HELLO BOGOTA! FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF COLOMBIA
hello everyone here from the capital of colombia bogota so some of you guys that follow this channel will be thinking what the hell are you doing in colombia since in the last video we said we were going to brazil and that hasn't changed we are still going to brazil it just turns out that we have quite a big layover here in bogota in colombia country that we've never been to before so we thought we might as well make the most of it and explore a little bit we arrived here late last night and our flight to brazil today is at 3 p.m so we've woken up really early at like 6 30 in the morning and that'll give us like six or seven hours to be able to walk around here and check the place out so the hotel we're staying at is called hotel regina and this was 22 a day pretty good price there isn't really that much to show you just the little sink area okay i was getting ready and this is the bathroom all pretty modern looking though and then dry some clothes breakfast yeah includes breakfast which is what we're gonna do right now also a good price because we're in a really popular neighborhood called la candelaria i think it's like the most touristy neighborhood it's the historic neighborhood so it's where you get all the museums and nice buildings and stuff so yeah looking forward to seeing a bit of colombia interested in wallpaper yeah i like it the animals the interesting elevator as well it's the same thing it's very small yeah this is old school check it out you can see like the the walls passing by it's not even close properly so the hotel has this really nice cafe on the bottom floor so this is where we're having our breakfast they really do love these birds this wallpaper is all over the place and they had a few selections for breakfast i just got this one that's called fitness so we've got like the granola the bread i think this is yogurt got some fruit and some herbal tea peppermint tea and carol got one called the classic which is just eggs bread fruit and the coffee i think you also have a juice coming right mango all right nice so we're gonna head out and explore la candelaria now so i think we're right on the outskirts because all these are modern buildings this one looks like a historic one here but yeah the other ones look modern it looks a bit like uh rio yeah yeah it's very similar yesterday when we were arriving like yeah this reminds the real like the historical center yeah it's kind of got a bit of like a gritty feel to it it's got the graffiti everywhere things like that enjoying the cold yeah it's nice to be in a cold after so long in hot places we were like i don't know five months always going to places that were a lot hot very hot always over 30 degrees celsius 30 degrees so it's nice to have a bit of change yeah yeah so it's this cold because we're 2 600 meters above sea level so i think bogota is always cold right now it's like 11 12 degrees celsius so a big shot for us so our first stop is gonna be the main famous square here which is called plaza bolivar huge square similar to like the zokolo in mexico city that we've been to so you're surrounded by historic buildings in every direction but unfortunately they seem to be restoring it so yeah there's this big black sheep and even the church so that's the primary cathedral yeah also doing restoration so won't be able to go in there either and even around they're like cleaning graffiti here so they seem to be working on yeah the appearance of everything so this is a statue of simon bolivar which the square is named after so simone bolivar was a venezuelan military leader and he was responsible for the independence of this country from spain not only this country also venezuela peru ecuador panama bolivia maybe some others as well so yeah he's super famous in all these countries man it's raining like crazy now yeah so we did read that here in bogota people walk with umbrellas all the time because it can just randomly rain whenever like the forecast never showed rain at all but it's raining pretty hard now nice spot to stop in the rain though so we've got this cool looking building here i think we're entering more the colonial section now so yeah even this is a nice little square nice building too look at this balcony here so so it's kind of noisy here but check this out for an amazing building so this is from the 20th century and it's a gothic style as you can see nice and colorful kind of different the stripes it's huge some amazing architecture though also doesn't seem to be open though so yeah we can't go in another awesome thing about bogota is that you're surrounded by these huge mountains right now you can't really see the peaks because of all the clouds but yeah i think all the way around you have these gigantic mountains everywhere and there is one i think it's called monserrat that you can visit but just on tuesdays it's closed and that just happens to be the the day that we're here so we can't go you can get like a cable car up to the top so yeah that would have been awesome but unfortunately we're here on the wrong day it's kind of weird how empty it is though we thought it'd be really busy here i mean like these streets here no nobody here at all majority of the streets and the historic part are like this look at these cool buildings so all the different colors yeah we're definitely feeling uh altitude probably because we're a bit tired as well from the traveling yesterday and we're walking uphill now so yeah even more tiring supposed to be a really awesome street here like a famous walking street so it's really colorful so yeah we're trying to get there now i think we're pretty close hey carol so it reminds me of san cristobal de las casas similar because there you also have this called colorful buildings that's similar and also the some mountains yeah and there you have the tiled roof like this so yeah it's like identical architecture to san cristobal de las casas in mexico so check out these cool buildings this is a hostel here a cool colonial looking hostel this is a restaurant not diva i guess that means native yeah yeah just like in mexico as well you just get loads of different kinds of buildings they're never really the same so it's always different patterns different designs different combination of colors so this is the street that we want to go down it's called got this cool little square around here a nice little old fountain here some more restaurants this is the name of this square plaza showroom so they have these signs everywhere around bogota so yeah it's pretty cool you can read up on the history of every spot that you go to so it says this square is where bogota was actually founded so there you go just found it right here check out this street art that looks awesome yeah yeah that's why we came to the street because apparently it's like this narrow pathway as you can see and there's just like street art all around super colorful got these cobbled stones as well so so yeah this is our favorite part so far so that was the kae we just walked down there's even graffiti out on this side but then we're even closer to the mountains now so looks really cool with the clouds can even see in the distance back there as well this part seems to be more the modern area now even the modern area is quite colorful though look at these buildings people selling fruit and vegetables here yeah it seems like a really cool place doesn't it yeah i'm glad we decided to come out yeah it's a beautiful city and colorful just like we always enjoy to see places colorful places are always our favorites yeah the colonial spanish ones so back there is the mountain i was talking about before that you can go up by a cable car we actually can see some cable cars going up and down so yeah i'm not sure maybe it is actually open but either way i think it would have took a while and we wouldn't have had much time to walk around the streets so because of our time limit i don't think we could really go anyway yeah these streets here are definitely the the oldest original ones it's hard to even work hello moving up yeah you got to watch where you're walking here twist your your ankle check that out la cazana 1840 another hostel all these places though the museums the hostels the restaurants around here they all look close so i'm guessing it is because of covid we haven't seen any tourists around here at all we're like the only foreigners walking around man the street art never ends it might be the most street art we've ever seen anyway so so so the main modern part is busy so it's not like the historic part here there's loads of people walking around it's where all the people work so yeah this is where you see everyone and here everything's open so those are places to eat nothing's closed around this area loads of police around here we've noticed so our next stop is this place the gold museum moseo del oro and this place is free to visit but we had to like book online in advance yeah we booked yesterday so i guess not it's not busy but you need to do the reservation beforehand i think that's because of kovid maybe yeah to restrict the amount of people yeah anyway it is for free so let's head inside so the cool thing about this museum is that everything here is from the pre-columbian times so it's all indigenous nothing european and the part we're in now is mainly the metals so you have like the gold stuff like jewelry instruments and stuff so it's all cool to see if it's been made so long ago so check this out this is from around 200 bc and it says that a goldsmith in that time pressed seven thin sheets of gold onto a sea snail so from the same time period you have this crown here check that out is that a crown too no it's a helmet oh a helmet oh golden golden helmet so so so here you can see the outline of a person so this is kind of how it would have looked on their body i guess that would have been on the head got the earrings here no idea what this is like a huge necklace breastplate yeah they like their jewelry so carol prefers the golden things but i like the ceramic pasta i think it looks cool look at that awesome designs so here we have a mummy pretty creepy so to say that it was important people that we usually preserve to maintain their presence within the community so this is interesting it says that colombia has a history which goes back 15 000 years there are currently 84 indigenous groups in the country who speak 65 native languages so here's just an image showing some different tribes that they have around colombia right here this time so we come to this really local restaurant here called kaeluna which carol found and we're getting a plate called plate of the day and it's only 15 000 of their currency which is less than four dollars per person so first it comes with this little fruit issue what's in the what's with the banana it's like uh i don't know like a cream cream or milk i don't know it's something like that yeah so we got that and then we're gonna get a main fish dish yeah food and also dessert and also a drink wow for less than four dollars i like it when i saw online i was like wow that's a good price and all the reviews were good so that's why we came here yeah and it's like a one minute walk from where we stain so we got the veggie soup violin hot exactly what we needed to warm up yeah delicious yeah i love it can someone tell me what this is here it's like the biggest bean bean looking thing ever i'm not even sure what it is we thought it was meat at first it's so big but no it's not it's definitely a vegetable is that it that's something else that's another kind of bean but yeah look at this it's very big i thought it was like a mushroom on meat yeah it's not no it could be so this is interesting the juice this is pear juice by the way they bring it with this yeah a little cup here or something and some sort of dessert i guess on top just funny to combine it with the drink what is it it's like there's like a coffee taste coffee it's good though yeah i'm not a fan of coffee but it is good so it's official carol found the best restaurant in bogota look at the size of this yeah the size of that so carol got the fried one and mine's uh steamed that's crazy how we're gonna eat all this and he even has our favorite here a huge plantain and that's guacamole on top rice yeah what a fine girl so this is dessert you just confirmed it's like some coffee caramel mix i don't know why they put it on the juice but who cares so we're back at our hotel now and it turns out they have a really awesome rooftop floor so they have all these cool seating areas here this artificial grass that looks good you can sit in here as well so you don't get the rain and even on this side they have more couches and stuff so yeah really cool area and the best part is this look at the views that you get right we're on one of the tallest buildings so yeah we just walked over there today in the old town but some amazing views from up here and then you can see the giant modern buildings absolutely massive there's one back there look at that that's bizarre it's like stairs or something definitely a good place to stay then for 22. with breakfast and this nice view and the hotel is small but it's it's good everything was clean and yeah we enjoyed it and of course it's also in the historical center you can walk everywhere here yeah and when we approached we saw that it had the day on the building i think like 1921. yeah yeah it's an old building yeah so it's pretty cool you got to stay in a cool start building as well so we're just getting uh uber for the airport shows it's gonna cost 26 000 columbian pesos all right four minutes away nice and quick carol it feels weird making a video in a place that we're just leaving straight away we'll be back though so we've arrived at the airport it's called el dorado that's the main airport here we arrived a bit later than expected because the the traffic was really bad and here's a huge airport by the way since bogota is the capital but luckily we don't have much of a queue so we should get through pretty quickly and when we got here yesterday it took like over an hour to get through immigration took forever didn't it yeah it was a big big line yeah and we got here at night so we were just like tired i don't want to sleep so we're just waiting for our flight now didn't take too long to get through not that many people here today not not the same as as last night and uh yeah we enjoyed what we saw of bogota it was only like half a day right well it was like six to seven hours and even in a full day usually we only walk around for like six or seven hours anyway so it was still kind of like a full day really really like what we saw and colombia has always been on our list but we wanted like two full months here because it's a big country a lot of stuff to do so yeah i think within the next two years we'll probably do that two-month trip here since we enjoyed it this time it's just made us want to explore colombia even more and the next videos are all going to be from brazil so our flight now is to sao paulo and we're actually going to stay there two days so we do plan on making one video from there and then we'll go to rio where mine and carol's family is and yeah all the other videos will be from there so if you like this video just drop a like as usual to support us subscribe if you'd like to see more videos like this follow us on instagram and we'll see you in the next one you
2021-09-16 05:12
