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.