domingo, 4 de mayo de 2008

Sugar cotton




This is a traditional Colombian food product, you can only get it in this little cars, is craft work made, the flavor is sweet and the texture is soft like cotton, i like it very much a recommended it to try it, hope when you visit bogota find this.

This photo was take at bogota downtown next to Colombian central bank

domingo, 20 de mayo de 2007

Bogota Taxis



In Bogota there are tourism, urban public, intermunicipal and interdepartmental taxis. The cost of the cab service within the city is very economic and in a very good quality. The taxi also can be contracted per hours.

It is preferable to take the taxis that serve to the hotels or to ask for the service by telephone. It is recommendable not to take taxis in the street, particularly at night.

Within the taxi, in a visible place for the passenger, it must have an identification of the vehicle, driver name and a list that indicates the tariffs according to the bearing of units of the "Taximetro"(Device used it to control the race price), with his respective equivalence in COP(Colombian currency) ($). The transfers from and towards the airport, served during the night and the holidays and those that are asked for by telephone, have a surcharge. The trips outside the urban perimeter have an authorized surcharge.

Bogota counts on near 47,000 taxis, with card of effective operation, that make 343,000 trips daily. The tariff of the service this determining by units







lunes, 23 de abril de 2007

Maloka

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Maloka is an interactive museum, in addition it´s the greater interactive center of science and technology of South America. Its name derives from maloca, which is a great house that serves as meeting place of many indigenous communities of the Amazon.

According to the natives of Amazon, maloca is not single a house or place of meetings. Maloca is the center of all the universe and life, symbol of the families integration, a place where to chat , watches stars, shares the food. For the natives, maloca is the only place where the knowledge are transmitted, the oral tradition, histories, where the problems are solved.

Today, the Maloka term became the symbol of the world of science and technology, a place where the playful and daily way it is to teach to the children the fascinating world of physics, chemistry, mathematical, Biology, geography, etc.

Between his attractions it has cine-domo in which they appear documentary in giant format of dome (with vision in several directions and perspective).


Prices :

Cinema Maloka Dome (cine-domo): U$ 4.50=

Exhibitions (Rooms): U$ 4=

Maloka plan: U$ 7,50=

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Every day to 06:45 p.m.

Address:Carrera 68D N° 24A - 51

Tel:(57-1) 4272707