Traveling South through Columbia

South America
April 28th 2009

Published: April 28th 2009

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CassieandDave

Bogota

Salt Cathedral

We spent a few days exploring Columbia´s capital, Bogota. The city was packed with museums, art galleries, and restaurants as well as impressive buildings. One place we visited was the national police museum, which had a large exhibition dedicated to Pablo Escobar, including his blood stained jacket. Another highlight was the Salto del Kathedral, a massive cathedral caved 160 meters inside a salt mountain, which was really impressive. A weird yet wonderful tradition in the city is dipping pieces of cheese into hot chocolate (a personal favorite of mine but Dave was not such a fan).

We left the capital of culture and headed for the capital of salsa, Cali. Neither of us are major fans of the music but it was amusing having a number of Columbians teaching me Salsa (unsuccessfully i might add). In Cali we also visited Columbia’s biggest zoo which was a great day out and we then went on to enjoy a weekend of Cali´s famous nightlife. Before leaving the city we went swimming in a waterfall in the nearby mountains, which although freezing was amazing.

On our journey South to Ecuador we stopped at Tierradentro national park which contains over 100 ancient tombs.

Tierradentro National Park

Inside one of the tombs

We spent 2 days exploring the valley and admiring the artwork and sculptures in the tombs and staying in a remote village with the the friendly locals. This was our last stop in Columbia as we headed for the border and was a great ending to an amazing country, somewhere we will definately return.

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