Gold Museum entrance

colombia part 1

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November 5th 2012
We arrived in Bogota, Colombia, at the almost new International Airport, on 31st October 2012. It had been a long day of travel from Manchester Airport in the UK to Frankfurt in Germany and then an 11 hour flight to Bogota on Lufthansa. Val and myself were a little breathless initially because of the high altitude. Bogota is 2,600m above sea level. We are staying at the beautiful spacious ho ... read more

South America » Colombia

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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