After spending five lovely days in Medellin, truly surprised at the excellent quality and quantity of their street art, graffiti, murals and yes outright vandalism, I wondered what Bogota had in store for me. Well, compared to Medellin, the amount of pure trashy vandalism here in Bogota was so disappointing. It seems that every idiot with a pair of arms and access to spray paint decided to “tag” and RUIN so much of it’s charm and beauty. Yes there is also incredible world-class street art here, and that’s the focus of my story today.
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Museo de Oro the Fort Knox of Bogota
Hola from the capital of Colombia, Bogota! As I’m making my way south to Buenos Aires for a friends wedding, I’m spending a few days in the center of the Colombian world. It’s a busy city, with people scurrying to and for, taxis swerving, honking and certainly keeping you PAYING ATTENTION, buses spouting auto exhaust and unfortunate vandalism style graffiti everywhere – though with some excellent street art peppered in to give the city artistic hope – Bogota is definitely alive and kicking! But this story isn’t about the street art, this is about the city as the capital of a friendly, growing major city withing South America, and about the fabulous Museo do Oro, the Fort Knox of Bogota. Well if Fort Knox was a museum…maybe it is, I’ve yet to visit..