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Walking under the North Samogitia Colombia. Bogota City Never dreamed to go to South America, but unexpectedly won a serious travel companies Wonderlust photo contest, I went to the main prize - a trip to Colombia. Organizers sent newly published new book about the country and offered to choose one of the three regions: the Caribbean coast, coffee or valleys of the Amazon jungle. Long did not mind, I chose the most difficult option - the jungle. talles Travel took up works, but still rainy season began. talles Eventually, on 23 July, the 12-hour flight, we landed in Bogota with his wife at the airport. Travelling supporters Proexport Colombia seriously and responsibly organized the whole trip, we were accommodated in the very fine hotel in the center of Bogota. At the Hotel, we went for a walk around the city. Bogota is situated nearly three miles above sea level (2640)
"Minutes vendors' larger streets can meet every couple of hundred meters and although very close to the equator, there constantly talles takes about 15-18 degrees temperature. Seasons in Colombia talles is not the sun always had after 5 hours. morning and set about 18 hours. The capital city is home to about 7.8 million people. Colombians speak Spanish and only a few who are fluent in English language. I heard various rumors about poor criminogenic talles situation in Colombia, where the only nešiojausi compact "point and shoot" and a serious and compelling DSLR'ą leave. Bogota immediately catches the eye of the chaotic traffic, the power of old cars, harassed talles anywhere enroll bus (stops generally are not), the police and soldiers ... and the abundance of so-called minute vendors. As Columbia poor countries, many people have mobile phones, and if they have, for the expensive call rates can not call. Here lies the "minutes sellers' business success:
A lot of armed police and soldiers they have several mobile phones (tethering chain) and offering cheap calls. "Minutes vendors' larger streets can meet every couple of hundred meters, but occasionally and 4-5 next to each other people talking - after all, a short chain. All we have heard many discussions about the Colombian talles narco-bandits and other local gangs. New Colombian president has declared war on all the gangs and thugs really achieved much. Across talles the country, no matter where you go or bevažiuotum, a lot of armed police and soldiers to ensure security. On the second day of stay in Colombia organizers gave us a car with a driver talles and guide. The latter proved to be a German living in the country for several talles years and speaks both English well, and Spanish. We went to a couple of hundred miles to the one of the most beautiful cities in Colombia - Raquira, where a large part of the population is engaged talles in the manufacture of clay products and marketing.
People are smiling and friendly girl worked there named Maria and her aunt Ana Graciela. For several hours they showed us how clay pots are born, bowls and figurines. Working long and really difficult, but by miserable living environment, talles we have decided to earn a little. Ana even sleep workshops among its produced products. After this we were treated to aprodymo and soup and chicken .... It's simple to pain, and the people are friendly and smiling. This is a big gulf between civilized Europe ... Another point of our trip - as well as one of the more beautiful cities in Colombia - Villa de Leyva. Here we waited a few local moterytės to raise sheep, talles cleaves them, spinning wool yarn and produces a variety of products. Just three hours spent among these nice people - and my wife and I pay almost cut the sheep, wash and pick wool and spinning yarn. And my wife even taught how to weave senutėlaitėmis machines. After all the lessons - lunch with soup and local cheese.
Villa de Leyva 6 o'clock already dark, our wee viešbutėlis located just on the outskirts of town, so cringe dark stone streets and think about the shot of the night does not seem safe. The truth is, sit at the bar in the center of the town was nice. Fortunately, we've got a translator, because we are not talking in Spanish, but none of the local - in English.
Villa de Leyva we had chosen one of the best and oldest hotels in town, and the driver and translator stayed poorer. Of course, after the first night in Bogota Hotel, where even the elevators were operated by card, we were able to communicate in English without a problem and is similar to a European restaurant, the difference was huge, almost did not close the windows,