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

Maloka

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=

Font Show
Every day to 06:45 p.m.

Address:Carrera 68D N° 24A - 51

Tel:(57-1) 4272707

Atlantis Plaza

Located in the north of Bogota, in the heart of the Zona rosa, Atlantis Plaza it is an encounter site, that reunites to modernity and the spectacle.

There you will be able to find the best marks, the last fashion and the most exclusive designs.

Everything with the comfort and the class from the best commercials world´s malls.

Services

• Wireless Internet
• Hairdressing salon
• CarWash
• Cab Service
• Infantile attractions
• Among others
  

Adress: CL 81 # 13-05
Tel: (57) (1) 6066200

Cicloruta

It is a designed place that contribute to stimulate the use of alternative means of transport in the city, also encourage practices of the sport, to disclose all type of activity or event that is related to the average culture, art, sport and the recreation like having one better quality of life in our city and contributing to the citizen culture.

Bogota's CicloRutas (Bike Paths) are one of the longest in the world covering a total of 301KM, from Monserrate to the Bogota River. On Sundays, approximately 1.5 Million people take to the streets in their bicycles as 120KM of streets are closed. I think this is a great initiative by the Bogota local government and allows for the reduction of smog from emissions and encourages healthy alternatives to mass transportation as well as exercise for the masses.


This is a picture of the Septima Street(Downtown), there are many more bike paths(ciclorutas) that you can find in this bogota map



From:Black_Hat's

Granizo

Colombia has no seasons, eventually rains from april to june, and the sun appears from july to september and the rest of months can be rainy or sunny, but is very rare to see "granizo"; (littles rocks of solid water), this happens one time in a year or one time in two years, and personaly i think is great see we it happen, at first is scary because the "water rocks" hits so hard that you think is gonna break the house´s windows but in the end is a beautiful show, and is traditional here when this happen expect days of good luck.



from: glurrea

Colombian arepa de huevo

This a traditional food from the Colombian Atlantic Coast, it´s called also "Empanada de huevo"

Cost : US $.50


Time of preparation: 30 minutes
Number of portions: : 8


Ingredients:

1 pounded maize pound
8 eggs
2 onions
1 unit of mature tomato
Salt and pepper to the pleasure

Preparation:

• Put the maize in soaking the day previous.
• Take half and to cook in water during 20 minutes.
• Add other crude half and to let cool.
• Grind everything with a little salt and to knead.

-Meanwhile, beat the eggs with the onions and the tomato. To ripen with salt and pepper.

-Next, to take portions from maize and to form balls, to flatten them on banana or plastic leaves, until they are of ½ cm of thickness and 10 cm of diameter.

-Next, to fry them in the hot oil until they raise and they puff up. To retire them with a skimmer, to make a small groove and to fill up them with the egg mixture, onion and tomato.

-To close the groove with a little crude mass and being pressed and to put again in the oil during 2 minutes, until they are gilded.

Santamaria´s Bullring

Santamaría´s Bullfigth Ring is the main bullring in Bogota (Colombia), it is located in the sector of San Diego.

Account with a capacity of 14,500 spectators and is administered by the Bogota´s Bullfighting Corporation.

It was inaugurated the 8 of February of 1931, with the performance of Manolo Martinez, Angel Navas and Mariano the Rodriguez, who fought the cattle ranch of Mondoñedo.

His main promoter was the cattle dealer Ignacio Sanz de Santamaría, who donated the land in where she was constructed and in whose honor granted this name to him to this scene.

Annually the bullfighting season is made in her during the months of January and February, in which traditionally they appear recognized bullfighting figures world-wide.


Address : Carrera 6 Nº 26-50

Tel : (57) (1) 3341482


From : yalilaguiselle

Bogota Colombian "Cocadas"

Ingredients

250 gr. of grated coconut
1 cup of sugar
4 egg whites
½ cup of condensed milk

Preparation

To beat the egg whites to point snows and to add little by little the sugar in the shape of rain then add the condensed milk mixed with the grated coconut.


1.To form coconut candies with the aid of 2 spoons and to drop them over butter plates of furnace.

2.Taken to the oven preheated of 300°F (180°C) during 15 to 20 minutes approximately.

3.Retire of the furnace, to cool and to come off them the plate.

Around 10 coconut candies

This is candy of conical form, with a base of 5 cm and one height of 5 cm. Is of yellow, white or brown (the color is given by the type of sugar) color and its surface is irregular, forming longitudinal furrows throughout the piece. The weight of the unit is approximately 40 gr.


This a popular candy from the atlantic and pacific Colombian region, but you can find them here in Bogotá.

Soccer Game

The futbol as know in english the soccer is the most important game in Colombia, in Bogota de Nemesio Camacho "El Campin" is the main stadium who reprecents two teams, Millonarios and Santa Fe, every sunday there is a game in this stadium, this is a pictures of a regular soccer game between Millonarios Team and Santa fe Team and this game is traditional called it "Clasico" or "Classic" because is for more of 50 years this two teams look for be the number one in Bogota.