Botoga

I´m staying in The Cranky Croc Hostel, Botoga and it is such a nice place I would definitely stay here again. On Friday I wandered round the old town, Plaza Boliviar and went to the Police Museum and a Fernando Botero museum. The police museum is apparently the biggest of police museum in the world. It´s free and I had a free guided tour by one of the boys on military service which was great. You get to see mug shots of all the drug lords etc, After that I went to the Botero museum, he´s a famous artist here who painted fat, rich people.

In the evening I cooked with 3 people from the hostel which was hilarious for all the wrong reasons then we drunk beer and sung songs around the fire in the hostel sitting room.

Cathedral in Plaza Boliviar:


Plaza Boliviar:

A typical Botero painting:



On Saturday a group of us hiked up to the top of the Monserrate Hill which overlooks the city and has a big church on top. I went with 2 English guys Tom and Eli, an Aussie girl called Crystal and a Canadian called Gregory.


Me and Eli having just reached the top...yuk!
Bailing out and getting the funnicular down, Eli, Gregory and me:

Afterwards Gregory and I went to the Museo d´oro which is huge and has a pretty amazing collection of gold, like below: We then went wandering round the back streets of Bogota:
And through empty markets:
In the evening Greg, Eli and I went to the circus....It was pretty cool apart from we were late and only actually saw 45mins worth of show! They put four men on moterbikes in a big silver ball and they drove round and round all at the same time which was impressive. Also, as the above photo, men in a pendulum and various other tricks. We out for drinks afterwards and didn´t get to bed until 6am again...!