Hotel Marques de la Plata Bogota

... brauchten auch fast den ganzen Tag, weil auch Stau war, weil alle wieder in die Stadt zurückwollten. Wenn wir das nächste mal wegfahren, werden wir erst Montagabend fahren. Dann ist man zwar Dienstags im Projekt etwas matschig, aber man hat mehr vom Tag und muss nicht im Stau stecken!<br><br>So, ich versprech euch bald mal mehr übers Projekt und die Teilnehmer zu schreiben! ;)<br><br>Que todos estan muy bien!<br><br>Muchos Besos<br><br>Toni

... and a torch, particularly if you like to read. The rest of the journey was fairly uneventful except for an incident just after midnight. <br><br>We stopped at a bus terminal seemingly in the middle of nowhere, Christie, Jody and Niamh were asleep. About 6 new passengers got onto the bus which I thought was a bit odd since there were only 3 seats available. The first three took the available seats and the other three shrugged their shoulders and got off ...

... It tasted lovely though, like a strong pork flavor and the crackling was great.<br><br>Next stop was Popayan where we spent a few days in this nice colonial town. We spent most of our time in town visiting the sights and sampling the local foods and coffee. To our surprise the coffee tasted horrible. So much for Colombian roast. After Popayan we took our next death ride to Manizales. When we got there our taxi driver appeared to understand where our hostel was and we ...

... walk up Two and a half blocks and you will find a purple and white building - the DN house - in the middle of the block on your left hand side. From the Central Bus terminal. After getting out of the terminal, catch the bus number "C-23 Moralba Germania". Ask the driver to tell you to get off at Carrera 4th with Calle 11th at the Library Luis Angel Arango. Then walk up Two and a half blocks and you will find a purple and white building ...

... of the commercial centre at the base, and the vast entirety of Bogota sprawling beyond. If one was to look on the other side of the hill, one would find almost no evidence of civilisation at all. It made for a striking contrast. All during this day, Diego provided me with any Spanish vocabulary I needed and I jotted it down in a little note-book. The following day myself and Diego went to the Museo de Oro (The Gold Museum). It supposedly has the finest collection of pre-hispanic gold ...

My time in Bogota is coming to a close, after almost 5 days - and it´s been good. Seems that unlike Central American capitals, the South American ones are actually well worth a visit.<br><br>On the first evening in the hostel, some model agency girls were asking around for 8 gringo guys and 2 girls to act as extras in the Colombian soap ´Las Detectivas´ - apparently a Latin American Charlie´s Angels type production. The thought of 3 hot Latin ...

... siden paa hostelworld.com, hjalp ikke det dem noe som helst, for de hadde nemlig ikke internett.. De hadde helt fullt, og det eneste de kunne tilby var sovesal med 10 personer. Det var ikke ho med den brekte armen saa keen paa, saa da brukte vi en halvtimes tid paa aa finne veien til Pension Las Palmas. Det er et slags adopsjonshotell vi har vaert foer, og gjensynsgleden var stor!! De huska til og med hva vi het! :) ...og heldigvis hadde ...

... of the various revolutionary figures, but most of these names we did not recognize. At one point they have retained one of the cells as it was originally and this contains lots of original fittings like the bars and locks and shackles. They also showed copies of some of the prison graffiti that had been discovered when they were renovating and presumably why they choose this cell was because it had an original drawing of a group of ships still on the ...

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... 14th of November we finally landed again in Bogotá, exhausted. Avianca, the Colombian national airline, had done a fine job: a hotel was booked for us, and buses were waiting at the door. By the time they had explained everything to us and we finall got our rooms, it was 3:00 AM... I shared my room with a lovely young Frenchwoman, Laure, which helped a lot in feeling a bit better. :) We crashed on our beds fully clothed without washing or anything ...