Our Life in Medellin Colombia: Bogota Colombia

Andres DC

This is the place to go for most younger people in Bogota. Andres DC is a themed pub with four floors. Each floor has its own theme based on Earth, Wind, Water and Fire. Well worth a visit, but it is a little pricey.

The Irish Pub

The Irish pub is a great little bar, that makes you feel like you are back in Ireland. It has one strange area where the bar stools and tables are upside down fixed to the ceiling, or had I had one too many?

Museo del Oro

The Museum of Gold (Museo del Oro) is a museum located in downtown Bogotá, Colombia. It is one of the most visited touristic highlights in the country, with around 500,000 tourists per year.

The museum displays a selection of pre-Columbian gold and other metal alloys, such as Tumbaga, and contains the largest collection of gold artefacts in the world in its exhibition rooms on the second and third floors. Together with pottery, stone, shell, wood and textile objects, these items, made from a sacred metal (Sacred to the indigenous cultures), testify to the life and thoughts of the different societies which lived in present-day Colombia before the Spanish conquest.

Catedral del Sal

The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá (Catedral de Sal de Zipaquirá) is an underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 metres (220 yd) underground in a halite mountain near the town of Zipaquirá, in Cundinamarca, Colombia. It is a tourist destination and place of pilgrimage in the country. The temple at the bottom has three sections, representing the birth, life, and death of Jesus. The icons, ornaments and architectural details are hand carved in the halite rock.

The Salt Cathedral is considered one of the most notable achievements of Colombian architecture. The cathedral represents a valuable cultural, environmental and religious patrimony for the Colombian people.

The cathedral is a functioning church that receives as many as 3,000 visitors on Sundays, but it has no bishop and therefore no official status as a cathedral in Catholicism.