Gardens, Food and Street Art

We had a free day today in Bogota and decide to go to the Botanical Gardens of Bogotá. Wandering the gardens was a peaceful delight. Plants from all of the Colombian ecosystems were featured.

There are large Tropical Greenhouses with amazing displays of all the ecosystems.

We ate lunch at the cafe in the gardens. We had a tasty vegan salad. Later for dinner we found a cute little vegan restaurant called Maria Candela.

We took a walk around our hotel’s historic La Candelaria neighborhood. Its architecture is from the Spanish Colonial era. We delighted in the street art on the buildings.

Following a walking tour from the guidebook, we came upon the streets filled with people walking and congregating at the bars and at the cute Plazoleta Chorro de Quevedo. It was definitely where the action is.