LIBRARIES

"Julio Mario Santo Domingo"

Date of visit: August 26 2012

Hour: 4:30

The library is located in Bogota Colombia on the:  Avenue street 170 No. 67-51 this library opened on May 26, 2010.

Zonal Park located in San Jose, Bavaria is surrounded by a park. This is a project made by Mayor of Bogotá, the Department of Culture, Recreation and Sport and the Ministry of Education of the District. This library also has a capacity of 150 thousand books

The designer of this library was Daniel Bermudez

This library has:

-For kids is a special section for reading is named the “bebeteca”

-    -A special section for adults and teenager for relax and read the books of each interest.

-    -Internet and multimedia room

-    -Have 340 underground parking spaces and 140 cycle parking

     -The Transmilenio SA was managed with the purpose of have a easy way to arrive to the library so they create a new route named “portales del norte”  

Another great place in the Julio Mario Santo Domingo is the theater. In this place are great shows like concerts and different big performances

- Have 3 levels

- It has a capacity for 1,300 spectators

- have five dressing rooms and locker rooms

-Capacity for 75 musicians

Studio Theater

This theater is smaller and is used continuously for smaller concerts or presentations or exposition room. This studio has a great possibility of scenery

- Retractable seats 208

-It has a capacity for 340 people

-Diversity viewer’s locations

SPORTS

Bogota has many places to practice or watch Sports, like Estadion Nemesio Camacho El Campin, Coliseo Cubierto el Campin And some sport clubs like club el Carmen.

Practicing sports is healthy And fun. around bogota there are places where you can Practice your favorite sport at diferent prices.

Expensive places are mostly like for watching like El Campin. Payless places in any neighborhood you can go jogging in the park, or go to the bycicle roads around the city and cheap or normal price places that are many around the city like, club el Carmen, Club la montaña, Colsusidio or Compensar.

In those places you can practice many sports as there are many courts and trainers. There you pay For entering or you can rent the court. 

I visited "Estadio Nemesio Camacho el Campin", it is a place for watching Socer matches or sometimes concerts.
it was inagured the 10 of august 1938 with a initial capaciti of 10.000 spectators.
in this stadium plays SantaFe and Millonarios who have won 13 and 7 times in the colombian leage and for frienly matches and other cups and leagues. 

To go to the stadium you need to be at least 8 years old, but is fun to go and watch you favorite team win ( or lose) going to the stadium is fun and more when you go with your family and friends, i enyoed the experience of going to the stadium and i really recomend you to go.

THEME PARK

Saltire Marico is a theme park located in Bogota, Colombia, currently has 30 rides such as roller coasters, bumper cars and the renowned "Castle of Terror" which features 24 sceneries that cause chilling sensation of fear, anxiety and terror. It is one of the major theme parks and more tradition places between World Adventure Park and Cici Aqua Park Water Park.

Salitre Magico has a total of 30 attractions. 10 high impact, 15 children and 5 families, which are:

-High Impact

-Children

-Family

In Bogota are more thematic parks for example Mundo Aventura and Cici Aqua Park. Mundo Aventura is the same theme is a park that have attractions the only difference in Cici aqua park this park is the only water park that are in Bogota in this park they have many water slides to have fun depends in your age and your mentality

Opened in 1973 under the name of El Salitre and located on Avenida 68 and Calle 63. It was then considered the most modern in Latin America. Later it was closed to the public in 1999, to undergo remodeling. It reopened in December 2000, with the name of Salitre Mágico, which provides electric games twenty-nine deployed throughout the park, as the Corkscrew roller coaster and Ferris wheel Milenium. The Salitre Mágico also provides water rides and other rides.

in conclusions if you want to pass a morning and afternoon like a children you have to go and have fun and to convert in a children you have to go if you want to have a very fun afternoon and if you want to throw out all that adrenaline you have to arrive the roller coasters and all the attractions.

RESTAURANTS

Colombias has one of the most delicious food in the world. The most typical meals are, bandeja paisa, ajiaco, changua, aprepa de chocolo, etc. Some of the best restaurants in which you can find this typical food are Sopas de la mama y posters de la abuela, Las Acacias, Andres DC and many others. And in Bogota you can always find international restaurants in which you can find everything, from Preruvian food to Japanese food. The best examples for this are restaurants are Criterion, Astrid y Gaston, Wok, etc. Also during the month of August every year in Bogota there is a festival called El alimentarte in which the best restaurants of Bogota go to El parque del Virrey and sell their food at a very nice and cheap prices. And for people who loves junk food they can find restaurants like Mc donalds, El corral, Pizza hut, Donde Beto. In Bogota there is always many places in which you can eat delicious dessert, form Colombia and other places on the world. In my opinion the best restaurant of desserts is Myriam Camhi, because you can eat the best colombian and internationals desserts ever. If you can't decide where to go, there are some specific places for you to choose from many restaurant, for example some of this places are Usaquen, la Zona G, la Zona T and el parque de la 93. As a conclusion Bogota is a city where you can eat all do you want, with the prices that do you want. So come to Bogota and enjoy the food.

USAQUEN

In Usaquen are many types of restaurants and not all are restaurants, there are also cafes and patisseries. Some of the restaurants are:

BISTRONOMY: this restaurant is a casual restaurant in Usaquen, it was created by two brother’s which their last name is Raush. This restaurant is of type bistro. The devoration is casual, not too luxury, not too informal.

MI CALLE: is a restaurant of Mexican food, the decoration is awesome: it have all the walls are paint, have a piñata, and many other Mexican things. In some nights mariachis go top lay some music.

14 INKAS: it is a restaurant of Peruvian food, it have two floors . all the plate are delicious and most of them have fish. The decoration is casual and beautiful but in the night looks better.

Other restaurants:

-        Estampa del chalan

-        La mar

-        Burger King

-        Crepes and waffles

-        Manacora

-        Mr. Ribs

-        Casa vieja santo pecado

-        Wok

-        La fragata giratoria

-        La bonga del zenu

BOGOTA

Bogota is the capital of Colombia, where we can find it all. This blog talk about the restaurants, the libraries, theme parks and other cultural activities that you can do in Bogota. You would always find typical aspects of the Colombian culture.