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- Bogota
- Capital
- Colombian Peso (COP)
- Currency
- 40,349,388
- Population
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Bogota Slideshow
Bogota
Travel Blogs from Bogota, Colombia
Day 4 – Last day in our fav city thus far
... even included more Botero!!!! (Because who doesn't like fat oranges and fat trees). Interesting notes from the museum. Colombia is one of six places in the world that mummified there bodies. Indigenous rights were written into their constitution ...
Rollin' With the Homies
... lack of sleep. The good news we found out is that most of the museums are free this year in celebration of Colombia's 200 year anniversary of their freedom from Spanish rule. The first museum we visited was the Police Museum. Free admission ...
Surprising cold, but things sure heat up at night
The old city center is clean, safe, full of museums and great for a mountainside stroll along the narrow, colonial streets of La Candeleria. The nearby "new" city of skyscrapers is the wave of the future. But, it's in the compact zona rosa area where it ...
Hola desde Colombia!
... . In the first evening in Bogota we went out for dinner but found ourselves in the middle of a student protest! The universities in Colombia are being privatised which means the fees will go up and the young people in the country (many of the are quite ...
La eleccion y la seca
... intercept the goods. Obviously this put a lot of pressure on the likes of Pablo Escobar, who in response started a campaign in Colombia to get a non-extradition treaty with the US written into the constitution so that he could avoid being sent to prison ...
The Big City
29th July 2009 Platypus, Bogota, Colombia (44,000) Very cool Valle de layva - Ubate Ubate - Zapaquira Zapaquira - Bogota ok because I was tired last night I succeeded in overwriting my previous blog entry with this one, damn, this will be a catch ...
Salzkathedrale, Kunst und Gold
... 170m gegangen und von da hat man die Innenstadt dann recht gut gesehen. Ein weiterer Ausflug führte mich 50km nördlich von Bogota in ein Salzbergwerk. Das Besondere an diesem Bergwerk ist das es früher und heute als religiöse Stätte mitgenutzt wird, ...
Letzter Arbeitstag ... jedoch ohne Arbeit :)
... Mexiko City. Allerdings passierte heute noch ein wenig, das erzählenswert ist und den Aufenthalt abrundete bzw. meinen Eindruck von Bogot'' stark verbesserte. Gestern abend ging nicht so viel ab bei mir. Am Nachmittag gab es ein letztes Treffen mit ...
Gott sei Dank ist gleich Wochenende :)
... . Ich möchte nicht wissen, wie viele Stunden (ohne Übertreibung) ich hier schon wartend vor dem PC gesessen habe. Hier in Bogot'' kann man nach dem Öffnen einer Mail ganz beruhigt zum Kaffee pflücken fahren, die Bohnen rösten, und dann in aller Ruhe ...
dumb, dumb, dumb ........ link to Facebook photos
That'll be me that's been dumb and gone and overwritten my blog! Will rectify the situation tomorrow, in the meantime I've been updating Facebook with photos http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=127034&id=698211564&l=a1e2e21a7c ...
Colombia part 2
... with her daughter for coffee. This was one of the best cultural experiences for me on the trip. Anyways, to finish up Colombia, I was on a time limit with my visa and had to get to Quito to meet Chris, I did a horseback riding ...
Successful hires!
... out. I feel sorry for her and I hired her full-time even though there isn't much to do around here yet. My belongings are in Bogota and part of them will be arriving at my apartment this Friday, I think. The rest of the stuff will be delivered in about ...
Day 1
... in the states they would have charged us more than twice as much. Before we left the US, we had made plans to stay in Bogota with a Couchsurfing host named Andres. Unfortunately, he was at work until late in the evening and was unable to help us out ...
Neuer Rätselspass
... gestern noch festhalten. Zwei Sachen hatte ich gestern vergessen zu erwähnen: Zum einen musste jeder auf dem Flughafen in Bogot'' vor Betreten des Flugzeuges sein Gepäck identifieren. Das ist das erste Mal, dass ich bei sowas mitmachen durfte. ...
Bogota
... and manage to avoid getting lost. Its a bit overcast when we go up though so we don´t get a proper view of Bogota. Its still impressive enough up there, Bogota is Columbia´s biggest city with over 7 millon people so pretty large. Apart from ...
Bogota - a serious contender to Buenos Aires
... , yes correct. Bingo :-) Sometimes you just have to go with the local flow. See a picture. Then we visitied the highest building in Bogota, but only 172 meters high. But gave a great view of the city. Rest of the day was spent looking for a book called ...
Bogota - the rest of my trip
... by the many statues throughout the country dedicated to the great man for the Colombian people. The peak that keeps Bogota in it's shadow is the 'cerro de monserrate' upon it peak is placed a church. The church itself ...
Goodbye Southern Cross, Hello Big Dipper
June 30-July 2, 2009: Sao Paolo, Brasil; Lima, Peru; Bogota, Colombia The Airport Mary Loves to Hate Frequent readers will remember the cheap airfare required us to fly roundtrip from Lima to Sao Paolo. So, to get to Bogota from Rio, we had an arduous ...
Bogota - A boozey Christmas with Eddie and Rosey
... come home when it was light, for safety's safe like, so off we went home in the not so wee hours of Christmas day. Now, Bogota, Columbia wouldn´t be the safest now, and we saw plenty and heard plenty to freak us out in the first 2 days, and ...
Leaving Bogota Several Ants Fewer
... those were salt, too) we marveled at the religious carvings and the vastness of the space. Two notable markets we visited in Bogota include the contraband market, San Andrecito, and a huge central market, Paloquemao, where we met a super happy baker, ...
Brogoto
... ? Buhler, Buhler? Crickets. Anyways, if anyone can recommend another great classic to read please suggest it to me. Bogota, Columbia. Not the greatest city to visit! It's high-in altitude, 2800m or so. Yet it's soooo ...
Brrr in Bogota
... Darien Gap, which my guidebook gives instructions for, then warns strongly about the possiblity of being kidnapped. So I was flying. Bogota was interesting, very cosmopolitan, with women dressed very well and all in high heels. It reminded me right away ...
Adventures & Contrasts & Insights through Latin A.
... of locals that have a much thicker wallet than a backpacker. In fact, after spending a few nice days in Manizales, in Colombia's coffee region (beautiful!), I headed straight to Cali, the Salsa and Silicon Capital of Latin America! There I met up ...
The Secret Cock-garden
... to Villa de Leyva, which is in the highlands outside of Bogota. It's meant to be one of the most beautiful towns in Colombia, but we were becoming increasingly sceptical of the guidebook by this point, as some of the things it described as 'fantastic' and ...
I'VE BEEN TO PARADISE!!!!
... going to Costa Rica to go Whitewater rafting. He insisted that I go with him to his "island" on the carribean/Atlantic coast of Colombia. I was skeptical at first, especially since as a kid he had sold me a line of goods and told me he was going to ...
watching time fly by
... two american dudes i´d met in villa de leyva and we hung out, visited the amazing salt cathedral a couple of ours out of bogota (in zipaquira... truly amazing, did not realise how grand it would be), hit up a stupendous place called andres carne de res ...
An artist, a traveler and a bottle of Aguardiente
My journey home from South America was an extremely long and bizarre process. In the 40 hours it would take to go from Santiago to Chicago I would travel into six airports, six different countries (Chile, Peru, Equador, Columbia, Canada, USA) and have ...
