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After having a great few days in Bogota we headed North to a small place called Zipaquira to check out the famous salt cathedral... dissapointingly not actually made out of salt. It was cut out of the rock left behind by salt miners, and consists of underground chambers containing huge stone crosses eirily lit up with green and blue neon lights (thankfully all minus spooky crucified Jesus). While it was an impressive feat of engineering, the spiritual journey itself ended after an hour not with expected pious enlightenment, but a coffee shop. Hhmm.
We've been so lucky in stumbling upon random holidays and fiestas since being in Colombia (I guess it help there are 18 public holidays a year). In Zipa there were groups of marching bands parading around the plaza all day which was pretty funny to watch (I may possibly have been branded a weirdo by taking so many pictures of children, but they were just so damn cuuuute!!)
We also got treated to a performance of Cartagenian (erm!?) dancers, from Cartagena ahem, that night who were pretty cool. The crowd was loving it - all the old timers in ponchos were doing the shuffle, guys were shaking their butts while the women tried to hide their embarassment, and someone started an epic conga line suddenly cut short by an unfortunatly situated pile of dog poo. Plus we saw the fandango. Good times!
Sadly leaving beautiful Zipa we headed over to the equally lovely colonial town of Villa de Leyva, where it turns out the whole town was flying kites for the day. So we sat in the plaza and watched everyone having fun (well apart from Jack who got hit on the head by one) and spent the whole day lazing around. Making big plans for our second day, the heavens opened as soon as we stepped out, and so here I am instead rambling on as ever. Next up, wherever we can actually get a bus to, hopefully in the right direction.
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