Bogota, Colombia
Location Description
170 photos
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My first morning in Bogota, I checked into a youth...
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So, I took a short walk past the University of the Andes...
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From the top of the gondola, it was just a short walk to...
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Here is sprawling Bogota. Almost 200 square kilometers....
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A zoomed-in shot of La Candelaria, the colonial...
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Some tourists gaze out at the city. A large statue of...
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Outside the church, framing the statue on the far mountain.
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Church steeple of Montserrat.
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Inside the church, as mass was just beginning.
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Bogota's newer business district. At the left is a...
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Another shot of the Montserrat church and surrounding complex.
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Instead of riding the gondola, you could walk up stairs...
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Some gardens at Montserrat.
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What a fun job: these guys got to go out on the cables...
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Riding the gondola back down, but looking the other way....
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Hard to imagine there's a trail up this. The...
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There was a third option to get to the top besides the...
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So, my guide sent me to his bank to try to wire him...
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I stopped for an empanada on the street. It was...
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The window of a hat store. I thought this looked cool. ...
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Menu board at a soup shop I meant to check out but never...
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Plaza de Bolivar. There were probably more pigeons than people.
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Church seemed to be closed for some sort of renovation work.
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I think this is the equivalent of the Capitol building...
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The gondola to Montserrat as viewed from Plaza de Bolivar.
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Pigeons pigeons everywhere. I actually found a kid...
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The church and pigeons.
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Simon Bolivar gets no respect these days.
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I only took this picture to illustrate a business...
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Bolivar, looking out over the Andes.
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Kids playing with pigeons and eating food. What could go wrong?
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The food was surprisingly cosmopolitan, perhaps because...
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Arepas: cornmeal pancakes stuffed with queso fresco and...
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My 50 cent arepa. The grease on the wrapper is my...
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Tourist police (and tourist wondering what I am doing). ...
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Colorful ice cream stand.
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My friend Walter had told me that there seemed to be a...
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Later that day, the weather cleared up dramatically,...
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View of the Andes from the courtyard inside the Botero museum.
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This was actually by far my favorite museum exhibit in...
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Here is a look at the redesigned Swiss passport from a...
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I believe this is a Swiss franc note, but I am not sure....
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I wanted to make sure I remembered his name.
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Some of Roger Pfund's magazine and poster work.
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more Roger Pfund artwork, not security-document related.
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Here is a painting by Fernando Botero: the man who...
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A plump bowl of fruit by Fernando Botero.
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A plump couple dancing. Apparently Botero has painted...
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Fat bananas.
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An original Picasso. I think it was called something...
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On my last full day in Colombia, I decided to take the...
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Looks like they have Zara (the Spanish version of Gap) here.
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So, people never believe me when I tell them that my...
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Mega-malls in Bogota. McDonalds, Diesel and D&G. I...
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They even have Dunkin' Donuts in Bogota! As a sidenote,...
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Catherine, this shot's for you. I thought you'd like...
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A rather pretty open drainage canal. North of Zona...
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Parque 93. Seemed nice enough. This was a surprisingly...
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Nice rug shop.
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My last stop was the Museo del Oro, or Museum of Gold,...
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Hand-made gold necklace. This was made without molds,...
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Gold nose rings that were made to look like bats. ...
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Very impressive solid gold boat with shaman and other...
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Colombia seemed to be into these combo-eateries of...
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In the middle of La Candelaria, a peasant couple leads a...
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After the gold museum, I had a few hours to kill before...
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Fun trivia tidbit about Colombia: they don't have a...
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Monica and I eat breakfast in our hostel in Bogota,...
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An old truck on the streets of the Candelaria, Bogota.
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Riding the funicular to the top of Monserrate.
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Through a tunnel!
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Here we are on Monserrate.
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Looking down at sprawling Bogota below.
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First day in the country, it's easy to find yourself out...
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Cow hoof canteen? I wonder if customs would let this...
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A snack cart where we obtained a snack on Monserrate.
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Animal insides!
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Crazy non-GMO #2 corn that other countries without...
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A dog, who looked more like a bear.
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Students on a field trip at Monserrate. We had to wait...
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Vinnie and Monica get a lay of the land.
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Getting ready to go back down to town.
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During certain hours of the day, the track-based...
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We were unable to determine what schedule it was that...
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Monica posing on Monserrate.
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Another load of passengers in the cable car.
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Garden on Monserrate.
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Vinnie, relaxing in the garden.
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Interesting succulents on Monserrate.
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Headed back to town.
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Monica enjoys the view.
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The monks had integrated a nearly vertical garden below...
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Riding back to town.
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A retired funicular car.
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Monica pointing out a Korean flag.
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Crazy man with a pet llama who was coming right toward...
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Grains for sale.
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Monica, looking skeptical.
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Chinese restaurant in Bogota!
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Monica taking some photos inside an exhibit at Plaza de Bolivar.
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Maze built to promote something. I forget what at this point.
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Toyota hilux. Would be cool if you could get a truck...
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Vinnie walks past a federal security checkpoint.
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Guard and statue.
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It looks like a church in pajamas! Sort of reminds me of...
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High tech motor barricade.
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Monica and Vinnie at the Military / Police Museum.
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Fun fact about the National Police Museum: All of the...
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What all those insignias mean...
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Hats.
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Guns, lots of guns.
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More guns.
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Guns don't kill people...
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Why does everybody spell John like this in Latin America?!?
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Photographin' guns.
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Pretty sweet artwork, no? It's made with a propane cylinder.
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Our guide tells us about the surrounding buildings.
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Taking a photo of Monserrate through the telescope.
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Interesting looking building.
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Creative photography from days of yore.
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These people are not real.
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Part of their police uniform collection.
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Confiscated custom Harley Davidson from some cocaine gangster.
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As I believe Mahatma Gandhi coined the phrase, live to...
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I like this tall, covered atrium style of architecture....
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Pretty great photo. The National Police Museum was not a...
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Looks fun.
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We should get some of these for our next party.
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If you want to be happy for a day, drink. If you want to...
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Pictures of killed cocaine moguls.
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More guns!
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Good old reliable uzi.
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Most creepy museum display: wax replicas of assassinated...
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Pablo Escobar. Who whould have thought purple Tommy...
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Also not a real person.
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Nice mustache!
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All in all some wonderful mug shots.
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Robot at the National Police Museum.
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Church and Monserrate viewed from Plaza de Bolivar.
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Mid-afternoon snack.
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In Colombia, the locals enjoy their hot chocolate with...
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Interesting wood cut of Paris in the free to the public...
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Next stop: tejo! This is the intellectually invigorating...
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Our friend Gabe? Abe? Who we met at our hostel.
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These disks or stones were very heavy. Sort of like a shot put.
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Monica, throwing iron at TNT.
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Monica and Vinnie and one of our hosts.
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Campo de tejo.
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Children are a very natural addition to an environment...
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Vinnie taking a break.
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I think that's a plastic bottle.
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There we go!
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One of our hosts retrieves our metal throwing discs from...
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Vinnie destroyed part of their brick wall with a mis-aimed shot.
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Girl who was on our flight and then later ended up at our hostel.
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One of our hosts.
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Gabe or Abe celebrating a good shot.
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Our friend from L.A.
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Monica lining up for the pitch.
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Our cab driver turned out to be an alcoholic. Midway...
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On to more civilized times, we got back to the hostel,...
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Our flight for the Amazon was leaving around lunch, so I...
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Garden market a block or two from our hostel.
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Breakfast arepas in Bogota.
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Off to the Amazon!
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Ready for takeoff!
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Joel and Vinnie, ready to fly to the southern hemisphere.
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My awesome $2 haircut.
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Joel, on our Aero Republica flight before take off
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Bye bye Bogota!