The first thing we did on arriving in Bogota was to visit the Museo del Oro - the world's largest gold museum and one of the highlights of Colombia with over half a million people visiting yearly.Interestingly only about 15% of its collection containing roughly 50,000 pieces is on display. And what a display it is. Even if you're not normally a museum person this one is worth visiting. It's likely to be one of…
You would think I'd know better by now. But apparently I'm a slow learner. It's not as though I haven't already done three long bus rides in South America - including one that was 16 hours long. But those bus rides were in Chile and Argentina - where the buses have leather seats like a business class seat on an airplane. They recline. They're roomy. And they allow you to see outside. Not so -…
A Bogota bike tour is the best way to discover the capital of Colombia. Join a bilingual guide for a bike tour that shows off the real Bogotá that most tourists never see. John and I did a five hour Bogota bike tour a few days into our Colombia visit. I had heard that Bogota was particularly well set up for bikes - with literally hundreds of kilometres of mixed use bike paths. I'd also…