We had an early start today as we had setup a two day tour north of Bogota to Villa de Leiva. It took us a little while to get out of the city traffic -- it's as bad as any city here. We realized how bad the pollution was with the weekday traffic filling the roads. It was nice to get out of that. Bogota is a city of ten million, after all...
We had a short coffee stop on the way. I finally managed to get some money out of the ATMs. These have been particularly finicky for us. Credit cards aren't universal and we'll need cash to pay for a lot of things.
Our next stop was the Salt Cathedral. This is a cathedral carved out of a salt mine. We descended down 180m below the surface. There was some white salt but a lot was a gray type of salt. Along the way, they had carved out crosses out of the salt. It was interesting albeit commercialized a bit. They advertise this as the number one wonder of Colombia. They had a LED light show and a 3-D movie at bottom. Take a look at a few of the pictures... One is of a four inch pool of salt water that was a perfect reflector!
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