got to Bogota by air for about 200 PLN from Santa Marta. From the airport taxi to the old quarter of La Candelaria (28 PLN). We went to a random hostel, La Casa del Sol, which I will not elaborate because I do not recommend it strongly. After one night walked the entire district in search of a new hostel, in general, rather poor standard. Finally, on consecutive nights we stayed in a hostel Fatima, this is much better (30 PLN).
the guide, we learned that in Bogota, there are three districts that are worth seeing:
- La Candelaria, or old city, and its cathedral, narrow streets, old buildings, the world's first monument to Simon Bolivar - the liberator of South America, the old market and headquarters Government
- Downtown - lying just off the La Candelaria, the shopping centers, office buildings and the Museum of Gold (about this later)
- North Bogota - with embassies and expensive hotels
addition to the above we also see the Monastery, a chair lying on top of the projecting correctly from the center of Bogota. Bogota is also near the Colombian Mine - that the cathedral was built in a salt mine. In the pictures, however, looks far less impressive than ours, so I myself odpuściliśmy.
Every day of our stay in Bogotá was raining, it was also quite chilly. Again went in motion, and fleece jackets. Bogota, as is often the case in South American capitals, lies in the mountains, at 2,600 meters above sea level, around there are other, even higher mountains. Because of weather we have not decided on any of trekking around the area, our entire stay gone for a walk to La Candelaria and Downtown. We visited a monastery (20 PLN) and the Museum of Gold (5 PLN). Overall, the city is not enthusiastic about me, nothing special. Great (8 million inhabitants), a concrete behemoth. And the old city - exactly what could be expected. Some nice buildings, lots of ugly. Asolutnie nothing interesting. In conclusion - I do not recommend stayed longer than 1 day, which must be paid to visit the Gold Museum, a short walk through the old town and possibly visit the Monastery. At this stage of the journey, in this city, after the last Lariamie - eagerly waiting to return home ...
LA CANDELARIA
- views over breakfast in a cafe
- streets
- in Poland we have about 110 mobile phones per 100 inhabitants (or something like this), in Colombia there are far fewer. Thus, in the streets there are mobile phone booths (no booths) with several mobile phones on chains. And chips.
- the old city market. Ugliest in South America, although the cathedral was not bad.
Strolling through the streets of Bogota, when he first saw the monastery, I saw the sight of this.
(the following pictures and descriptions are not blasphemous, and it is not absolutely my intention, representation is what I've seen)
On top goes the cable type Gubalowka.
at the top of featured flowers grow ...
... hummingbirds fly ...
(Shutter 1 / 125 second at this speed, the normal bird's wings are pretty clear, not exactly here. I tried it at 1 / 500 second, a similar effect!)
... from the queue to the monastery leads Way of the Cross. Sculpture representing more stations are very well made, especially on top of a mountain and the clouds are building a very special atmosphere ...
... except the last one.
(which looks rather like a character from a comic book superhero)
altar is also original.
Panorama Bogota.
GOLD MUSEUM The museum is modern and very well organized, highly recommend. The museum is an exhibition of metallurgy, gold processing techniques, the history of plunder of gold by the English conquistadors. All this is told through multimedia presentations and using tens of thousands (!) Of gold artifacts. There are special exhibitions on Native American shamanic ceremonies and traditions and the role of gold in their conduct.
- some places were beautiful
- This artifact shows the legendary El Dorado ceremony, in which Indians sacrificed to their gods the most beautiful objects of gold dropping them from the rafts into the lake Guatavita. This golden statue is about 20 inches long, its replicas are the most common pattern of souvenirs from Colombia, appear on each stall as a souvenir plastic figures, t-shirts, etc.
- other places are strange
Based on "The Simpsons"? ;)
- yet other mysterious or scary. Among others, these masks seen during the ayahuasca ceremony in Iquitos, then they showed me a shaman ... and here they were finding in the Hall of Ceremonies, with descriptions of such ceremonies was! I started looking for a mask, which in my visions appeared most frequently, but unfortunately I did not find it in the whole museum, but others that I saw there were there ... To understand the significance of this, at least a strange phenomenon, I began to delve into more than before in most of the museum texts around me. Some of the descriptions rewritten. Tłumaczenia ani interpretacji się nie podejmuję.
"...natural and supernatural principles are balanced, in indigenous thought. There are men and there are also women, light follows darkness, rain comes after drought, wild has its opposite in domesticated, and the world above is matched by the one below. When the balance is broken, chaos ensues; uncontrollable forces take over the universe and threaten disorder and terror. Wise men then intervene to bring order back into the world. Through sacred offerings they restore the balance and ensure that life will follow its course once more..."
"...shamans used sacred plants to immerse themselves in the spiritual dimension in reality and visit other levels of the cosmos. Consuming these plants, coupled to fasting, sound and light effects, and repeated body movements, induced a state of trance that taught the secrets and powers of the universe and in which the invisible was made visible..."
"...when the shaman is in trance, he feels that he is transformed into a bird and makes long journeys. Some believe that they get transfigured into a condor, others into a humming bird or heron... priests who identified themselves with bats evoked these animals habits in their own; they lived in dark temples, worked at nights, and flew when they were in trances..."
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