"just fruit" Top 5 Page for this destination Colombia Local Custom Tip by richiecdisc

Colombia is renowned for its variety and quality of fruit for very good reason. While South America as a continent is noted for fruit I never found it to be on a par with Asia but it seems I had been to the wrong countries before venturing to Colombia. Along with the ubiquitous papaya and watermelon came a plethora of fruit many of which I had never even heard of let along seen before. Perhaps the most exotic was the lulo, a very tart fruit found only in Colombia and a few neighboring areas of adjacent countries like Venezuela. Even within Colombia, it was not an easy find. In the area around Cali it was abundant but still not as popular as we had anticipated. It is not a fruit that is consumed as it but rather best lends itself to fruit shakes, the lulada the prime example. The fruit's very sour flavor plays off well against the added dulce de leche and/or condensed milk. It's an odd seedy green concoction but once tasted, we were surely hooked and looked for it often in vain thereafter.