Bogota turns out to be a city with massive contrasts. Rich and poor in particular, though these elemnts of socioty are quite physicaly separated for a change. The North is loaded. Seriously. We go out on a thursday night for dinner up there and feel shabby to the point of embarressment. Everybody is cruising in suits and it looks like the moddle of flasher end London.
The South is so poor we dont have any reason to go there, and La Candalaria, the center is busy and full on.
The first 8 days we spend in Carlos and Angelas flat. Its a pretty sizeable spot, and comes complete with two power book mac computers, high speed internet, cable TV, drum kit and guitars in music room, and six cats. Having said all that, it somehow feels like an arty student flat.
Notthat we complain (apart form the cats which are constantly under our feet)... its free!! And the location is right between the center and the North, so depending if we turn left or right we end up in very opposing spots.
We visit the salt cathedral 50km to the North one days, and its pretty impressive. Theres a massive rock salt mine dug horizontaly into the hill, and a clever architect has used the enterance to do the 15 stations etc.
We spent ages in Bogota.. i will continue this later...
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