Chapter 01
The altitude hits before the city does
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Destination · Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia
High, complicated, and fully alive
A capital that has spent decades remaking itself and still carries every argument it hasn't finished having.
12 chapters ahead
Climate
Perpetual early autumn — cool enough for a jacket by evening, bright enough by noon to forget you packed one.
Best season
December through March, when the dry season keeps the Andes clear and the city runs on full energy before the rains return.
Atmosphere
- mountain
- urban-dense
- colonial-layered
- cosmopolitan
- nocturnal
- artsy
- literary
- culinary
- intense
- walkable
- sprawling
The chapters
12 ways to get lost here
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Chapter 02
Graffiti with government permission
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Chapter 03
The ajiaco question has no wrong answer
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Chapter 04
The Tehran of the Americas
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Chapter 05
Sunday belongs to the bicycle
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Chapter 06
La Candelaria holds the original argument
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Chapter 07
Botero left, then gave everything back
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Chapter 08
García Márquez learned to lie here first
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Chapter 09
The flower parade moves a whole city
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Chapter 10
The north and south are different countries
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Chapter 11
Nightlife here starts at midnight. Exactly.
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Chapter 12
The coffee region is three hours and a world away
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Keep wandering
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