Exploring more of Bogotá

After two rather lonely days in Bogotá, I met up with other exchange students for an event organised by the ‘Hermanos sin fronteras’ (brothers without borders), a volunteer-based programme provided by my Colombian university in charge of organising social events and generally helping exchange students. I have to say that the ~10 hours we spent exploring the area around our university were an absolute blast and I am super happy to share my experience in Colombia with such fun and lovely people from many different countries (well, mostly Germany).

We covered three museums (Museo del Oro, Museo Botero and Museo Casa de Moneda), as well as wandering around the gigantic city. As the two volunteers are local to Bogotá, they not only showed us well-known tourist sights like the Plaza Bolívar, but also beautiful hidden parts that tourists usually wouldn’t have the pleasure of discovering. All of the museums were amazing (unfortunately it didn’t come to my mind to take pictures in any of them) and walking around Bogotá with a local’s perspective gave the city and entirely different feeling. After this day I felt much more at home in this foreign place, in addition to having had the opportunity to practice my Spanish quite a lot!