Bogota

After another short indulgent flight we rolled out of the airport at
Bogota in search of a colectivo - sharedbus into the city centre. We
totally failed. We found ourselves in the taxi queue. A young driver
jumped out and asked 'Platypus?' This was in fact the very hostel we
had chosen from our ancient lonely planet, it obviously has a solid
reputation! It turns out that Playpus owns half the street!
Our first mission was to visit the gold museum - a history of gold
from all over the world, then focusing more on South America. It's a
really good museum, with loads of English info too ;)
Next we went up the cable car to escape the city. Bogota has the same
population as London! The tourist district is pretty small though,
phew. After the cable car we went for a stroll and were approached by
two policemen. They told us the area was not safe then walked us to a
main road to get a taxi! They don't want any problems on their watch!
Our taxi driver then ripped us off, literally a two minute journey to
where we were going. We paid him less then jumped out. We decided that
if he called the police on us, it would be the same two guys who had
put us in the taxi in the first place!
We tried to find a cinema, and failed! People kept sending us back
towards the danger zone, so we just went shopping instead! The central
streets had been pedestrianised for Christmas shopping, I think it was
the Saturday night before Christmas, everyone was out on the town.
Sunday morning we packed up and headed to the airport - we were
heading to Costa Rica! The hostel organised a mini-van taxi for us. I
don't know exactly what was wrong with it, but it was the bumpiest
little van in the world, and the driver seemed to be having difficulty
with the gear box. We were pretty relieved to arrive at the airport in
one piece, with plenty of time for our new favourite restaurant -
Crepes and Waffles :)
On the flight we decided to get into the spirit of it all - rum and
coke please! Oh boy, it was literally rum on the ricks with a dash of
coke in the top. Hmmmm. The guy next to us was chuckling as we sipped
away grimacing! We crumbled and got extra coke and all was well.
Colombia!! Best place ever! Will definitely be coming back to explore
more before all the other gringoes here about it!!!!
Next, Costa Rica!

p.s. I'm way behind on this!!! Trying to catch up!!!!!

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