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Plazarte is an initiative of Santiago Martinez, theater director who studied Clown and puppets in Germany. Since 2006, he has tried to create a common space between trade in the local market of “La Concordia” and arts performing.

The idea is to enjoy an act while having a typical "Santafereño" breakfast in this particular space, mixing contemporary proposals with a local tradition since 1933 .You can choose between; Egg Casserole (fried or poached) with orange juice or tamale (very typical), both options with hot chocolate, sliced bread, butter and cheese.

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During the past decades, Bogotá has been Internationally recognized by dozens of awards as City with heart, City of peace, Major Square of the Latin-American Culture world book capital city among other between others.

It is not exaggerated to say that our Bogota is the South American Athens since we see how it is turning gradually into a big cultural city, which generously welcomes in its universities and spaces anyone that wants to be a participant of this big Latin-American capital full of literature and arts!

What better way to prove all of the latest that by touring its green and sunny slopes that contrast with that beautiful brick red color of its modern buildings: Rumble its colonial streets in search of a site that enclosures pre-Columbian treasures, feel the dynamism of its development at the fast pace of streets, avenues, commerce.

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Enjoy the flavors and aromas of coffee and recently harvest fruits , get delighted with the vivid expression of the people in hundreds of multicolor cloths, rest and then feel the vibe of a shaking night of party.

Bogota is one of those cities that are pure joy when sunny and warm as well as rainy and cold. Monserrate: Built in the XVII century this monastery built by the spaniards over an indigenous temple can be reached by cable car where you can enjoy the best panoramic of the city.

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Rogelio Salmona is the modern best-known Colombian architect. For 10 years, he worked for Le Corbusier in Paris. Salmona’s work is the spine of the Colombian architecture.

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The works bequeathed by architect Rogelio Salmona are an additional tourist attraction as much by the quality of their buildings and urban spaces as by their documentary value in the urban development of Bogota.

Rogelio Salmona’s master work in addition to its meaning for the national architecture history, it is a cultural product to be red in brick color tones, in lights and shades, as a point of reference of popular aesthetic, as an expression of collective memory and as an exploration of a personal speech of the urban universe. The work integration of architecture and urbanism to the subject of the Cultural Tourism in Bogotá, is an important step for the mixing of a model of management of the sustainable cultural patrimony, that participates in the economic dynamics of the city.

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For the last 60 years the urban development and exponential growth of Bogota has undertaken disorganized processes causing a negative impact in many ecosystems and rural communities. The city hunger has been fueled by both legal and illegal actions where the government has been responsible for many inner displacements pressuring farmers

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and people living from agriculture to either move to further rural areas or converting from a rural to an urban way of life, most of the time undesirable for these communities.

An example of heroic resistance and counter pressure can be found in the south oriental limits of the city. A community initiative that through a peaceful and intelligent process convinced high spheres in the local administration to change law ranking decrees.

The same day the victory came with the annulation of the decrees this community created the Agroparque los Soches. A community based rural tourism project which main objective is to create a sustainable model for this community to safeguard its rural way of life.

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Everyday during your stay in Bogotá you will see these overwhelming “guardians” at the east of the city and you will wonder what´s the story behind them. The good news is that current public and private efforts are preventing the east mountain range to be devoured by both legal and illegal construction saving an unique ecosystem that withholds the greatest diversity of wildlife ( flora & fauna ) found in the city. It is particularly interesting

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how urban and rural areas meet at this threshold that has been recovered from the verge of its termination at the end of the XX century.

Nowadays, this environmental haven is open to the public (with restrictions) and makes a heck of a walk to wonder in its linear shape path surrounded by some of the most pompous residential buildings. Currently a conservation mega project wants to blind this ecosystem by transforming the oriental mountain range within Bogotá in a huge park preventing once and for all the invasion of this green area.

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Corabastos is the second biggest food plaza in South America. This true gastronomic haven is vivid and busy early in the morning where fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs and other food deliquesces arrive from all over the country to supply the need of a bustling city of 8 million people requiring over 4,000 workers generating a flow of over 500,000 people during a normal day. The visit will highlight and embrace the work of thousands of individuals and families that day by day assist to the plaza as drivers, coteros (people unloading the food), logistics, buyers and sellers, complementary services (lottery games, cooked food and all sorts of products and services) plus the complex and many times rough situations facing this commercial activity.

Our host, Helena Salguero, the maker of the documentary “Sinfonía de Mercado” , Market`s Symphony, a masterpiece shot in Corabastos will introduce us to this world where she has spent quality time over the last 3 years under the interesting perspective of honoring the work of the people at the market with an audiovisual proposal winner of a grant of the local administration of Bogotá.

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Traditional drinks have been always present among Bogotanos, the hot chocolate from spain, the aguapanela from the sugar cane west Colombia, salpicón, chirrinchi, chicha, masato, refajo, the traditional and always miraculous aromática. These are just some of the drinks we in Bogotá (and in most Colombia) consume, there is mystery, history and many stories behind these liquids. The idea is to try them all.

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The “red district” of Bogotá, also called, the high impact zone is the only legal area in the city where prostitution is legal. Following the example of Amsterdam this is an attempt from the local administration to consolidate inclusive processes, have more control over the situation and establish a better grasp of prostitution, an activity that is present in most medium and large cities around the world.

It becomes necessary to walk this area to create your own opinion on how well or not things are going with this process.

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Lagunaseca Posada del Páramo is located over 3000 m.n.s.n, immersed in a primary forest of the beautiful highlands of Guasca, just an hour and a half northeast from Bogota City and two hours walking from the sacred lakes of Siecha (Chingaza National Park). Thus its architectural and ecological value among an integrated project of renewable energies, Lagunaseca is specially thought for; rest lovers, bird watchers, friends of natural landscape and hikers.

Our plan includes: A visit to an organic local farm, lunch in Lagunaseca (a beautiful residence of local artist Ana Mercedes Góez), and a hiking tour to the Siecha Lakes.

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Governments in Bogotá, as in the rest of Colombia, have been avoiding for a long time the formulation of concrete policies regarding waste uses and recycling. Meanwhile an informal sector coming from the poorest areas of the city has been living from collecting potentially useful materials from what general citizens had already considered garbage by throwing them away or setting them on the streets. Today there are more than twelve thousand people living from this activity and around sixty thousand (their families) depending on their work in Bogota.

We would like to introduce you the social and political processes of the (ARB) Cooperative Association of Bogota’s Recyclers. As accompanying one journey of waste collection, stockpiling and selling in the buy-back centers guided by local “recyclers” who are now working in defense of the recycling sector aware of the social and environmental services

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given daily by them to the whole community. About 30% of the value will go towards a donation on uniforms and other immediate needs to the Cooperative.

One of the main objectives of organizing hand by hand with the ARB this tour is to develop alternative ways of income for the cooperative and gradually generate income with added value services than their main activity of collecting waste material.

Additional to the learning journey specified in the latest section we can organize a recycling live experience following a group of recyclers on their circuit in the north area of Bogotá ( behind Unicentro shopping mall ) at night. The days available for this experience are monday, wednesday and friday. The experience would not have any costs and it will be open for other foreigners and colombians interested.

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This workshop is experiential dining performed in order to rescue and raise awareness of our flavors at an open doors experiential workshop. Additionally, the gastronomic experience will be articulated with local organic products such as; cubios, quinua, maracuya, lulo, borojó, uchuvas in between others.

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On this tour we will visit the most famous restaurant / disco in the country, Andrés Carne de Res, located in the outskirts of Bogotá approximately one (1) hour from Bogotá. Once the tour is confirmed the company does the reservation securing the best possible table, one the people arrive to the restaurant the guide will pay the entrance tickets, locate the table, storage the client´s personal belonging in lockers, and take the order.

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Once we order, the guide will explain the restaurant´s concept, its history, expansion and how it transformed from a six table restaurant to an icon in the country. There is an internal tour side to side in the restaurant visiting sites such as: The souvenir store, the grill, the bathrooms, each food station (salads, fruits, cocktails, etc.) observing interesting processes such as the famous: Beef tenderloin cooked in a dish rag in the fire-sealed The tour is six (6) hours long from the time agreed in the reservation.