Colombia has become one of the most
interesting country's to travel with a low budget. I had the opportunity
to go there last summer with some of my closest friends and it was
amazing, if I have to be honest almost everything was amazing except the first
day, that one was horrible!
Colombia is an amazing country, the
people is very friendly like in Mexico, the local food is delicious and I
completely recommend the Bandeja paisa before trying anything else. The
Colombian people eat a lot of banana, they have it in almost all the main
plates, I like it!. They have a good weather it could get very warm but it also
can get really cloudy and cold too, it really depends on the season of your
travel.
Even do I'm young I had been in
different museums around the world such as the Louvre in Paris to the MoMa in
New York or National museum of China in Beijing but the Fernando Botero Museum
in Bogota is so beautiful, I think this museum has a special magic in each
painting, Botero said "the envy is the tribute that mediocrity makes
talent". Cartagena de Indias is an other good option to travel inside
Colombia because it's famous for his Ciudad amurallada place and if you love
the beach and the sun you should go one day!
As soon as we arrived to the Dorado airport
in Bogota we went to the hotel to get ready and we head up to the night club
called Andres carne de res! I know the name is funny! but is a nice and famous
place, the party went on until 6 a.m. and here begins the horrible experience I
was telling you about! I don't remember anything for obvious reasons I guess
the alcohol was part of that reason but when I left the night club i lost my
friends I don't know how it happened or why but i did it! Somehow I decided to
go to the hotel but with a little of fear because I was in another country,
lost, drunk and afraid so my plan was to call an Uber but for my bad luck I
didn't have battery in my phone, so I started walking around and it end up in a
two hours walk until I found the hotel, but during those hours of walking I felt a person behind me and
everything happened so fast I didn’t even realized my reaction, the man ask me
if I had money with me and he show me a knife, obviously that was an assault
and I didn't have any other option but to give him my wallet with all my credit
cards and money! I had a bunch of feelings together like fear, anger, sadness
and impotency, because I couldn't do anything in that moment, and I
didn't know what to do if I should call a police man or fighting with the guy
or just run, but as I told you i took the unexpected easy way out.
If we want to make this story even
worst my friend Luis fernando told me about the insecurity in Colombia one day
before and what to do in a situation but I didn't give to much important about that
and I didn’t pay attention to him, so I said to myself that the next time i
promise to be more careful and never leave alone.
I decided to write my experience
because I wanted to show you all how dangerous can become a situation that seem
pretty normal, this things happen around the world and not only in Mexico, if
you have a trip coming up don't forget this experience, take care and never
ever loose your friends.
If
you were in a "difficult" situation like this how would you react?
