¡Hola Bogotá! Perched at 2800m, this colourful capital city is a mishmash of architecture - from the charming, shabby colonial streets to the dull, grey towering financial buildings. Not exactly a place you visit for the weather, the high altitude brings cooler days and cooler nights.. and the rainy season was beginning! Oh boy! Arriving bleary eyed after a sleepless 11+ hour flight, we decided to embrace the local taxi rank instead of our dearly loved Uber. Lucky for our new driver, she was the first victim to practise our very little Spanish on, which she happily entertained. Sadly she was totally useless as a taxi driver and we spent 15 minutes of 30 minute jouney roaming around the dark, lifeless, narrow streets in the early hours. She FINALLY got us to our destination, but not
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