{"id":939,"date":"2019-01-22T23:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T23:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/?p=939"},"modified":"2019-01-22T23:20:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T23:20:11","slug":"bogota-columbia-jan-17-23-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/22\/bogota-columbia-jan-17-23-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Bogot\u00e1, Columbia, Jan 17-23, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Medell\u00edn it was onto Bogot\u00e1<\/span> to visit my good friend Karen, who is working here as a middle school counselor in a large bilingual\/international school here. Karen lives in a great neighborhood on the north side of town called “Chapinero Alto”, which is near a great restaurant zone called “Zona G” (G for Gourmet). If you visit Bogota I recommend staying in this part of town, which is only a $2 taxi ride to the center of town. Its a very safe part of town, despite (or because of?) the fact that all apartment building have a 24\/7 doorman to let you both in and out of the building.<\/p>\n

Bogot\u00e1<\/span> <\/span>is at an elevation of 8500 ft, which took me about 1 day to adjust to after being in Medell\u00edn, which is at 5000 ft. The climate is basically a high of 65 and a low of 45F year round, so no one has or needs heat or air conditioning. For folks who don’t like the heat, you’d love it here. It was a bit chilly in the morning, but the climate is pretty ideal.<\/p>\n

Bogot\u00e1<\/span> and Medell\u00edn, the 1st and 2nd largest cities in Colombia, are definitely rivals. The best way I can think of to describe the difference between Bogot\u00e1<\/span> and Medell\u00edn, is to think of San Francisco compared to Oakland back in 1990, before Oakland became hipster central and SF became dominated by tech bros<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bogot\u00e1<\/span>\/San Francisco:<\/p>\n