On to Bogotá

Hola todos! This will be the first blog installment for my visit to Bogotá, Colombia’s capital city. Before we talk about Bogotá itself we must first briefly discuss the journey as it was one of the more tedious ones we’ve done on this trip. Probably the most since San Jose.

It wasn’t the earliest of starts out of Manizales. About half 9, I was out and on the cable car over to the bus station. After a short ride and a quick bit of breakfast we were on way by 11. This bus however was a full bus and unfortunately I got the worst seat being sat right behind the dark metal pane behind the drivers seat so could barely see much outside and there were a lot of twisty roads again much like the ride to Manizales. I don’t get car sick much but this was making me feel queezy. From what we could see weather was quite bad all the way up so naturally this slowed things down.

This journey whiled on until we hit the outskirts of Bogotá. It took another hour and a half to get into the station and then another half hour to get to my hostal in an Uber. In total I think I arrived about 3.5 hours late. 7 hour journey took 10 more or less. Arriving in Candelaria, the historic centre it didn’t look the nicest place to be at night but I was starving and headed out anyway to find somewhere to get some grub and a beer. The only place that was open was an Irish bar, so it was a burger and 2 pretty expensive pints but hey, beggars can’t be choosers!

I eaten up, went back to our hostal and had a little drink on the terrace and chatted a bit to some of the hostel mates and turned in about half 11. Slow going day but worked out alright. Tomorrow I will visit Monserrate.