We arrived in Bogotá 29 January adjusting pretty quickly to the 2640 m (8660 ft) altitude and settled into our Airbnb home in the old town, La Candelaria.
Top: view down our street; Bottom: nearby Plaza de Bolivar, main square in La Candelaria.
Whimsical entrance to our abode; and market where we sampled a variety of exotic fruits we had never tasted before.
A highlight of our stay was mounting Cerro de Monserrate via a funicular. There’s a little story surrounding this event, however. We got taken by a taxi driver, in more ways than one, who would only take credit card and Emri was the only one with a credit card so he offered his. The driver said that it did not function after trying three times. He finally accepted our cash. Later we discovered it was fraud and that we had been taken for 500 bucks. This is Bogotá.
Cerró de Monserrate at dusk.
We hit most of the tourist attractions certainly including the Museo Oro Museum. Museo Botero was my favourite:
A highly recommended Bike Tour did not disappoint. We were taken to a wonderful coffee house, fruit market where we sampled previously unknown exotic fruit, saw authorized graffiti and learned the national sport, Tejo.
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