Bogotá

I got my flight very early in the morning with a stop in La Paz and then in Lima and finally arrived in Bogotá in the afternoon.

I got a taxi to my hostel where I was supposed to be meeting Ben but he wasn't there, he was in another part. Finally I decided to go and look for him as the people in the hostel had not come to find me as they had promised and I met Ben walking out of the hostel.

We have spent the last few days enjoying the food and excellent restaurants here and have been up the hill on the teleférico / furnicular, been to some museums, watched a peace march, been to an interactive science centre and visited the botanical gardens where, like every day, it rained. We also went to the Botéro museum (a famous Colombian painter who paints people in a way that makes them look chubby and comical) which I really enjoyed.

Tomorrow we plan to go to the salt cathedral (a cathedral carved out of an old salt mine) which is an hour or so away and then Thursday is going out night. Friday we will take it easy because our flight to Cartagena (hot, hot, hot on the Carribean coast) is on Saturday and we want to be ship shape to travel.