[ Dec.2016 ] The streets in central Bogota in Colombia cross each other at right angles. The streets from north to south are called Carrera and from east to west are called Calle and each street…

[ Dec.2016 ] The second day in Bogota in Colombia was a free day and we visited three churches. The first was Iglesia de San Francisco. According to our guide book, this was built between…

Some days before we left for Colombia, I was at an antique complex in London and a vendor told me “This emerald is from Colombia. The emeralds of Colombia is the best in the world“….

[ Dec.2016 ] The last place we went during our first tour in Bogota was an area called La Candelaria where this city was born. There were many 300-year-old restored houses with full of graffiti…

[ Dec.2016 ] The Gold Museum in Bogotà is one of the main things to see in Colombia. Apparently they keep as many as 55,000 historical gold artifacts. They show only a part of them…

We drank Coca tea for the first time in our life on the hill of Monserrate in Bogota. Coca, as you know is the leaf which could be processed to make cocaine. Monserrate is the…