Day 122 - Doing our duty!

Bogota

Another nice modern airbnb apartment to stay in, in what was once known as one of the most dangerous cities in the world, Bogotá. K's friend from Bogotá, (that's you Camillo!) told us not to visit his home city, and some of the stories we've heard about the city are pretty scary so we set out for the day with our wits about us.

Our first stop was the Australian Consulate to lodge our vote and we decided to catch Uber as the taxis have a reputation, and we'd met someone in Quito who had recommended it. The consulate was about half an hour away from the city and we arrived at a new and very modern building with state of the art security. We were shown into two rooms with the flag and pictures of Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop on the wall, and pretty much voted just like we would at home - difference being that it did take some time to get there and back, and there was a bit more security than voting at the local primary school!

Back in the city we headed to the Gold Museum (kind of ironic as K had removed every piece of jewellery she had before stepping onto the streets of Bogotá). There was certainly plenty of gold on display, but most of it was either very thin or small. K was itching to get to see what was in the gift shop but unfortunately didn't see anything that took her fancy.

We then headed for afternoon tea at a coffee shop with good reviews that was apparently owned by some Aussies. The reviews had mentioned flat whites and caramel slice, but we ended up a little disappointed - the coffee cups were tiny, the coffee lukewarm and they didn't have any caramel slice!

On the plus side we had found a supermarket near the Australian Consulate that sold Tikka Masala curry paste so we had yummy chicken tikka masala for dinner - good to be able to cook something with plenty of flavour for a change!