Colombia - 2007
Bogata
In July-August 2007, a fortnight after Drew was born (and after we visited him in Perth), we visited South America for our third time.
(59-days - Melbourne - Auckland - Santiago - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Iguassu Falls (Argentina and Brazil) - Buenos Aires - Salta -
Atacama Desert (Argentina and Chile) - Santiago - Quito (Ecuador) - Galapagos Islands - Quito - Bogata (Colombia) - Cartagena (Colombia)
- Bogata - Caracas (Venezuela) - Angel Falls (Venezuela) - Caracas - Santiago - Auckland - Melbourne)
We flew from Quito in Ecuador to Bogata.
Bogotá was founded as the capital of the New Kingdom of Granadaon in1538, by Spanish by Spanish conquistador
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada after a harsh expedition into the Andes conquering the Muisca.
The Muisca were the indigenous inhabitants of the region.
The name of Bogotá corresponds to the Spanish pronunciation of the Muisca Bacatá (or Mueketá)
which was the name of a neighboring settlement.
Museo del Oro
(Gold Museum)
They had an excellent display - the best that we have seen.
The museum displays a selection of pre-Columbian gold and other metal alloys,
and contains the one of the largest collection of gold artifacts in the world.
Botero Museum
Born in 1932, Fernando Botero is a Colombian artist and sculptor, whose works are on display around the world.
His paintings and sculptures are, on first examination, noted for their exaggerated proportions
and the corpulence of the human and animal figures.
The "fat people" are often thought by critics to satirize the subjects and situations that Botero chooses to paint.
Botero explains his use of obese figures and forms thus:
"An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why.
You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it."
He is an abstract artist in the most fundamental sense of the word.
Cerro de Monserrato
We caught the cable car to the top of this mountain and the funicular railway back down.
You get a great view of Bogata.
Bogata
In July-August 2007, a fortnight after Drew was born (and after we visited him in Perth), we visited South America for our third time.
(59-days - Melbourne - Auckland - Santiago - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Iguassu Falls (Argentina and Brazil) - Buenos Aires - Salta -
Atacama Desert (Argentina and Chile) - Santiago - Quito (Ecuador) - Galapagos Islands - Quito - Bogata (Colombia) - Cartagena (Colombia)
- Bogata - Caracas (Venezuela) - Angel Falls (Venezuela) - Caracas - Santiago - Auckland - Melbourne)
We flew from Quito in Ecuador to Bogata.
Bogotá was founded as the capital of the New Kingdom of Granadaon in1538, by Spanish by Spanish conquistador
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada after a harsh expedition into the Andes conquering the Muisca.
The Muisca were the indigenous inhabitants of the region.
The name of Bogotá corresponds to the Spanish pronunciation of the Muisca Bacatá (or Mueketá)
which was the name of a neighboring settlement.
Museo del Oro
(Gold Museum)
They had an excellent display - the best that we have seen.
The museum displays a selection of pre-Columbian gold and other metal alloys,
and contains the one of the largest collection of gold artifacts in the world.
Botero Museum
Born in 1932, Fernando Botero is a Colombian artist and sculptor, whose works are on display around the world.
His paintings and sculptures are, on first examination, noted for their exaggerated proportions
and the corpulence of the human and animal figures.
The "fat people" are often thought by critics to satirize the subjects and situations that Botero chooses to paint.
Botero explains his use of obese figures and forms thus:
"An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why.
You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it."
He is an abstract artist in the most fundamental sense of the word.
Cerro de Monserrato
We caught the cable car to the top of this mountain and the funicular railway back down.
You get a great view of Bogata.
