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| Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to eat sausages |
Oh oh, danger, the tourists were hungry and bus-weary. Even more danger: one of the popular sausage restaurants in Santa Rosa de Cabal beckoned to us. La Portada Campestre No. 2 (Sector la Postrera, Km 1 Via, Santa Rosa de Cabal, Risaralda, Colombia) is a road house famous for its sausages and hearty meals. Hmm, the entire town is famous for its sausages. Great town.
The sausage-master works out on the sidewalk at the charcoal grill. You can see what you will get. Many rural Greek restaurants are set up like this, too. If you do not want a sausage, a mega steak will satisfy your most carnivorous needs.
The cooks in the kitchen make the other parts of your meal.
Indoor or outdoor dining - everyone was having a good time.
Jeep art was the theme here, along with sausage art, of course. This was well-done folk art.
Traditional Willys and similar real Jeeps from the 1940s and 1950s are popular here in the coffee-growing country. Many have been restored and have become cultural icons. A coffee planter told me that these Jeeps were imported after World War II to replace mules on coffee plantations. These old ones were narrow, light, and had narrow tires, perfect for steep hillsides and muddy trails. The bloated soft play-Jeeplets favored in American suburbia are too wide and unreliable for real work on coffee plantations.
After this immense meal, we proceeded back to Cali, snoozing off as we digested. Thank you for riding along!
Our next destination was Cartagena de Indias, the lovely tropical sunny town on the Caribbean:
Getsemaní district
Old Town
