Guides
The long answers: how the city works, not just where to eat.
Getting around Cali
The bus, the airport run, the apps and the one rule that catches every driver out.
Read the guideWorking from Cali
The time zone is the reason to come. The rest is knowing where to sit.
Read the guideWhich neighbourhood
Six areas, how the city is really divided, and how to read the numbers you will be quoted.
Read the guideSalsa, from zero
Nobody spends a month in Cali without wanting to learn. Start free on a Friday, then decide.
Read the guideThe practical stuff
Phone, health, water, weather: the boring things you want settled in your first 48 hours.
Read the guideParking
Museums
Theatres
Parks
Restaurants
Shows
Coffee shops
Coworking
Bars
Night clubs
Supermarkets
Pharmacies
ATMs & banks
Health
Laundry
Gyms
Viewpoints
Map
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Who writes this
Mario Payán
Host in Cali · editor of this guide
I host three apartments in Granada, and this guide started as the list of answers I was giving every guest over and over: how to pay for the bus, which café you can actually work from, whether that address on the internet is still right.
The rule here is simple: every hard fact carries the source it came from and the month it was checked. When something cannot be verified — a café's wifi, a bar's opening hours, the going rent in a neighbourhood — this guide says so instead of filling the gap with a number that looks right.
Found something out of date? Tell me and I will fix it — that is the only way a guide like this stays worth reading.
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