Bogota - Climbing Monserrate, Dancing & Two Days of Summer (Weeks 4 & 5)
July 9th 2015 On Tuesday, after school, we went on an outing to the city centre. We started at the Parque Indepencia and saw the Planetarium, which was the most advanced in all America when it was built. We saw the Plaza de Toros, which was under renovation so we couldn't go in, which was a large arena build by the Spanish for the bull fighting. Apparently there aren't many left intact because the Colombians go
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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 
