Saturday, December 13, 2008

Back in Bogota - Dec 11th

Mark and I needed to come back to Bogota to catch the 9:30pm plane to Quito... and from there we´ll need to take a 7:30am flight to the Galapagos.

We had about 4-5 hours to kill in Bogota... so here are the highlights:
- Juan Valdez chain coffee - just likes Starbucks, but not as bitter
- The Gold Museum - as you can suspect, lots of gold (picture of Mark at museum)
- Shopping for sweaters, because it´s COLD... where´s the warm weather? I didn´t sign up for this!
- Big festival in the main Plaza Bolivar with beautiful Christmas decorations

So we decided to get a taxi at 6:15pm for the airport... we should´ve left much earlier. CRAZY traffic! There was some kind of bicycle festival, where they closed down half the lanes for cyclists. It took us 1.5 hours, when it´s supposed to take 20 minutes! Mark was stressed out... I, surprisingly, was pretty calm about it. But in the end, we made it on time. Yay!

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