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  Bogota, Colombia
Friday, September 30, 2011

We arrived back in Bogota after a lengthy night of flying, first to Myrtle Beach then to Fort Lauderdale before finally arriving back in Colombia. We got a taxi back to our hostel to discover that our bags were indeed still there, and that the chilli we had made before leaving was also still lurking in the freezer, result! We just hung out for the rest of the day, recovering from lack of sleep and getting back into the swing of the South American lifestyle.

The next day was Saturday so we rallied ourselves and set ourselves the task of seeing a few of the sites around the city, we therefore went to Simon Bolivar's house. Bolivar has a pretty impressive résumé, having liberated Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama and Bolivia from Spanish oppression. His house was a lovely hacienda overlooking Bogota, with a large garden with many different types of flowers about, as well as numerous statues commemorating his achievements. We poked around his house/museum for a while, with numerous items intriguing us, although none so much as his tiny piano. Afterwards we headed out for some coffee then out for a meal before hitting the hay reasonably early again to catch up on some more sleep.

On Sunday we went up the funicular on Monserrate, the 3152m mountain that overlooks the city. On the top of the mountain is a church and some cafés, as well as a street of craziness that is an unofficial medley of street vendors and dirty cafés selling all sorts, including pigs trotters and guinea pig. The ride itself up the funicular (a cross between an elevator and a train) was quite enjoyable, even for someone like myself who does not like heights, while the views at the top were quite spectacular. It was a a relatively clear day, so we could see all over the city. We had some empanadas at one of the wee cafés, and had a look round the various sites there were to see before returning back to level ground by the funicular again. We could have taken a cable car, but it looked a bit more intense, and we decided to save ourselves for the Quito cable car. We headed back for lunch and had our chilli before getting packed and ready to move on again. We originally planned to backtrack on our route up to Bogota, but we found a new destination that was equally as accessible for Ecuador, so our next stop is Mocoa and the Casa Del Rio.

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Eilidh in Bolivar's Garden	Statue of Bolivar	Eilidh on top of Bolivar's Bath House	Zach on top of Bolivar's Bath House
Bolivar's Tiny Piano	Canons	Church on top of Hill	Zach & Bogota
Eilidh and the church on top	Zach in front of church	Statue	Velvety Plants
Eilidh up the hill	Zach going to funicular station	Funicular	Eilidh in the coffee shop
The hill & cablecar	Funicular track	Funicular	View from funicular
Funicular track

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