It's been a few days since we left Bogota. We stayed for four nights. It didn't seem like long enough but we have too many other things that we'd like to do and not enough time. Bogota is a big city. More than 8 million people live there. It has everything anyone could ever want.... in our case this included awesome coffee shops, international restaraunts, super high speed internet, and even a modern cinema megaplex with movies in English. Surrounded by mountains and sitting at a high altitude, the weather is consistantly cool, but not too cold year round. It feels like late October all year. I don't think I'd have any problem living there. We stayed in La Candelaria, the old historic neighborhood in the center. We unknowingly arrived on time for Colombia's bicentenial independence day celebration. The streets were packed with people to the point that in some places we could barely move. The city put on a good fireworks display. Everyone seemed to be having a good time.
The view from in front of our hostal:
Our room.... we shared it with some Australians, an Isreali, and three guys from Chili who snored so loudly that the whole building shook.... amazingly, I got a good nights sleep every night. It was a great hostal. Lisa fell in love with a little kitten named Ginger who lived here:
Colorful streets.... the hills, cool air, nice grafiti, colorful sunsets, and palm trees kind of reminded me of San Francisco
Lots of soldiers all over.... the city felt very safe:
Plaza Central:
We visited a few very old churches. This was our facvorite:
The University museum had a small exhibit on political cartoons, all of them offering commentary on Colombia's bicentenial.... "two hundred years and we have not learned." I'm not sure who is being depicted here:
It's been a few days since we left Bogota. We stayed for four nights. It didn't seem like long enough but we have too many other things that we'd like to do and not enough time. Bogota is a big city. More than 8 million people live there. It has everything anyone could ever want.... in our case this included awesome coffee shops, international restaraunts, super high speed internet, and even a modern cinema megaplex with movies in English. Surrounded by mountains and sitting at a high altitude, the weather is consistantly cool, but not too cold year round. It feels like late October all year. I don't think I'd have any problem living there. We stayed in La Candelaria, the old historic neighborhood in the center. We unknowingly arrived on time for Colombia's bicentenial independence day celebration. The streets were packed with people to the point that in some places we could barely move. The city put on a good fireworks display. Everyone seemed to be having a good time.
The view from in front of our hostal:
Our room.... we shared it with some Australians, an Isreali, and three guys from Chili who snored so loudly that the whole building shook.... amazingly, I got a good nights sleep every night. It was a great hostal. Lisa fell in love with a little kitten named Ginger who lived here:
Colorful streets.... the hills, cool air, nice grafiti, colorful sunsets, and palm trees kind of reminded me of San Francisco
Lots of soldiers all over.... the city felt very safe:
Plaza Central:
We visited a few very old churches. This was our facvorite:
The University museum had a small exhibit on political cartoons, all of them offering commentary on Colombia's bicentenial.... "two hundred years and we have not learned." I'm not sure who is being depicted here:
Pablo Escobar, infamous cocaine trafficker and ruthless murderer of countless people.... in 1989 Forbes magazine named Escobar the seventh richest man in the world, with an estimated personal fortune of 25 billion dollars. At one point he offered to pay off Colombia's 10 billion dollar national debt in exchange for clemency and the opportunity to enter polotics. His offer was declined. Continuosly hunted by Colombian and American agents, he, along with his personal body guard were killed in a shoot out in 1993.
Monserate.... up on a mountain overlooking Bogota.... the views were amazing
Mummy in the Museo Nacional:
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