I visited Bogota many many years ago......... and decided to revisit........
At that time it was essentially a small high altitude colonial city of around 2 million in population with a fabulous Gold Museum. It now has a new museum building and the city is 10 million people, of whom 1 million have recently crossed the border from Venezuela! The old colonial centre is still there, however the suburbs are where all commerce and hotels exist, and getting to the centre takes around 25 minutes. Lots of traffic! The various areas are in themselves very interesting.
The Gold museum is still superb!
And the graffiti art on the surrounding streets is also superb. We took a tour and this was extremely interesting as we learnt the back stories of the political problems being brought to attention. It is no longer illegal for the artists, just a misdemeanour so if caught they can pay a fine!
The Botero museum was huge...... it is in a museum complex in La Candelaria, the old colonial area of Bogota. Great place to spend some time.
Exploring their upmarket local malls was also fun. Interesting local designers.
And a visit to a Tejo court should not be missed!
Restaurants in Bogota offer excellent choices. It has 2 restaurants in the 50 best restaurants of the world and we tried one, Leo. This was a total experience! Included big headed ants!! We needed to be told what we were eating! We had no idea! And lost track of number of courses!
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