DAY 25 - BOGOTA

This is where we went this morning.  I copied the following from the internet.  It was a real hike from our hotel just to get to the base of the mountain.  We took the Funicular up and the Gondola back down.  The total cost was $8.00:


Monserrate Mountain top
The permanent centinel of bogota, this hill is the principal tourist attraction of the city, 3.512 mt over the sea. Has a Sanctuary dedicated to the Monserrat Lady founded in 1640 by Don Juan de Borja he was the president of the "Nuevo Reino de Granada".
This Hill's enviroment is a natural place who invites to the inner reflexion, also is a massive attractive place for worship, people ascend to monserrate as a penitence to visit the fallen lord's sanctuary a master piece created by Pedro Lugo & Albarracin.
Monserrat is a reference point of the city over the east hills. Since immemorial times is visited by several people, tourist and curious ones attracted by the beauty and breathtakiness of the hill.

It can be accessed by foot taking around 30 minutes and 2 hours depending on the speed and resistance of the visiter. Also there is two magnificent ways to ascend that doesn't take more than 5 minutes to go to the top of the hill: The cable railway founded in 1955, these are cabins who can carry a maximum of 40 passengers each one, with windows on it and the Land Railway a small train with windows on the roof and the sides to appreciate the natural wonders in the hill like the sabana forest, the panoramic view and the amazing sunset.

Tomorrow morning we go to the airport and pick up our bikes and head toward Cali, Bogota.

 The Church at the top.

 The triangular park with the white roofs is a flea market right across the street from our hotel.