Bogota

A short bus ride took us back to Bogota, which is a massive city of ~8 million people. The city is surrounded by scenic, green mountains and is very hilly in some neighborhoods (our Uber driver said some apartments were as pricey as NYC), though the bulk of it is built in the flat valley.
Our time here was short, but we managed to get to two excellent museums: The Gold Museum - highlighting an incredible array of pre-Columbian gold not melted down by the Spanish, and The Botero Museum – Columbia’s most famous artist known for his rotund statues and paintings of people and animals.Read more