La Candelaria of Bogotá has numerous well-preserved colonial houses with different colors. It´s simply stunning.
Botero´s take on Mona Lisa. Fernando Botero is a renowned Colombia artist whose paintings are funnily mostly fat people!
Iglesia de la candelaria, a colonial church.
A young Colombian selling a yummy street snack called óblea´, which is a thin waffer sandwich with fillings of your choice. I had one with cream cheese, cheese, raspberry mermalade and peanuts.
This is the highlight of all Colombian food snack: A mixed juice smoothie called ´salpicón´absolutely blew me away!
A Christmas tree is already up in Plaza de Bolivar.
Capitolio Nacional in Plaza de Bolivar.
La Alcadia, the mayor´s office, in Plaza de Bolivar with pigeons and locals hangouts.
Numerous bogotános hung out around Plaza de Bolivar on Sunday.
Bogotá´s star attraction, Museo de Oro (Gold Museum), features hundreds pieces of gold in pre-Hispanic cultures. This one is a tribe´s leader´s outfit of Quimbaya, a culture near the modern time Antioquia, Caldas, Risaralda and Quindío area.
A beautiful gold display in the Museo de Oro.
A Sunday flea market selling junks in Parque de los periodistas in the backdrop of Cerro de Moserrate.
Quinta de Bolivar, South America´s Liberator Simón Bolivar´s old house.
On top of Cerro de Monserrate, you can have a birdeye view of Bogotá. It´s a huge city!
Beautiful flowers, one of Colombia´s greatest treasures, in Cerro de Monserrate.
On top of Cerro de Monserrate, there are a series of sculptures of the Fallen Christ documenting the journey of Jesus being executed on the cross. It´s very touching with lots of details.
To go up Cerro de Monserrate, you can either walk, take funicular (tram) or teleférico (cable car). I did the latter one.
Birdeye view of Bogotá through the window of the cable car.
Another beautiful view of the streets in La Candelaria.
Bogotá is not just about historical architecture, it has a modern touch as well with the bus system of Transmilenio, which is just like a metro system, but with buses not underground trains. I love Colombia! It´s a sentiment that I have felt since I was on the plane to Cali. The Colombian people are very welcoming, genuine, sincere, down-to-earth and proud of their country. When we arrived in Cali waiting for getting off the plane, a Colombian named Alfonso started chatting with me and asking me where I´m from and stuff. We kinda chatted along the way, and then he even offered to give me a ride! I kindly declined although I really appreciated his offer. And he helped me looking for a casa de cambio to exchange some Colombian pesos. Colombians are very well-mannered regardless of their age, social classes or which part of the country they are from. Just this aspect has made me fall in love with this beautiful country!
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