- Niki holds an interview via Skype
- Visit to the Bogota Gold Museum
- Short visit to the old town of La Candelaria
After we didn't sleep too well last night, let's take it easy. Niki prepares for her after breakfast job interview before and I use the time to mine Update blog. Then it is Niki's turn.
Then let's go to Plaza Simon Bolivar, which is surrounded by monumental, but not particularly beautiful buildings. Otherwise, the area is more like a chaotic construction site. Soon we will reach our real goal: that Museo del Oro - the Colombian gold museum.
The ultra-modern and - in contrast to Peruvian museums - inexpensive Museum poses countless finds of the most diverse pre-Columbian cultures in the country out. Most of them should be completely unknown to the normal citizen such as San Agustin, Tierradentro, Tolima, Calima, Tucamo, Nariño, Quimbaya, Zenú, Tairona, Muisca and Urabá y Chocó. Commonly best known are the mysterious ones San Agustin rock monoliths or the Tierradentro caves.
We explore the three-story building with its numerous exhibition halls, which are ultra-modern, but somehow not reach the quality of the Larco Museum in Lima. Not that the finds are less worth seeing or impressive, just everything is there Presented and staged even more stylishly.
The Filigree the goldwork, which is up to 5000 years old, always amazes us. For this, the goldsmiths used a method that was as simple as it was ingenious. The basic shape was created from clay and charcoal and then from easily malleable Beeswax surrounded to work out the details. The entire work of art was then surrounded by clay again. By filling the mold with liquid metal, the wax and the Figure was cast.
The stomach growls and we march to BlattSalatHaus, an innovative franchising that offers all sorts of healthy foods. After a cafe we go back to the hostel to plan something.
