There's a cold jaccuzzi if you want, it is scorchio here in the day, and hammocks on each corner of the courtyard. Breakfast is included and is served at big wooden tables in the airy dining room, with views through the glassless windows across the arid mountain valley. Once a grand old house with metre thick walls, a fountain in the central courtyard and a little, two hundred year old wooden balcony in our room, this stunning hostel is worth every penny if only for it's historical charm. Barichara is a magical town and a must see sight and this hostel is the epitomy of Barichara. But actually, it is definitely five strar accommodation in terms of it's central location and absolute Colombian charm. The Color De Hormiga wasn't the hostel we thought we had booked - apparently there's another one just outside of town that is more like a rural retreat, hence we only give it four stars.
Hotels near Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion.Hotels near Casa de la Cultura Emiliano Pradilla Gonzalez.The vocabulary can get relatively sophisticated but visual cues and humor could keep a savvy early reader’s attention-the joy here, though, will more likely involve some performative storytelling that would make Juan Hormiga proud. The scribbly art has a cheerful verve with dynamic compositions and a plethora of frantic motion lines, and the ants themselves are pleasingly odd little dudes with oversized beaklike heads protruding over pudgy bottoms and sticklike appendages. There’s a clever authorial wink as it becomes clear that it’s the usually diligent ants who have the adventure here, and their increasing dramatics over Juan’s possible fates are sure to elicit some guffaws.
This Argentinian import, a delightfully idiosyncratic ode to storytelling, just begs for a readers’ theater performance, balancing the various ants’ emotive musings with a folkloric narrative tone. Their efforts to memorialize him with a flower, though, lead to their finding him ensconced safely in a tree, waking up from a restful nap, blissfully unaware of the drama. The other ants, fantasizing about his adventures, are so lost in their imaginings that they barely have time to escape a sudden storm their wondering turns to worry as they become convinced Juan has been swept away. One day, however, Juan decides it’s his turn to hit the road and gather some of his own stories. Juan Hormiga’s fellow ants don’t mind that he’s not particularly industrious or that he usually shirks ant duties for naptime because they know that he’s the colony’s best storyteller, narrating the extraordinary adventures had by his grandfather to the breathless wonderment of his insect crowd.
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