Wednesday we did a lot!
Both Marie-Laure and I woke up at about 6 am Colombian time, because it was about 14 o’clock Belgian time. We had a heavenly breakfast! Fruit, joghurt, bread, orange juice, tea and eggs :)
At noon Juliana, another friend of Marie-Laure's, came to pick us up. We went to Ana and from there, we took the taxi to the local university. The traffic is terrifying! Funny signs too; like ‘forbidden to honk’ or ‘watch out crashing cars’. It seems that taxi’s never use their indicators!
Anyway, when we arrived at the university we met up with two other friends of them. They just had their first day of school.
The ‘village’ around the school was called ‘La Candelaria’. It was filled with colonial buildings with a lot of colours.
After a brief walk through El Chorro, a famous little street, we had lunch at a Mexican/Colombian restaurant named ‘Dos Gatos Y Simone’. Very good, but very heavy!
After lunch we went to the ‘museo del Oro’, the goldmuseum. We even learnt something new: Tumbago! Marie-Laure was even baptized ‘Tumbago-Girl’ by our guide (because she was pointing out every tumbago-object). Tumbago was ‘gold’ but it existed of 30 percent gold and 70 percent copper, which gave the pinkish colour.
Apparently El Dorado was in Colombia: the Spanish people thought tumbago was real gold, but actually it wasn’t worth that much. Nevertheless, I thought it was as beautiful as real gold.
While visiting the museum, we met another friend of the girls, so we were with 6 people.
We visited the three churches in front of the museum, but we couldn’t visit the Botero museum because there was a protest. So we strolled along the presidential building and the plaza del Bolivar, where we met a homeless guy who knew everything of every building. After our walk we took the bus, which was an experience itself! These very little busses kept their doors open most of the time and stopped everywhere people held their arms out.
We went to Ana’s house and had a drink and left for dinner. We sat outside while eating but it was surprisingly cold! In Bogota the weather is relatively cold because it's situated in the mountains.
I had a lot of fun, Colombian people are such nice people!
