Neighboors

Have you ever seen the beautiful characteristics  our neighborhoods have? Are you one of the persons who think Bogota is full of danger and crimminals? Bogota is a big city, cozy, which has problems but it also has many beautiful things. Sometimes problems, difficulties, accidents, insecurity, makes Bogota image awful. Would you like to know all the positive things that we can find in the different neighborhoods of Bogota? This is the opportunity to show the beauty things Bogota has inside. 

 

There are 20 different localities in Bogota and in this localities there is a total of 1200 neighborhoods. All of them are very important to our history because important fact happened there. Some of the most important neighborhoods in Bogota are La Candelaria, that is the hole historic center, it is touristic for all the facts that ocurred there. La Zona T, which is a beautiful place for eating with family or hanging out with friends to different activities. Near Pablo Sexto, is one of the most important parks here in Bogota, it is called Parque Simon Bolivar, its a beautiful place for having a funny and great day with the family having a picnik. It is also used for concerts of popular people and radio concerts. 

In conclusion Bogota is a grate city to visit. It offers you plans for having fun, know about its history, and live through the colonial culture. If you take some of your time to visit and enjoy this wonderful places you will see that Bogota is not the dangerous city for what is identified, but is a city full of smiles, kind people, activities you can enjoy, interesting history and many different characteristics Bogota has. 

Natalia Castrillon B

Unicentro Mall

Have you ever wondered how many malls has your city? well here in Bogota we have many options, for example Unicentro.This mall has a big variety of shops where you can find everything you need, from a pair of shoes to all the materials you need for a school project. 

I love going there because if i need something i can buy it and if i'm hungry too there's a food plaza were you can eat meat, hamburger, pasta, hot dogs, mexican food, chinesse food chicken and more. Its a great place for being with family or friends, you can watch a movie and play bowling with your friends, if you want you also can go shopping. If you have a little brother or sister you can go with him or her to the first floor were you  have a huge variety of game machines like guitar hero, car driving,space simulators and more, also if you are hungry there are many dessert shops near by, for example dunkin donnuts, crepes and wafles ices creams. If you have to buy a toy for a little kid there are shops like pepe ganga were you will find lots of options or there is falabella too wich is a huge shop of 2 floors and if you are a music lover there is a shop called prodicos were you will find any cd, finally if you love reading you can find nacional library that has books of every gender.

In conclucion this mall is a great place to have fun because you can get what you need, eat, have fun, buy clothes and the last but most important to have a great time with your familly talking and making the various activity's that this mall offers.

Vilma Tirado

 

Crepes & Waffles Restaurant

Have you ever visited the best restaurant in the world?
Crepes & Waffles 

Well, if not , you have to visit Crepes & Waffles , there are many of them in Bogota and in other cities like Cartagena , Cali , Ecuador , Panama Etc.

This restaurant will attend you with too much love , hospitality and attention. Crepes & Waffles have a lot of creativity because of the decoration and their menus. This restaurant have a beautiful and interesting story , that would captivate your attention ; Crepes & Waffles is a restaurant that is symbolic, for their food that is so delicious, most of the food are crepes with different recipes and specialties, and do not forget the delicious ice creams and the desserts of waffles . Some of the delicious food and most eaten in this big restaurant are :

- The Miniwaffles
- The ''pitas''
- The Panne cook
- The Salt Crepes
- The special Soups
And others ,Finally if you visit this restaurant you will be captivated , cause the attention , the decoration , their creativity and the delicious food, I advise you to go to this restaurant to eat a tasty food, and enjoy.

The history of Crepes & Waffles:

the founder of Crepes & waffles is Beatriz Fernandez, that with her creativity she invented , a very famous restaurant in Colombia, which expands increasingly

The story begins in the small restaurant that Beatriz have in the parking of her father in 1980. One day, came a strange lady, who told Beatriz that their waffles were disgusting, the strange lady , helpfully gave his secret recipe, cause she was adept at making waffles, This recipe is still use in the big restaurant Crepes & Waffles. After that, the restaurant took success, and began to expand.

- The first Crepes & Waffles was in an small local of Bogota located in '' Calle 85 con carrera 11''

- After 3 years , it was open the second Crepes & Waffles that was located in the Bogota International Mall.

- trying to go further, and expand more, it was opened a Crepes & waffles in Cartagena.

- They had many commitments with the people that visit the restaurant , that it was decided to create the official mark Crepes & Waffles , and open the third restaurant in Bogota.

- In 1989 they open a Crepes & Waffles in Cali .

- In 1994 they open a Crepes & waffles in Medellin.

- In 1995 '' '' in Ecuador

- In 1997 '' '' in Panama

In the 2000 Crepes & Waffles already had 29 restaurants , and increasingly enriched their customers with their love and attention.

Each day, employees of Crepes & Waffles are ready to receive their clients with love and hospitality, in this restaurant that became so famous in the country.

In conclusion, Crepes & Waffles is one of the most visited and favorite restaurants in Colombia, because of the quality, taste and nutrition that have their foods, that captivated Colombians.
This restaurant is the most indicates for a special occasion, or a dinner with your family, this restaurant will treat you with hospitality, and adequate service , that you will want to come back , every time .

Crepes & Waffles is one of my favorite restaurants because I love , the service , their delicious food , the decoration and also their creativity ; Also have an interesting and amazing story , And it is in most of the countries of Colombia.

Gold Museum

Have you ever visited the best museum ever?

If not you should visit the Gold museum where you can learn about Precolombian Culture, you can also enjoy watching Gold pieces made on the epoch, and acquire knowledge about native people living in Colombia years ago.The Golden Museum has different atractives and It is really Intresting to go there.

 Mainly  in 1940 the Republican bank received one piece made of Gold called "Poporo", This piece was the one that started the museum,  after this piece the Bank started a colection with and they got approximatly 1,479 precolombian objects. the museum was inagurated in 1968.

There are different rooms each one expose different topics:

Work in metals: Describes how natives worked the metal materials and minery.

People and Gold in prehispanic Colombia. Contextualizes the use of metals within the political and religious organization.

Cosmology and symbolism. Explore the mythic themes, and symbolism of metals.

The offering. A modern room representing the offering ceremony, through visuals, sound and careful assembly of pieces of jewelry.

The exploratory. Interactive room that promotes diversity and significance of heritage preserved by the Museum

Finally this Museum has different atractives were you can learn about native people hundred years ago and interact with different rooms.

You Will enjoy a great trip trough History.

Manuela Vargas Osorno