Bogota, Colombia (Jun 2-10)
We arrived finally in Bogota, Colombia after a 17 hour bus ride…wow!! We met two Irish guys named Darrah and David on the bus and then shared a cab and a room in a hostel. We walked around Bogota´s old town and explored, it´s beautiful. The old city is full of old churches and cobblestone street and the whole city is surrounded by mountains. That night we had beers with Dave and Darrah and some Aussies we met (Franky, Tuna, Michael, Cameron). Oh… and the hostel owner is super nice and has given us free beers.
We took two buses to a town called Zipaquira with the Irish and Aussies dudes. We went to a really sweet underground Salt Cathedral. It was amazing! It used to be an underground salt mine and is now cathedral 200 meters underground. The awe and beauty of the cathedral was disturbed by a new addition to the area: an underground salt conference center. We saw a super cheesy 3D movie in the conference room which was pretty lame and funny. After the cathedral we walked around Zipaquira and had some tasty food and then returned to Bogota. Later that night we all went to a club/bar area called Zona Rosa that was really expensive, 7000 pesos for a beer which is about 3.50 CAN which is ridiculous for South and Central America.
Everyone decided to to see a movie today…Indiana Jones in a super modern shopping mall. Three dollars for the movie. We had popcorn which we had been craving for a long time and the rest of our crew had McDonalds.
There are lots of free museums in Bogota so we went with Michael and checked out the Gold Museum and The Fat People Painting Museum (forgot the name) and then checked out some markets. We relaxed back at the hostel at night for some beers with everyone.
We booked our flight to Lima, Peru so we have been relaxing around the hostel and taking care of important things like updating this blog and doing laundry which was greatly overdue.
