Casa Dann Carlton Hotel Bogota

... company and when the line was inaugurated its length was 40 km. In 1887 a new contract took place for the construction of the Zipaquira line. In time, the railways expanded across the Bogota Savannah reaching a length of about 200 km. The railway was liquidated in 1991 along with the National Railways of Colombia but lead the way for the Tourist train enterprise. The idea of tourist trains with steam locomotives in Bogota was born 1992. When the trains ...

... Mädel irgendwohin begleitet hab. Mich hats echt aufgeregt und ich sagte zu Maria Helena (die grade mit mir unterwegs war) &#8222;ich komm mir vor als wäre ich die einzige Frau in der ganzen Stadt!&#8220; und sie lachte und meinte &#8222;nicht die einzige Frau, aber die einzige Deutsche!&#8220; <br><br>Tja das triffts ziemlich gut. <br><br>Werd mich wohl dran gewöhnen müssen! =)<br><br>Also machts gut, der nächste Eintrag kommt bald!<br><br>Besitos Toni

... der Bar, die sahen aber alle ziemlich bonzig aus (wie mir dann auch aufgefallen ist). Und Wveimar hat mir heute erzählt, dass es ziemlich viele solcher Diskos gibt! Wir Ausländer sind alle ohne Probleme reingekommen, aber von den Kolumbianern wollten sie alle den Ausweis sehen.<br><br>Wir sind dann auch raus und wollten denen erklären, dass wir Geburtstag feiern und dass die 3 zu uns gehören, aber das hat die kaum gejuckt. Omar hat sich eigentlich kaum aufgeregt, ich glaube er ...

... program.<br><br>To be fair, I didn't give Bogota a shot, but it is basically a congested, modern and somewhat rundown Latin America city. In a country of 45mm people, nearly 1 out of 5 lives in its capital (8mm). It is not a particularly attractive or unique place. There are supposed to be some nice museums and the night life is supposed to be exquisite, but given we just came from a great city (Rio) and had less than three weeks in Colombia ...

... br><br><br><br>We booked through netflights.com a<br>Thomas Cook subsidiary and paid £578 one way, for both of us. <br>It's not all good though, TAP lost the bikes en route but it<br>only took 24 hours to get them back. We were compensated 100 US dollars<br>for the inconvenience, payable in local currency, which turned out to<br>be not very much. More about the black market later. A word of<br>warning, the 100 they paid is for luggage, per person, and although it ...

... exhibits on ancient gold-working methods, which explained how the indigenous people had learned to create various alloys and formations from gold and other metals, and how they had learned to work these using materials such as clay and wax. Fascinating! I also enjoyed reading about the ways that gold was used in various shamanistic rituals, acting as a means for transfiguration into different animal forms, and travel into different spiritual planes. The museum even had a brief ...

... and we were only able to stay 4 days in Gran Sabana. Steve was a great travelling companion and we really enjoyed his great sense of humour and company during the trip but it was a time to say goodbye. Maciek and I booked ourselves to the same hostel I stayed in before The Michelle. It suited us nicely as the place offered the cheapest accommodation for the night, costing us only 20,000 Bolivares for the two of us. This is equivalent to $10 if you ...

... Lots of grey ****** highrise housing to go along with the sprawl that creeps its way out of the valley in all directions. Ali told me that people just build where there is land, providing it's not too steep and not part of the protected parks. Landmarks tend to be vandalised and not maintained anyway. Not a nice place. My guide describes it as "the least secure of all Venezuelan cities. Petty crime, robbery and armed assaults are increasing, especially at night."

... is a well-built local man with a thin moustache in my chair, and he won`t budge. I get Rachel to take her seat next to him and I start trying to find out why he´s in my seat. He won´t show me his ticket and people in adjacent seats mutter about the bus company double-selling the tickets. The bus driver holds his hands up in the air and refuses to get involved. There are other seats, so I point them out to the man but he refuses to move. Rachel ...

... down the front. Whilst the SamBil mini-society enjoys this "temple of consumerism", a couple of miles down the road most Venezuelans are way too poor to afford any luxuries at all. Much of Caracas's suburbs are a long sprawl of slums which climb up the sides of the valley around the city. Unemployment is high and gunfights are common, apparently, but you would never know this from being in Altamira or driving in from the airport along the highway where there are ...