Facatativá

Just visited the town of Facatativá (or Faca for short). It's just a short drive west of Bogotá. It is famous for  an archeological park called Las Piedras de Tunjo. The best part of the trip is listening to guy hang out of the bus yelling "Faca Faca Faca Faca Faca" over and over again.

 A view of part of the town from the highway.

The main square.

Plantain plant. It is very big. About twice my height.

Indigenous sculptures from the Muisca tribe.

Didi underneath a rock.

Evidently I didn't the memo on the dress code.

The Colombian president's rock. $5 to whoever can name them.

We tried our luck on a paddle boat.

Colombian desserts :)

Fruit salad :)

Facatativá is a very nice town! I liked it.

Saludos desde Bogotá

Summit of the Americas - Cartagena

Greetings!

Didi was lucky enough to be in Cartagena for the Summit of the Americas. The Summit, which is just a fancy way of gathering world leaders to hang out, eat expensive food and ultimately reach no consensus on any policies. All of the heads of states for every country in the Americas, except Cuba who was not invited, and Rafael Correa of Ecuador who refused to come because Cuba was excluded.

Didi took some great pictures. I thought I would share them with you. She even saw Obama's motorcade, as he was staying down the street from her. His motorcade consisted of 30 cars and a trailing helicopter. (and that's without the Secret Service agents that were busy taking in the scenery...)

Here is the CNN news boat. Not really sure why they have one. But it is pretty cool looking. (There are replica pirate ships behind it)

This is where the summit was held.

Do you remember these nice women? They were quoted saying Obama is "cute" and "beautiful." I'm jealous.


That's all for now!

Saludos desde Bogotá!

Downtown

Here are some pictures of downtown.

Downtown is in the background ;)

That's all for now!

Saludos desde Bogotá!

Random Photos

Greetings!

Here are some random pictures from around Bogotá.

 A beautiful day in Bogotá.

Rosales. One of the wealthiest if not the wealthiest neighborhood in Bogotá.

Cool graffiti. Pineapple grenade.

7am on a chilly Bogotá morning.

I don't know what to make of this. If it's real, it's hilarious. Ride your donkeys only on the street. Maybe it used to be a bike.

More cool graffiti.

Panorama of downtown. Bancolombia's (Colombia's largest bank) headquarters is dead center.

A chicken tied to a bench. mmmm lunch!

Greetings from Bogotá!

Panoramas

90 degrees of Bogotá looking straight south.

The same shot but at night.

90 degrees looking due north.

These pictures were taken from Colpatria Tower. As far as I know, Colpatria Tower is the talles building in Bogotá.  It is 196 meters tall and was completed in 1979. 

This is Colpatria Tower. It is beautiful at night with changing lights that span the entire building.

Well, now I'm off to conquer Monserrate on foot.

Saludos desde Bogotá!

Pictures

Downtown Bogota through the trees.

Mountains

Sunset

Speeding taxi

Bus that looks like an insect.

La Calera

Greetings! A couple of weeks ago I went to La Calera, which is a town located right next to Bogota. It's so close, you can still see Bogota from it. Here are a couple of pictures.

Fireworks!

I'm going to post more pictures soon.

Saludos desde Colombia