Monserrate'

The permanent centinel of bogota, this hill is the principal touristic attraction of the city, 3.512 mt over the sea. Has a Sanctuary dedicated to the Monserrat Lady founded in 1640 by Don Juan de Borja he was the president of the "Nuevo Reino de Granada".
This Hill's enviroment is a natural place who invites to the inner reflexion, also is a massive attractive place for worship, people ascend to monserrate as a penitence to visit the fallen lord's sanctuary a master piece created by Pedro Lugo & Albarracin.



Monserrat is a reference point of the city over the east hills. Since immemorial times is visited by a several ammount of people, tourist and curious ones atracted by the beauty and breathtakiness of the hill.

It can be accessed by foot taking around 30 minutes and 2 hours dependind on the speed and resistance of the visiter. Also there is two magnificent ways to ascend that doesnt take more than 5 minutes to go to the top of the hill: The cable railway founded in 1955, these are cabins who can carry a maximum of 40 passengers each one, with windows on it and the Land Railway a small train with windows on the roof and the sides to appreciate teh natural wonders in the hill like the sabana forest, the panoramical view and the amazing sunset.

casino del rio..,.

i decided to go to tghe casino del rio to see how are the thing there, how the people plays and win money, what are the games that are there, the roulette, poker games, etc, but i thing those types of games are so interesting and i alo deci

La calendaria

Is for excelence the historic center in Bogota, La Candelaria is formed by ancient neighborhoods and monuments like La Catedral de La Concordia y Egypt. La Candelaria has to much stories to tell to their visitants; starting with her foundation in the XVI century by Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada, what today is known as the Bolivar Square Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada bulid 12 little huts, wich were extended into the mountain.

Candelaria is a nice place when you cann see the prehistoric in colombia in a original way, here in this place find really old buildings with Colonial Design, who still preserve their original structure
Here is a video when you can see what i'am talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbESVH1_uDc

festivals in bogota

have you ever go to any fastival here in bogota? there are many different festivals and alll of theme are fantastic, all the festivals here in bogota have a different topic from each other so if you like books you can go to the book fair or if you like some type of music you can go to rock al parque if you like the rock or if you like the hip-hop you can go to hip-hop al parque and thats the onece I have hear but I think there is a festival of music for each genere of music.

the festivals are events maked for a specific topic for the people to go and to be entretain and it is a good opportunity to make publicity or to sell things that are related to the topic of the festivals, because if you go to rock al parque a begin selling pop CD's no body will bought you anything, the festivals also are for the entreteinment or to celebrate something important like the vicentenary and that types of festivals are good to learn more about the cultural things about bogota's history, and even if you are a citicen of bogota you could go to any of this festivals, because when you go to the festival you are going to learn thing about bogota that you don;t know, so you could take advantage of this types of events to learn more about your city.  

imax

have you visit imax in plaza de las americas? do you know that its one of the biggest cinemas in all south america and the one of the best resolution and definition in all the world, I will tell you my personal experience to you to visit this fantastic place.

imax is an interesting plan for a weekend to go with the family, with some friends or to go alone, with the person with you go or if you go alone you are going to enjoy this fantastic experience, I go to this cinema with my family the thing that I don't like is that I live in colina and the cinema is only in plaza de las americas that is so far to go from my home to the mall where there is the imax, when you go there you need to go and find some gigant dinosours, or that was the thing I see the first time I go, there you buy your tiket it's a little bit expensive because is in 3D and the image is so much big, the movie that I watch was oceans that retel like how was the ocean in the period of dinosours and the fantastic animals that live there. 

I want you to know about my personal experience, and I want you to go and visit and if you like it you can go with your family, friends, or you could go and saw the other movie that reetel the story and show you the animal in this movie the ones that lives in the oceans were not mencioned but the ones that habit the earth. 

so if you go I want you to know that I hope to have a fantastic experience and to enjoy this fantastic travel to the past.     

La Castellana Theatre

Do you want to see the best plays and commedy shows in Bogotà? Have you ever heard about the plays "Gorda" or the stand up comedy show of Andres Lopez named "La Pelota de Letras"? In the Castellana theatre, by the 100 street with north highway, there are presented the best shows and plays of all the country. Most of the shows presented in there, are of comedy or drama. The most popular shows are the ones of Andres Lopez. I'm going to tell my experience when I went to that theatre to watch the stand up comedy show of Andres Lopez named "Me pido la Ventana".

That day I arrived to the theatre so excited because finally I was going to see an Andres Lopez's show at the theatre, because when he made "La pelota de letras" I was too little to watch it and the people of the theatre didn't let me enter. I arrived to the theatre with my parents and my aunt, we bought the tickets and entered to the theatre. It is not such as beautiful as the Colon theatre, it is smaller and more modern, but it didn't matter because Andres Lopez's shows are the best. The show started and all the time I was laughing because that man is so funny and knows how to make people laugh a lot with his jokes and imitations. He always talk about the traditional manners that colombian's have, and how is the daily life in the colombian families, parties, trips and others. When the show was over, we were too happy because we enjoyed it a lot, and we asked when it was the next function for inviting people, and we discovered that during a short period of time, there are a lot of shows daily. Then we went to look for the car, at the parking lot that belongs to the theatre, and went home.

You should visit La Castellana theatre, it is a very nice modern theatre in wich you can have a lot of fun watching the stand up commedy shows or drama and funny plays. I recommend you to go during the Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro, during that period of time there are a lot of excellent plays and shows in the theatre and you can pass a great time with your friends and familly.

The Colon Theatre

Have you ever gone to the best theatre of the Candelaria? Do you know about all the history that the Colon theatre has? One weekend I went to the Colon theatre in order to take pictures, but it was closed because it is so ancient so the goverment is remodelating it. In order to tell a great experience that I had in the Colon theatre, I will talk about my experience of the Show in wich I participated. It was the celebration of the 50 years of the Abraham Lincoln School, so they made an special show in wich some students made a presentation at the Colon theatre.

I was in primary, and I was part of the group of dancing of the teacher Julian. We started to make the rehearsals at school. I was going to dance rock 'n' roll, tango, and pom pom shoes. We were not to excited because we had already participated in many shows and won a lot of prices because we were so good dancing tango and Elvis' rock 'n' roll. We continue making the rehearsals and one day teachers took us to make a general rehearsal at the Colon theatre. When we arrived in there we were shocked. It was the most beautiful thatre in wich we had danced ever. One person in charge of showing us the theatre gave us a tour, showing us all the theatre, the stage, the special boxes for rich people to see the shows, and finally our locker room. We were fascinated with it. We were seven men in a huge locker room with lots of showers and beds. Now, we were so excited because we felt like professional actors. The day of the presentation we were so nervous, we pass all the day making rehearsals at the theatre till the night, when the presentation began. It was a very nice experience, all the people was proud of us, and we did a great job showing all our dancing skills at that beautiful and historic theatre.

As a conclusion, I recommend you to visit that theatre, you will learn a lot about Colombia's history and you will feel proud of your country, for having such a beautiful cultural place. For me, it is the most beautiful theatre of Bogotà, it is full of frescoes and paintings, a beautiful architecture and great plays presented in there when it is available.

Here is a video of the Colon theatre: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-GLCWwHXYs