Andres Carne de Res

The most amazing restaurant I have ever been to. The artwork is insanely gorgeous. Check-out the site www.andrecarnederes.com You will have to navigate through the menu, but the photos are worth it. A must go in Bogota. 40 mins out in the town of Chia

10 cents a minute

Instead of payphones in Bogota, there are regular people holding signs renting out their personal cell phones for around 10 cents a minute. Some of them are like Octopuses with 4-5 phones attached by wires to their belts. Coming from the land of the most sophisticated cell phones, this was an interesting sight

Fernando Botero

One of Columbia's most famous artists. Born in 1932 and still active. He is well-known for paintings and sculptures of "large" people with exaggerated proportions. Not to my liking (I love Guayasamin) but certainly distinctive. The sculpture is amazing. Now, I learned that he has recently done some political work depicting the atrocities in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.  

Museo del Oro

I was impressed with the artifacts at the Museum of Gold. This must be one of the worlds finest collections of pre-Colombian gold in the world. The craftsmanship is just amazing! Most of the 50,000 pieces were from produced prior to the 15th century and used by Shamans and the Artistocracy. Of course, the Spanish went nuts over the gold and pilfered most of it, melting a lot of the pieces into ingots.