Eric and the hand

Bogota and the finger - Bogotá y el dedo

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July 13th 2012
Bogota is safer than it used to be but when they give you a street map they still fold it in two and say don't go to the other half. While in Bogota it was nice to visit the older original part of the town (see first photo). Like Caracas, Bogota is also a city partly surrounded by mountains. I also visited the museum largely dedicated to the works of Fernando Botero (born 1932). While ther ... read more

South America » Colombia » Bogota

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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