COLOMBIA - By Emarg

Bogotá: Gold Museum









Department: Bogotá
City: Bogotá
Place: Gold Museum







Nowadays an essential for the tourists who visit the city, the Gold Museum of Bogotá has the largest collection of pre-columbian golden objects in the world. The museum shows how the old cultures before the arrival of the Spanish collected the gold and how important it was on their routine, from the daily use to the religious and shamanic employments. Its most relevant piece is the Balsa Muisca, a representation of the El Dorado legend.

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Bogotá: BD Bacatá









Department: Bogotá
City: Bogotá
Place: BD Bacatá







BD Bacatá, currently on construction, is a complex who’s going to have the tallest towers of Colombia, the South Tower of 260m. high and the North Tower of 216m. high. Its design consist in a stepped disposition of glass boxes, with open space between the two towers at the middle of the block. It will be used for residences, a commercial centre, offices and a hotel.

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Bogotá: El Dorado Int. Airport









Department: Bogotá
City: Bogotá
Place: El Dorado International Airport







The El Dorado Airport is one of the most important airports of the region of the Caribbean and the North of South America thanks to the strategic geographical location of Bogotá. It currently has the bussiest cargo terminal of Latin America and many of its flights are stop overs from before the final destinations between the north and the south of the continent. The biggest amount of passengers who pass through El Dorado travel to the cities of Panama, Lima and Miami. This airport is also the HUB of Avianca.

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Take-Off from Bogotá (El Dorado Airport)









Department: Bogotá
Cty: Bogotá
Place: Take-Off from Bogotá (El Dorado Airport)






Following next, some aerial images of Bogotá, taken from the take-off from the El Dorado Airport. Next week: new stuff from the city of Medellín.

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Quick City Overview: Medellín









Department: Antioquia
City: Medellín
Place: Quick City Overview







Appart from being the second biggest city of Colombia, Medellín is known worldwide for its urban revival. A large number of its neighborhoods are connected by a huge transport system of elevated trains, tramways and cable cars (called Metrocable). This system was accompanied by new security measures and the construction of enormous buildingsm the so-called Bibliotecas, whom could be translated as "Libraries" though they are more than that and they act as providers of culture throughout the city. For those who visit the city nowadays, the hope can be felt in the streets. Specially after decades of the violence of the drug cartels (mostly the Medellín Cartel of Pablo Escobar), kidnappings, high crime and the guerrilas, the change is finally tangible.

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