Written by cMilena80 on August 31, 2006
- 4) It is not hot! Don't think that because it is in the "tropics" it will be warm. Bogota is the 3rd highest modern city in the Americas (after La Paz and Lima), and because...
Written by roy on September 25, 2000
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The next day to Bogota. We had a little problem with air in the brakes and had it repaired at Auto Imperio in Bogota along with the cracked support they found to the right front...
Written by roy on September 25, 2000
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April 15, 1996
Folks, So many of our friends have asked us about our trip to South America we felt that a note from time to time would keep everyone abreast of the trip. The...
Written by Whirlwind on December 3, 2000
- A wonderful experience when visiting any tropical Latin American country is guarapos--the squeezed juice of cane sugar. And don't worry about the brown color of this delicacy! Squeezed by hand or squeezed by...
Written by Whirlwind on October 3, 2000
- My last night at the missionary compound I played cards with the family of a mission pilot who was out on duty. After a few hands the lights flickered, then died. The guerrillas had sabotaged...
Written by Whirlwind on October 3, 2000
- It was a cool, damp, fall-like but sunny morning the first time I buzzed into Bogota's Aeropuerto Internacional. Customs ignored me entirely and I was about to exit the airport altogether when I spotted...
Written by guille88 on August 18, 2001
- One of the most impressive things about Bogota is the landscape that surrounds the city. There are always mountains in the background, most of them covered by beautiful pine or eucaliptus forests.
And between all...
Written by guille88 on August 13, 2000
- Bogota has a huge offer for dinning. Few cities in South America (maybe Buenos Aires) have a wider number of choices. You can find great restaurants of typical Colombian food, as well as international,...
Written by aldair10 on December 2, 2004
- 1 PESO = 100 centavos.
There are coins in the following peso denominations: 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 500 and 1000 pesos.
There are paper notes in the following peso denominations: 1,000, 2,000, 5,000,...
Written by Metayel on March 8, 2001
- Amazing cathedral dug underground in a salt mine. Hard to explain exactly what this place is and how interesting it is; it is worth a visit for sure! It is around 1 to 1.5 hours...
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