Leaving "La Serana" - Don´t forget to always be careful though!

I spend another day at the property of the hostel "La Serana", just hanging out and writing for a bit, enjoying the beautiful view into the coffee highlands. It is so peaceful and calm here, I am thinking, a great contrast to the hectic and loud city of Bogota, where you always have to watch your back a little bit as you are out alone on the streets of the city center. Here, I feel very relaxed and safe.
As it comes out later that day, actually just half an hour before I want to leave with another girl for the night bus to Medellin, you should still never get reckless, no matter how relaxed you might feel. She went back down to the town by herself to get a couple more things for the bus ride (the hostel is about a 20 minute walk outside of town) and wanted to walk back to the hostel all by herself again in the dark, through the middle of the countryside, instead of taking a taxi for about 6000 COP (less than 3 Euros). 100 m before the hostel she gets robbed by two guys on a motorcycle that threaten her to get her backpack and take off with it within 1 minute, leaving her back in the dark. Luckily nothing happened to her because she gave them what they wanted right away, but a lot of her stuff is gone including all pictures of a 6-months Central and South America trip and a big part of a settled feeling of security and self-confidence.
I had to leave Salento by myself that night, just half an hour later, and believe me, you have no idea how relieved I felt, arriving in my hostel in Medellin safely at 4 the next morning.

Lesson to learn out of that from my subjective perspective:
It is like in every other country, too, you shouldn´t forget to walk around with a good portion of common sense and awareness for your environment and the circumstances surrounding you. You have to know what to watch out for and how to handle yourself considering that, and that´s about it.

I have always been very careful over here, getting advise from locals or foreigners about a place in advance, acting according to it and I never felt in danger. Instead, I really enjoyed to travel one of the most beautiful countries I have ever seen with its extraordinarily friendly people.
If you have doubts, I suggest that you come see for yourself, in my opinion it is more than worth a trip and the slogan fits: (if you know how to handle yourself) the only risk is wanting to stay!