Showing posts with label christmas lights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas lights. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Is This Really Still October?

A Christmas tree rises on Carrera Septima, near the Centro Internacional.
It makes it hard to believe we're still in early October when Christmas trees and decorations are already going up around the city. City officials explain, I understand, that Bogotá contains so many parks and plazas that they have to start way early in order to have the city decorated with Christmas cheer by early December. 

It's an entirely separate question, of course, whether the government of this supposedly secular nation should be in the  Christmas business at all.
Christmas decorations in the Parque de la Independencia.


By Mike Ceaser, of Bogotá Bike Tours

Friday, November 30, 2012

Bogotá's Parks, Plazas and Avenues Light up for Christmas

A crowd packs Ave. Septima by Jimenez under the Christmas lights. 


Bogotá's Christmas lights went on today in its parks, plazas and avenues, and the streets filled with gawkers and gazers.



Iglesia la Tercera. 

Iglesia San Francisco.

Leon de Greiff Park in northern Bogotá.

A lighted tree in Leon de Greiff Park. 

The entrance to the Parque Nacional in Bogotá.
The Parque Nacional's central plaza. 
In Bogotá's Parque de la Independencia. 


Lighted arcs in Parque de la Independencia. 




Stiltwalking under the lights on Ave. Septima.

Walking in La Zona T. 

By Mike Ceaser, of Bogotá Bike Tours