Bogota Day 356
Saturday February 27, 2010 – Arrived at around 7.30am after a pretty good 9hr trip. Early in the morning Lee got up to get some stuff out of his bag, while he was doing it we went around a corner and he fell on top of 2 Colombian girls that were sound a sleep. They weren’t hurt at all but the corner was a big one so Lee was stuck for longer than he should have been……it was quite funny.
I had found a place to stay called Hostel Sue #3 so we gave the address to the cabbie but he couldn’t find it. We did get dropped off at one of them (couldn’t tell you which one) then found out that #3 no longer exists……so that’s why we couldn’t find it!!
We sat around till 12 to see if a room became available (well I sat, Lee slept), no luck but they did have one in the other ‘Sue’. We checked it out but it was right on the TV room and would be pretty noisy. So we walked the town trying to find beds, we couldn’t find anything for tonight, but we did book 2 nights each at Cranky Croc & Fatima in private rooms so at least we had a bed for the following 4 nights……this place is really busy probably the busiest in 12 months!!!!
We returned back to ‘Sue’ hoping they had not sold the bed luckily for us it was still free. We dropped our bags & went down to Mora Mora for something to eat, then went back to the room and slept for about 4hrs.
Dinner was probably the cheapest meal we have had, we shared a large meat plate at a tiny restaurant. It consisted of grilled beef & chicken, yummy boiled new potatoes, chips & marrow – all that plus drinks for nearly 11,000 (about $6). While we were there we met Brian (NZ) & Jess (Aus) they were sitting at the table next to us. They had been living in the UK for the past 4 years and are on their way home to Aus to find a job and somewhere to live.
Awesome couple we chatted heaps then went for a few cocktails at a tiny little bar/cafe we had found when we were looking for somewhere to eat. After 3 cocktails each, they were 2 for 1, we went to another bar ‘Lymbo Rock Bar’ and had a couple more drinks. It must of been 80’s hour or something because they were playing Metallica, Midnight Oil, ACDC etc it was a great place playing some good music. By the time we decided to leave it was after 2am……time flies when you are having fun.
During our chats we decided to all go to the Salt Cathedral tomorrow, they are staying at Cranky Croc so it will work in perfectly as we are checking in there tomorrow. We will meet for brekkie around 10.