![]() You can actually enjoy local colombian food in Bogota but you have to know where to look for it. Hungry For Real Colombia Adventure?įor all the ingredients you need to put together a magnificent Medellin trip- where to stay, what to do, what to eat, where else to visit in Colombia-see our Medellin Travel Manual. ![]() Hopefully the above helped you get closer to answering the question of, “Is Bogota worth visiting?” for yourself.īogota won’t appeal to everybody, but the chances you’ll like it as much as I did are higher than you might expect. If you’re looking to gorge on traditional and cheap Colombian food, Bogota is not worth visiting. They were all tasty, but not at all Colombian. We ended up eating French pastries at Les Amis Bizcocheria, deep dish pizza from Stomboli, and Asian food from Wok instead. And glorious, gluttonous, gastronomic orgies like that of La Gloria de Gloria in Medellin are nowhere to be found.Īside from a few touristy spots like La Puerta Falsa and Pasteleria Florida, Kim and I had a near impossible time finding appealing comida tipica. If your primary source of happiness from traveling is devouring copious amounts of cheap local delicacies, Bogota is not worth visiting.īogota is DEFINITELY nothing like Mexico City, Tokyo, or Bangkok. Are you only interested in cheap, local Colombian food? If so, don’t visit. The French treats at Les Amis Bizcocheria were better than any Colombian food anyways. Instead of planning to not leave the airport, add a day or two in the city to your itinerary. The same goes if the cheapest flights you can find into or out of Colombia are through Bogota. It is cheap (about $10 USD taxi) and close (25 minutes) enough from the airport to the city that you have no excuse not to go. If you have a long layover at Bogota’s airport, the choice has been made for you already. Do you have a long layover in Bogota? If so, do visit. That said, if you’re a big scaredy cat you might be better off skipping Colombia altogether and going somewhere like Asia instead. If they feel safe enough to do so, you can too. we even saw a trio of 80+ year old ladies-one with a walker-making their way, very slowly, back home on a dark, quiet street. ![]() Whether or not my theory is valid, the truth is my spidey-senses never tingled anywhere north of Calle 69 and east of Carrera 15. Those people are easy prey, so high concentrations of them create a perfect ecosystem for predators to thrive on. My theory is that it’s partly because Bogota has way less naive, often drunk or high, non-Spanish-speaking, and obnoxiously-loud-foreign-language-blabbing tourists than Medellin. Pardon the double negative, but if you’re worried about safety don’t not go to Bogota.įrankly, both Kim and I felt safer roaming Bogota than we do in Medellin. Are you worried about safety? If so, don’t let that stop you. While Kim and I felt safer wandering Bogota than in Medellin, there were obviously neighborhoods like this one, well west of Carrera 15, that we wouldn’t risk wandering at night.
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