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Bogota

La Candelaria and the lively restaurant in Bogotà

[ 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…

Bogota

The Gold Museum in Bogota

[ 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…

Bogota

Coca tea for the first time in my life

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…

Bogota

Situation in Bogota

We started our sightseeing in Bogota, Colombia at 9:30 am on the day we arrived. First, we headed for Monserrate. Before arriving there, the information we got from our guide was interesting. Bogota is divided…

Bogota

Arriving in Bogota

We spent our Christmas-New Year holiday in Colombia. Because our travel in the three countries in South America the year before was wonderful, we wanted to know this continent more. We used the same travel agency…

Gibraltar

Seafood and shopping

[ Nov.2016 ] After the very long walk from the Rock in Gibraltar down to the town, we got really tired and really hungry. Because we were at the seaside, we wanted to eat seafood…

Gibraltar

The monkeys on the Rock

After watching dolphins in the sea off Gibraltar, we went up the mountain by the cable car. This is a rocky mountain called The Rock and is famous for the monkeys that live there. First…