Narco Theme Park (Part 1)

Just about a half hour down the road from the Rio Claro refuge is the entrance to what has to be one of the strangest theme parks in the world.

When Medellin drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed by Colombian police in 1993 his eight square mile rural retreat was taken over by the government. At first a nearby town owned it. It may have been their idea to invest about $5 million to try to turn in into a theme park. More recently the national government has taken it over, and appears to be investing even more.

Escobar, who grew up poor in Medellin, and at one time was the seventh richest man in the world according to Forbes, built Hacienda Napoles as a private Eden. He imported African animals to roam the estate. He built a private bullring and go-cart track. There's an airstrip where he flew in from his home in Medellin and where supposedly he shipped cocaine to points north.
The theme park opened in 2007.

It has an African safari theme mixed with a Jurassic Park theme, one water park and another under construction, and the ruins of the Escobar home which has been turned into a grisly museum, recounting the mayhem that Escobar caused with large scale bloody pictures.

All in all a very weird combination.