Throwback Thursday

Traveled to South America and Colombia for my first time. I was in the capital, Bogota, most of the time. Before leaving, it's funny how everyone I told that I was traveling to Colombia first asked, "Are you going for work?" I barely travel for work. I think it is safe to assume that in their eyes, Colombia isn't a vacation destination. But really, it is. It's a beautiful country and I only saw 2% of it!!!

Here are some photos out of 800+:

Breakfast is served - homemade fruit drink (contains passionfruit), colombian coffee, freshly made bread, queso crema (cream cheese), scrambled eggs

This game is called Ludo in England and Nigeria, but the Colombian name is called Parqués. Unfortunately I was the first to lose :(

Colombian Pesos (I think $1 was 2000 pesos when I was there) 

Me and my friend at Catedral de Sal (tourist attraction)

The inside of the cathedral....very pretty

The gang

Posing just before the mining tour at Catedral de Sal

Bogota at night (waiting for the moon eclipse at La Paloma)

Rapelling/Trekking/Cycling/Bat cave tour/Farm tour at Nemecon (north of Bogota)

Don't remember the name of this fruit
 

Before the bat cave tour

Entrance to the bat cave

So we're preparing to ride the bikes to the rapelling site. Because I am not in shape, I could not remain on the bike for long without stopping whenever the steep was too high. Ran out of breath too quickly. Since there wasn't enough bikes for everyone, someone used my bike while I remained in the car. I'll come better prepared next time!

See how steep that is and of course I ran out of breath walking upwards

 

I was underdressed and it got cold quick so I decided not to rapell :(  Plus the tour guide took forever to get people harnessed correctly and time was running out (as you can tell)

  

At Mount Monserrate (tourist attraction)

 

View of Bogota from the top

Transmilenio - Bogota's public train system

I definitely need to return! Hopefully I'll be able to see west of Colombia (the Coast side) and speak more Spanish by then.