The hike up to Tres Cruces

One cool thing about Cali is that everywhere you go, you can see MOUNTAINS either to your right or left side. These mountains are very beautiful, very big, and very green. But, if you look closely at the top of the mountains (almost at any point in Cali), you can spot the 3 small crosses at the very top, aka TRES CRUCES. Tres Cruces is a popular hiking spot that gives a great overlook of the city of Cali. On a normal weekday and weekend, Calenos will hike up to Tres Cruces 6am and are sitting at work by about 9am. So hiking up Tres Cruces is a pretty typical part of life for Calenos here. Because I found out how popular Tres Cruces was for a good hike, I decided to go up with a few friends. Just to be safe, we also went up with 2 dogs which protected us the whole way through!

 Here are some pics of the way up to Tres Cruces and the way down from Tres Cruces:

 The picture above was taken when we first arrived to the site of Tres Cruces. Although not pictured here, there were plenty of fruit vendors at the site selling FRESH FRUIT DRINKS. It was exactly what I needed after a long hike. I particularly had a typical Colombian fruit drink called SALPICON (with real fruit chunks inside of pineapple, mango, melon, banana, papaya, etc. etc. etc.) It was absoultely DELICIOUS!

The pics here were taken on the way back down from Tres Cruces, where you could see Cali from afar. By this time, the sun had come out and gave us some good company...also making for nice and bright pictures with plenty of light :).

Starting our way up to Tres Cruces at 7am, and going for a 1.5 hour hike up to Tres Cruces and a 2.5 hour hike back down from Tres Cruces, we had finally finished the hike! Although the total hike should have averaged about 2 hours, we were just happy to have completed the Tres Cruces CHALLENGE.