Bogotá

I was met at the airport by Fernando, my new couch surfing host. We took the bus back to his house, I dumped my stuff, and we went out to a cheap restaurant for lunch. I had a typical plate of rice, beans, fried egg, fried plantain, avocado, crackling and a fried slab of something like yuka. I covered it all in dollops of hot sauce, naturally. 

I stayed two nights in the city and was able to have a good explore. There is an area, beside the cathedral, which is pretty. Colonial buildings line the narrow hilly streets and it's all rather charming. The rest of the city is like any other: tall office buildings, people bustling from here to there and traffic up to your eyeballs.

A highlight was when Fernando took me on the motorbike up to a viewpoint after nightfall. It was beautiful to see an endless sprawl of twinkling lights swimming under Venus and Mars.

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Mirador over Bogotá