Destination Guide – Bogotá For Every Budget

Check out my guest post about traveling in Bogotá, Colombia from budget to splurge on Backpack South America a new travel blog that is: Dedicated to providing detailed, up-to-date and accurate information about travelling South America on a backpacker’s budget. All advice comes from real travel bloggers who have actually travelled in South America. Backpack […]

Bogotá Street Art

Bogotá Eats – Ceviche, Chocolate Santafereño, Andrés D.C. & Más

Bogotá knows how to eat. From empanadas, ceviche and chocolate with cheese to every type of world cuisine can be found in this city. Our last day in Bogotá we went on an eating spree. Before touring around the colonial barrio of La Candelaria again we headed to famous La Puerta Falsa, Bogotá’s oldest running […]

Christmas Eve in Bogotá

Christmas is usually celebrated on Christmas Eve in Colombia. It is recognized by many that Jesus was born at midnight so families go out to dinner or gather with family in the evening and start toasting (Christmas, birth of Jesus) around 11pm. We started our Christmas celebration in the afternoon at my birth family’s house. […]

Beautiful Chaos in Bogotá Day 2

Bogotá has its own set of rules. Figuring out these rules is part of the adventure when traveling. Bogotá can make you feel like you have to earn your place but there is a sense of mutual respect once you prove you can mange it. It is then you can concentrate on the magic that […]

My Journey Back to Bogotá

¿De dónde eres? This has always been an interesting question for me, where am I from? I suppose the answer depends on who is asking the question and where it is being asked. Located at almost 9,000 feet in the Andes Mountains Bogotá is the beautiful, thriving, immense, pulsating city of my birth. The temperate […]