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Ash arrives, Bogota becomes alive
... we had the biggest and most interesting hot dog bun off the street with cheese, dressings, onion rings etc. very good start for our trip.
After negotiating with the bike company for a lower rate then the 35,000$COP that we should have paid we managed to explain that both Ash and I are in the travel business and that in the long run it will be worth for the company to give us a discount. And so it was. At 10:30 we to our new bikes, with our nifty ...
San Gil&Bogota: Between adventure & city-tripping
... enough the mine still looks nice on picture.
Our second daytrip was luckily much nicer and more beautiful. We took a cable car up mountain Monserrate to enjoy a view over Bogota. We were lucky enough to visit the mountain – 3200m high – on the best day here in Bogota – the city is usually very cold and rainy, but this time it was only slightly cloudy and quite warm. The view on the top was very impressive: this vast city of 8 million people spreads out ...
A Tale of Two Cities
... that Edge hand delivered to me when we met up in Ecuador. He didn't pay for it though unfortunately. I was kind of hoping that he would, especially after he earned precious greenbacks in California for a few months, but apparently the South American bleed has also shown no mercy on his bank account, so I guess he's forgiven. Now let's get back to this tale not of two cities but rather of one crazy capital city called Bogota and one very uncrazy ...
Return to Bogota
... corn. They soak it in water for 24 hours. They then cook the corn for 30 minutes. After cooking it, they grind it with a metal crank grinder, and it makes a fine corn mash that is used to make the arepas.
Several members came over to chat and to see us off for our trip. We were sitting on the terrace chatting and our bags were nearby. It think, Motas the dog, knew we were leaving. He came up to me and nuzzled ...
We have arrived in Bogota!
... bottle of water. The others had french fries or a hamburger and Scott had Cream of Asparagus soup, which he said was excellent.
We had a great time catching up, reminiscing and laughing. We made some tenative plans for the week, and got a few phone numbers which we may need. We called it at night about 10:30 PM. After not sleeping the night before because I was so exctied about coming, I was looking forward to a good night's rest.
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