Medellín. For me that was an absolute highlight of our time in Colombia!
