Great day 1. Catedral de Sal and Museo de Oro accomplished. Details here: Betsy's Blog, Day 1
Here’s our hotel.
Like most modern buildings in Bogota & Medellin, it’s made of brick. It works for me, I think it looks great. Here's the building across the street. Pretty typical of the nice residential neighborhood.
and a shot of Joaquin, just because he's so cute.
On to Zipaquira / Catedral de Sal. Nothing makes you feel safer than heavily-armed military police just hanging out at the entrance to the park.
mmmm...arepas. Arepas are the Colombian version of tortillas, but imagine if they stopped pounding them flat at 1/4 of an inch. And instead of bland flour or white corn, use very sweet yellow corn. Grill quickly, so they're crispy on the outside but still gooey on the inside. Now slather in butter and cover with cheese. Yes, yummy. That’s why I was so excited to see a sign for a food stand called “Arepa’s World” (don’t sweat the apostrophe. We’ll see much worse misuse of English throughout our journey).
What good is an amazing cathedral carved into the hollows of an old salt mine without a huge rock-climbing structure outside? Adrian rocked it.
Inside the salt cathedral. Walking down the mine shaft tunnel to the cathedral, there is salt lining the walls. Even though you know that thousands of visitors before you have done the exact same thing, you can’t help yourself - you lick your finger, touch the wall, and lick your finger again to prove to yourself that yes, this is salt. I propped the kids up on my shoulders to allow them to lick-dab-lick the ceiling of the tunnel, where hopefully fewer people had done so before.
Lots more pictures on the trip photo album here.
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