The road to Manizales

There are 2 roads that will take you from Honda to the zona cafetera: one is the quick one via "La linea", the other one is, according to the owner of "casa belle epoque", just a bit steeper, with beatiful sceneries and hopefully open.....
We took our chances and went for road 2.
In a typical Colombian mountain road you can normally expect to see the following:

1) beatiful sceneries

2) speed bumps
3) holes of all sizes
4) 3 little pigs forming a perfect line around a corner

I am afraid by the time we took the picture the perfect line was broken
5) road works fixing a recent avalanche with half line available and alternate traffic (Pare/Siga)
6) an old man, just around the corner, in the middle of the road dragging uphill an impossible pile of wood
7) a truck lying on 1 side

and finally, when the climb is over and you begin your descent, thinking "I have seen it all", being overtaken by a mini push bike with not 1 but 2 kids on board with no brakes cornering at 40 miles per hr using their flip flops to break (not that they do that anyway).......