Monserrate

Dansk: De sidste par dage har været lidt mere rolige. I fredags fik Simon sin tatovering. Det tog omkring 7 timer så det gik det meste af dagen med. Men han er glad og tilfreds med resultater selvom det var en lang og smertefuld dag. I går havde vi bare en afslapningsdag, efter en masse dage fyldt med oplevelser.
Idag var det dog tid til at komme ud og se noget mere. Vi havde bestemt os for at tage op på et bjerg der ligger lige op af Bogota, som hedder Monserrate. Det har en kirke på toppen, som vi har kunne se hele tiden vi har været her, når vi har gået rundt i byen. Så idag måtte vi derop og se ned på byen istedet. Man kan komme derop på tre måder: gå, kabelbane og teleferico (det er en vogn der kører på skinner op af bjerget). Simons ben var ikke helt helet og klar til at gå den lange tur derop og kabelbanen var ikke åbnet endnu, da vi kom derhen, så valget var nemt. Teleferico var den måde vi kom derop. Selve Bogotá ligger i 2600 meters højde og da vi kom op på toppen af Monserrate kom vi op i 3.100 meters højde. Det kunne vi godt mærke. Søndag var den dag alle i Bogotá tog derop, så der var fyldt med mennesker og der var gang i kirken med gudstjeneste. Det var ret hyggeligt at gå rundt deroppe og udsigten over byen var virkelig flot. Vi bestemte os for at spise frokost deroppe og nyde udsigten. Efter frokost tog vi ned igen, og pludselig kunne vi trække vejret noget bedre. Det var en virkelig flot tur, men det var overskyet og jeg tænkte ikke på at tage solcreme på, men solen er alligevel stærk i 3.000 meters højde…Så nu kan jeg nyde en brændt pande de næste par dage…

English: The last couple of days we’ve been taking things a bit more slowly. On Friday Simon got his tattoo done which took about 7 hours, so it took most of the day. But he is happy and satisfied with the result even though it was a long and painful day. Yesterday we just relaxed after a lot of days filled with experiences.
Today it was time to go see something again. We had decided to go visit a mountain called Monserrate which had a church on top we had been seeing everyday we’d been here. So it was finally time to go have a look at it. There are three ways to get up there: walking, cable car or funicular. Simons legs wasn’t feeling up for such a long walk yet, the cable car was closed when we got there, so the choice was easy: funicular it was. Bogotá itself is at 2.600 meters above sea level and once we were at the top of Monserrate we were at 3.100 meters and we could feel it. Breathing had gotten a bit more difficult. Everybody had decided to go to Monserrate on a Sunday so it was full of people and the church was having a service and playing music everywhere. It was really nice walking around up there and the view over the city was beautiful. We decided to also eat lunch there and sit and enjoy the view. After lunch we went back down and all of the sudden we could breath a bit better.
It was a really nice trip but it was quite clouded and I didn’t think about putting on sunscreen, yet the sun is pretty strong still at 3.000 meters… so now I can enjoy a sunburned forehead for the next couple of days…Read more