Here is the detail of our day of tour of Bogota capital of Colombia. We had booked the entire 2nd day of our 3 week tour in Colombia to this city tour.
BOGOTA VISIT PROGRAM
- Monserrate viewpoint
- Currency Museum
- Emerald cutting workshop
- Visit of the historic center, La Candelaria
- Lunch in a traditional restaurant to taste typical dishes
- Visit to the Botero Museum
What to see in Bogotá – Mirador Monserrate
Our guide recommends that we leave early to go directly to the cable car that provides access to the Mirador. Indeed, usually from 10 am, a crowd of tourists disembarks and thus forms an endless queue at the cable car ticket office.
Good advice since at 9:30 am, we quietly climb to 3 meters to find ourselves at the top of the Monserrate Hill. Round trip price: 20 COP or around 000 Euros.
The view is spectacular: BOGOTA proudly spread out in front of us under a clear sky!
What to see in Bogota – Currency Museum
It is here that the first gold coins of Latin America were minted in 1621. This is the Maison de la Monnaie which keeps the numismatic collection of the Bank of the Republic. It exhibits most of the pieces that have circulated in Colombia since the beginning of the XNUMXth century. Visit which can quickly become boring ...
What to see in Bogota – Emerald cutting workshop
Tourist trap visit because of course we end up selling jewelry at exorbitant prices… So I strongly advise against it!
What to see in Bogotá – La Candelaria
It is in the rain that we will walk in this BOGOTA district. Apart from some graffiti and a few colorful houses, we don't WOW and we quickly went around ...
What to see in Bogota – The BOTERO Museum
There, on the other hand, I really enjoyed myself! Here is a museum which allows you to discover an artist whose works are easily identifiable but whom one does not really know well ... His family, his social environment, his region, his development, his exhibitions ... all this information helps to better understand his paintings and its sculptures but also the daily life of Colombians in recent years.
I was able to appreciate his own works (a hundred drawings, paintings and sculptures) but also his private collection which brings together paintings by Renoir, Chagall, Picasso, Miro… and a magnificent sculpture signed by my favorite DALI!
Eat in a traditional restaurant
On the good advice of our guide, we settle in a restaurant with retro baroque decor in the heart of the Candelaria . This is the restaurant EL SON DE LOS GRILLOS, one of the oldest restaurants in BOGOTA (over 30 years).
After a small salad, we tasted the specialty of the Capital: the ajiaco. It's a hearty soup made with papas, corn, chicken, rice, cream of milk, capers and served with a whole corn on the cob. We liked it.
Then, more classic, we took the black pepper chicken accompanied by rice and avocado.
All for 29 COP or around 000 Euros! Note that each dish ordered was split in two because the portions are huge ...
My impressions of BOGOTA
Is it because of the rain or because of all that we could hear on the dangerous side of this city or because we were exhausted by the flight of the day before and the jet lag… but I can say that I do not did not particularly appreciate this city.
But tomorrow is another day ...
and our circuit takes us to
Classes available every day from Nine AM to Twelve midday.
by the way, about the Botero museum should we read: I did not appreciate his works ... or I could appreciate?
Oops, indeed a single letter too many and the meaning of the sentence is completely opposite! Thank you for the information. I correct immediately.