To catch our 2 hour flight from Bogota we arose at 4 am.  Arriving at 9:30 am you could already feel the heat and humidity. After checking in we walked over to the river…..the Amazon River! 

Immediately I knew that we were  somewhere special. Sure it was dirty and filled with workers but still it was the legendary Amazon. 

But then we had to get down to business and book our Amazon adventure. 3 nights and 4 days in the jungle. We had to meet a guy in the park. Many pecos later we had our reservation. 

It is kind of an adventure doing anything in a south of the border country. Today was no exception.  Since this was to be out last day in Bogota, we thought that we might do something touristy and interesting. We settled on The Catedral de Sal (Cathedral of Salt) which was voted by Colombians as one of the “Wonders of Columbia.”  You guessed it, it is an underground church complete with 12 stations of the cross made completely of salt!

No it was not as easy to get to as our guide book said. It never is. Walking-taxi-walking-bus-walking-getting lost many times, and we were there by noon. Boy was it worth it as you might be able to see from the photos?

The size of this structure is amazing.

Here you can see one of the angels guarding the church

They hold services here on Sunday. 

One of the many many chambers of this church.

Here is Kim photographing one of the many salt sculptures. 

Getting home was much easier as we were now experts. 

Last night we arrived in Bogota Colombia after 10 pm.  Our hotel was further from the airport than we realized so it was late before we actually got to sleep. 

This morning after a nice buffet breakfast on the rooftop restaurant we walked over to the Bank to change dollars to pesos. I had to fill out 4 pages of forms, but 2,000,000 pesos later we were felling very flush so we got in a cab and went to the old part of Bogota called La Candelaria, and just walked around taking pictures.  

The taxi ride home was long but filed with lots of unique sites. I especially enjoyed seeing all of the grafitii with seemed to decorate almost every open space. 

I can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings. 

By this time tomorrow we should be on our way to Colombia.  We are really excited to get this journey going. 

As you can see we packed really light. Packs are just over 10 lbs each. We will be gone for a full month. First stop is Bogota!