The funicular from the cable car

It's impossible to capture just how steep this looks in real life.

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February 18th 2010
As if I wasn't high enough already (Bogotá is at about 2.5km above sea level), yesterday I decided to go a little bit higher - about 500m higher I think. Monserrate is the mountain that towers over Bogotá. On the top of the mountain is a 17th century church and the usual tourist stuff (restaurant, cafe, market selling tourist trinkets etc). So yesterday I set off at about 10am to try to t ... read more

South America » Colombia » Bogota

Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part... ... read more

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