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Bogota, Colombia

Started by foodie52, Mar 23 2006 11:47 PM

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#1 foodie52

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Posted 23 March 2006 - 11:47 PM

I'm going to be spending a month in Bogota soon. Dining suggestions? Anything?

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#2 ranitidine

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Posted 24 March 2006 - 12:07 AM

Yeah. Don't go out without a bodyguard.

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Posted 24 March 2006 - 12:14 AM

That's no joke. I have a good friend from Bogota, who now lives in Madrid. When she goes to visit her family, she does not take her daughter with her....she is too afraid of kidnapping.

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#4 g.johnson

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Posted 24 March 2006 - 12:16 AM

I recommend the carb-laden stodge.

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#5 Orik

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Posted 24 March 2006 - 12:16 AM

can I ask you to meet my friend? he has a gift that he needs to send me, but he does not know how to use the post office.

I never said that

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#6 omnivorette

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Posted 24 March 2006 - 12:21 AM

Oh my god. Seriously funny.

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#7 ranitidine

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Posted 24 March 2006 - 12:31 AM

That's no joke. I have a good friend from Bogota, who now lives in Madrid. When she goes to visit her family, she does not take her daughter with her....she is too afraid of kidnapping.

I know it's hard to believe, but I wasn't trying to be funny. Extreme caution is required for visiting Bogota. Do not ride buses. And watch out for cabdrivers too.

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#8 porkwah

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Posted 24 March 2006 - 01:00 AM

here are some great pictures of bogota by photographer alec soth: http://www.alecsoth....ages/front.html.

there was also an article about visiting cartagena in the nyt, i think today.

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#9 ranitidine

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Posted 24 March 2006 - 01:46 AM

Good place to get a necktie.

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#10 Rail Paul

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Posted 24 March 2006 - 02:47 AM

Going to Cartagena

Walking the Coffee Trail in Colombia

FWIW, the thrust of these two articles seems to be that violence has dropped in some areas of Colombia in recent years, and that tourism has increased in some areas.

The US Dept of State reports that kidnapping of Americans has dropped substantially, but visitors should exercise caution. The idea that Colombia has about the same violence level as much of the Carribean or a major US city isn't too comforting to me, at least.

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