Bogotà

I went to see the salt cathedral , which is about two hours by busses from Bogotá, it was quite impressive, but begs the question of why would one go through all this effort to blew up caves in salt mines with dynamite, just to put some crosses inside. I used the Transmelineo transportation system for the first time, it is best described as an surface metro, it uses normal busses, but have exclusive lanes, and like the metro it is a closed system, so you can switch any number of busses to get to your destination with the same ticket. Except for the main avenidas, all the streets in Bogotà have numbers, in one direction they are called "calle #" and in the other direction "carrera #". I went to visit the plaza de Bolivar today, very beautiful, also the other buildings and cathedrals around that area are very nice as well, heavy security everywhere, in the past there were deadly attack by Gurrilas at goverment buildings there, I wanted to visit the Botero museum but it is closed on tuesdays, so I went instead to the military museum, interesting, and it was only a dollar to go in.

I went to the cinima to see a Colombian movie last night, it was called something like ¨My grandfather, my father and me¨, it was a kind of drama/comedy, it was very funny, but still managed to be deep sometimes, I really loved it, and I heard from some poeple living her, that it the characters in the movie, depect really personality types in the Colobian society.

My memory card got screwed up for some reason, it had the pictures from the last three weeks in Bolivia and the first couple of days in Bogotà, this is why there are no pictures in the previous entries. Today I used my second smaller memory card, but it seems that my memory card reader is broken as well, so I can't upload any of those pictures either, I plan to go to a photo shop and just have them put the pictures on a CD, because the cheapest memory card reader I could find here costs 45 US dollars.

I am going to Popayàn and San Agustìn next, I met some travellers that went there, and they strongly recommended it, and it seems that the security situation there has improved lately.