Here's the 411 on Medellin
If you're interested in Medellin, the host city for this LAPT stop, you might find the following excerpt from the PokerStars program:
If you had the time to do a little traveling around Colombia's 1.1 million square kilometers of land, you could see both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The fourth biggest country in South America, Colombia is home to more than 45 million people, also making it the second most populated country.
Medellin is Colombia's second largest city (behind capital Bogota). More than three million people reside in the area and have helped it rise to become the top industrial city in the country. Nestled in the Aburra Valley and cut in half by the Medellin River, the city is also a center for some of the best nightlife (la rumba) in the country. Travel authorities now call Medellin, known as the "City of Eternal Spring," one of Latin America's safest big cities.
If you're looking for things to do during a day or night off, check out Catedral Metropolitana (Calle & Carrera) for some beautiful architecture, Restaurante Hato Viejo (Carrera 47 No 52-17 La Candelaria) for its stellar menu of local fare, or Zona Rosa (Calles 9 and 10A, and Carreras 36 and 42) for its famous nightlife scene.
We've only been in the city for a day, but we can already tell you this is one of the more impressive cities we've been to in South America,