OUR LAST DAY IN BOGOTA

We started our day with a delightful breakfast at Myria’s sister Esperanzaand her husband Enriquo’s (I think that is how you spell his name ) beautiful apartment. We had a traditional breakfast with Tamal, which is corn meal cooked with other things like garlic, a small amount of meat and other things I cannot remember, all wrapped in banana leaves and cooked for some time, the whole dish takes around 5 hours to make, but the resultant taste is delightful. We also had little flat discs which were eggs coated in batter and about the size of a 50 cent piece. Homemade muffins and fruit juice and chocolate (hot) not cocoa but real drinking chocolate which comes in bars which are then heated and melted( beautiful), they usually melt special cheese in it as well. The fruit in Colombia is delightful and there is a wide variety all exotic fruit that we do not get, and when they are served as juice, they are beautiful. Myriam’s sister is just as hospitable as her sister, it was very nice to have another meal in the home of a local, it was very special for us to be invited to eat with them.

We then went to a fruit market., I have never seen so many different types and varieties of fruit in one place at once, we tasted some of them and one of the sellers gave us a fruit tea drink. Our hosts did some shopping which we dropped home to their place and then we hit the shops. Bought a couple of things, then back to Myriam & Hernandos for lunch. This was a special soup with corn, chicken and other delightful things which was served with avocado, which was served sliced into the soup, then we had a dessert which was a cheese served with caramel sauce.

We had a rest after that and did a bit of blogging and getting ready for that nights gastronomic delights at yet another restaurant well known in Bogota. It was the restaurant of a musicians brother, and he was a muso as well. The food was once again brilliant and then they played some latin music and people danced and sang along with the music, the atmosphere was really exciting. It was a great day for our last day in Colombia. We got home latish, finished our packing as we had an early start next morning, as we set off for Quito our next stop before heading for Le Cocoa where we head down the Napo river and our canoe trip.

We went to so many places that we had trouble remembering what they were all called, in hind sight we should have taken down the names of all the places so we could have put them in this blog which is a sort of diary.

I am having a bit of trouble typing as my ring finger and little finger on my right hand are still swollen and black and typing with them is a bit of a trial. I hope they are better by the time I get back and that I don’t have any permanent damage. Oh well.

Generally we are having a great time, even though we were told that lots of places in Sth America are dangerous, we haven’t at any time felt threatened, but we do take care, and of course we do stand out a bit. One of the locals told us not only are we white, but we are tall. It is amazing that so many people speak ‘Inglis’. This country is different to any place we have seen before, it is really beautiful, picturesque and unique.

Well will sign off, anyone who reads this is welcome to make comments, we look forward to reading every day to see of anyone has made comments. For the Colombians who may read this, I hope I have got all the things I have said correct, apologies if I offend.