Mike's Bogota Blog

A hiking trail through Bogotá's Eastern Hills. Last year, the Museo de Bogotá (located on Carrera 4 and Calle 10, in La Candelar...

Eating and playing in the street behind the Paloquemao Market. Bogotá is vacant these days (except for tourists), its streets empty,...

A freshly-cut tree stump on Carrera Septima, in the city center. Trees cool cities down, reduce pollution, noise and stress, and add b...

Impoverished Colombians are much more likely to have suffered from Colombia's conflict. So, why did they vote against the peace ac...

Recently, in its desperation to expand its peso-hemorrhaging SITP bus system, the Petro administration has been slapping 'SITP...

A massive traffic jam on Calle 26 in central Bogotá. The traffic app Waze has given Bogotá yet another outstanding rating, but this ...

Residents walk along a cobblestone street in La Candelaria.  La Candelaria, Bogotá's oldest neighborhood and still the cit...