Posts in Tag: bogota
-
Botero Museum – Love it or Hate It – You Decide
This is my final post from the great city of Bogota, Colombia, an underrated and under appreciated South American capitol that is undergoing a renaissance ever since the end of the drug cartel wars over a decade ago. Alison and I are in Colombia on a tour with Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad and the […]
-
Gold Museum Bogota – Colombia as El Dorado
This is my fifth post on a recent Adventures Abroad trip to the wonderful country of Colombia where I found the people extremely friendly and outgoing, the food amazingly good and the variety of things to see and do off the charts. The first four posts all deal with the city of Bogota and surrounding area. […]
-
La Candelaria – Where Street Art Reigns Supreme
This is my fourth post on my trip to the wonderful country of Colombia with Adventures Abroad. You can find the first two describing our activities on the first day on this website. Day two began with an ascent by funicular up to Monserrate, the sacred mountain that overlooks Bogota where we enjoyed fantastic views […]
-
Monserrate – Bogota’s Top Attraction
This is the third post from Colombia during the on going eleven day trip to that country with Adventures Abroad. The first post was an introduction to Bogota and the wonderful Paloquemao Market, while in the second we headed to the small city of Zipaquira to see the Catedral de Sal and play a game of tejo. […]
-
Bogota Market – A Great Introduction to Colombia
This is the second in a series of posts on the South American country of Colombia. In the first post I mused on whether or not Alison and I would find Colombia to be the stereotypical Latin American violence ridden banana republic or a country finally at peace with itself. Well the answer became readily apparent […]