Colombia Trip: Day Three (Part Two)
A single of the most well-liked day trips from Bogotá is to head about an hour north to Zipaquirá, house to the famous Salt Cathedral. To get there you have to head to the finish of the line of the Tranmileno (see above), Bogotá´s above-ground subway program. Zipaquirá, like most towns settled by they Spanish, has an immense square with a attractive cathedral towering more than it as well as several side streets with smaller shops and restaurants. Immediately after another extraordinary lunch from a neighborhood restaurant’s Menu del Dia, I took the quick walk to the edge of town to the Salt Cathedral, the location of a working salt mine exactly where a cathedral, complete with an whole stations of the cross, was dug out of the middle of the mountain. As I was taking the tour with my personal personal guide by means of the caverns (I was the only English-only visitor that day) he told me, “Five miners died in a methane explosion here 4 years ago, but we really should be a...