Last Sunday, I went for a drive with Nelson, his parents and a friend. We drove along the mountains the line the east side of the city, and saw some beautiful views along Carrera 1:
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| The west side of the city |
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| Nelson and Esmeralda's parents -too cute |
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A side note about learning how to orient myself in Bogota: All the streets have numbers instead of names and are either called
Calle or
Carreras.
Carreras run north - south, and
Calles run east - west. All Calles (abbreviated Cll.) and Carreras (abbreviated Cra. or K.) are in numerical order, and the mountains line the east side of the city. I've found that as long as I know where the mountains are, I'm able to orient myself pretty well.
The street numbers are posted on the side of buildings, at each intersection, and are kind of hard to read. Some corners, don't even have the signs on them. As a walker, I'm able to watch for them, but I would think that it'd be pretty hard to read.for drivers that are new to Bogota. The signs display the intersection/corner that you're on, so they always have Cra. XX, Cll. XX on the sign.
On this drive we also headed outside of Bogota, into the countryside, which to my absolute surprise looks a lot like a very very green california wine country. We traveled through different little towns, saw the
Alpina factory (dairy products-Aveena is sooooooo delicious, but pretty sweet). We ended up in
Sopo, a really cute, super clean town, and then headed back to Bogota. On the way back, I got to see some of the areas around Bogota affected by floods that have been occurring due to extremely heavy rainfall this winter.
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| Grey-but pretty |
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| Looks kinda like the CA foothills-but greener |
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| Sopo |
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| This is not a lake |
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| More flooding |
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