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Travels - Colombia
Arrived: Monday 05 September
2005
Trips done: Bogotà, Girardot, Santa Marta
Visa: 30+30 days
Intro: Ok, first of all I must deny the common say that Colombia is the land of the drug,
that all its people are involved in drugs or illegal activities,
that all the tourists who are traveling to Colombia are seeking drugs
and so forward...It is just big bullshit: for instance, the
majority of the locals never tried cocaine not even once in their life. The only dumb asses are those fucking tourists entering colombia attracted by tasting the purest drug in the world which is also
a big bullshit because the purest stuff comes from Peru and Bolivia.
Anyway fuck all those crap about drugs. Local people in colombia,
do less drugs than in europe or usa. So fuck off with your cliché.
05/09/05 Arrived safely, the
city of Bogota is located at 2600mt and it is quite cold, even if less
than Peru. Bogota is a very green city and is not true that it is
dangerous. in fact it is very very quiet. This time I was lucky: the
lady named Gina who offered me the accommodation in Bogota, after
fetching me at the airport ,she brought me around the city but she
understood I was sick and tired of big cities and cold weather, so after
thinking a few minutes she told me that she could send me in another
place giving me these details: she owns a villa in the forest in
a place called Flantes, not far from the small town of Girardoit : the
house is huge and there is a swimming pool, a big garden, palm
trees, flowers, chickens I don't know what else, plus she has two horses
that I can ride and she even own a small lake rich of fishes. "...the
only problem is that you have to go there alone cause I have to work,
but don't worry, there are 2 domestics to take care of you...you can go
there and use the house whenever you want" she said! So I replied: "OKEY
IMMEDIATELY!!!" The morning later, I was chilling out with a
coconut in the jacuzzi. The house is new and still under
construction/decoration.
Noble scopes for begging (dedicated
page)
Title:
Adios Bogotà
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Year and location: 2005, Bogotà, Colombia
Description: Miscellaneous clips of my time in Bogotà with my
favorite latin song of the moment as soundtrack...
Size: 32 Mb Format: .wmv
Language: English
Credits: Video/Audio editing:
Alan Rooster ; Camera: Andrea
; Car and horse: Andrea
Title:
A rooster on an horse !?
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Year and location: 2005, Bogotà, Colombia
Description: Me riding an horse and trying to
stand up on his back like I saw in the circus.
Size: 30 Mb Format: .wmv
Language: English
Credits: The rooster: Alan Rooster ,
The horse: Baron ,Camera: Andrea
Audio,video editing: Alan Rooster
Andrea's family, have been very very lovely with me, especially her mother who
treated me better than a son. She also taught me
something very useful, she's a graphic designer, so she gave me some
good lessons of Photoshop! [In the right pic , with
Marina , andrea's mother, mi segunda mama]
<<
Andre' , Javier and me celebrating with a colombian cake in Maria Paula
house.
>> Javier and me , my best friend in Colombia, he contributed for the
video "Noble scopes for begging" offering a nice digital camera for the
shooting and also his good talent on handling the footage. In the
picture we are celebrating the success of the video with a colombian
beer : BRAVA , the strongest (6.5°) and the cheapest. One of those beers
was bought with the money collected during the video!
<< Me and Andrea with a nice view
of Bogota in the background
>> Me and
Andrea's best friend
<<
Alan Rooster waiting for the train...
>> Me with 2 policemen : in Colombia the standard uniform for police
officers is the army outfit and f*** big rifles!!! Yes they're still in
war status almost everywhere in the country: there are 3 factions
fighting at the moment: paramilitary, terrorists and police.
Me and my love Choco!
Andrea's dog who I fell in love with. We had so many
adventures together :) In this picture, we just got back from a trip up
to a mountain where he helped me to discover huge mushrooms. It became
so attached to me and me to it, that I was really sad when I left the
country. I would love to have a dog like it , and I hope Andrea will
take good care of it from my side too. A huge kiss and hug for Choco, I
miss you :(
>> Yes , I admit , I did jump from the roof in the swimming pool once...
<< My eating place , my homemade barbeque was fantastic , I was having
breakfast ( grilled bananas) , lunch (grilled vegetables) , and dinner (
grilled meat).
Me & Gina
<<
With friends on the beach, Pilar, me, Andrea, Veruzka and her daughter.
Veruzkha hosted me in a quiet area of S.Marta with her daughter
and her grandmother who was entertaining me with cool old colombian
stories! They were preparing me very tasty and good meals and thanks to
Veruzkha. I met a nice girl on the beach, but what a pity I just stayed
there less than a week! Veruzkha is very friendly,
funny with a singular personality , so I wish for her best luck to find
her mr.right.
