domingo, 28 de noviembre de 2010

Usaquen II








Have you ever heard of a location called Usaquen? Are you interested on visiting? Do you know all the malls, restaurants, cinemas, among others, you can find there? Have you ever heard of Unicentro, or “La Fontana”? Well, I live near this Location, and I always find what I am looking for. Unicentro is one of the oldest malls in Bogota. Unicentro is a new mall, since the changes it has being through, now it seems to be one of the newest malls in Bogota. It is really modern, and there are lights everywhere. In Usaquen, there are also many restaurants as Wok, Crepes and Waffles, Teriyaki, Papa John’s, among others.








I visited this location with my family. We walked through the neighborhoods. The weather was not helping as usual it was a dark place, and we had to take our umbrellas. We visited, Multicentro,  La Carolina, and other nighborhoods. Honestly one of my favorite malls is Unicentro so I went to this amazing mall. On the way, I found a street full of stores and restaurants. My mom loved one which is called “Tabata”, which is a store with exclusive dresses for girls. My mom told me she used to buy me dresses in that store when I was a baby. We were walking, when suddenly a car passed to fast that the water in the street went all over us. My dad got really mad. We got completely wet. That was really bad. I definitely hate when people do not care about others. We kept walking and enter to the mall. In front of Unicentro, is going to be a new mall, we saw the builders. The policeman checked our bags, before we entered to the mall. In front of Zara, there was a beautiful Santa, and his reindeers. All the decoration was based on the colors red, and silver. We had a great time, Unicentro is always full, it does not matter which day is it. When we finished visiting the mall, we went walking through the neighborhoods close, and we saw a big and beautiful hotel, called “La Fontana”.  I had visited that hotel, a couple times, and it is so nice, and big. I think it is one of the best hotels in Bogota.

I can tell, for my experience, that this location is perfect, it has everything you are looking for, besides that it is nice. A location, is too big and with so many things, in one day you are not able not see everything, but you can go to some specific places. Remember that this location is full of new and interesting things. Do not miss this opportunity! You are going to have fun!

Chapinero









My second visit to Locations was to Chapinero. I visited a place known as “Zona T”. I was really amazed, because I was not expecting all the things that I saw. I would like to tell you, my experience.  I had visited this location before, but I decided to take pictures just by the time if Christmas. I was beautiful. I went with my family, when we were arriving there was a car blocking the entrance to the “Zona T”, so we had to go walking. Unfortunately the weather by these days in Bogota, is horrible, and as usual it was raining. It took pictures, of some stores, like Bang & Olufsen, Bershka, Zara, and a restaurant called Andres DC. When I passed in front of Bang & Olufsen, I was shocked, because there was a TV, and it was so amazing, so big, and the design was beautiful.  








My favorite mall in this location is Andino. I loved it, and since I was 3 years old, I have visited this place. Anyway, I took pictures of the mall in front of Andino, called “El retiro”. When I entered to the mall, I found out that it was decorated really nice. It was decorated with the theme of a jungle. There was a leopard above the elevator; there were monkeys, birds, bears, among others. I took many pictures, for my surprise the monkeys moved and went up and down. The bear was really big, and all the kids were hugging him, and taking pictures with him. I kept walking and there was another decoration with the theme of the marine. There were marines, and also whales. Then we walked through the “Zona T”, it was full of white lights. We were hungry, so we had a meal in a cafeteria called “Michell”, it was delicious and we eat great things. It was seven o’clock, and we heard a lot bunch of people laughing, and screaming, so we went to see what was happening. When we arrived to “Zona T” there were some machines that were making the effect of snow. Everyone was taking pictures, and enjoying the “snow”.






I had a great time, and I loved this location. It is really modern, and it has all the most amazing shops in Bogota. It’s a great place for shopping, and also for having fun. I extremely recommend you to go with family and friends, and relax, forget about all your worries. 









jueves, 25 de noviembre de 2010

Craftsmanship and Hernan Diaz pictures





































I went with my father downtown to see an exposition of pictures at the museum of modern art taken by one of the best Colombian photographers. His name was Hernan Diaz who died about two years ago. He was considered one of the best portrait photographers of the 20th century.

He was the photographer of lots of president’s artists, politicians and very important people of this country. We saw portraits of young Botero, President Misael Pastrana, a nude picture of Fanny Mickey, actors like Franck Ramirez and many other important characters. Another very important part of his work are the portraits he made in Cartagena of common people in the streets and at the beaches.

The same day we wanted to take some colorful pictures that contrasted with the black and white pictures we saw at the museum. We went to the craftsmanship fair to take some photographs of people selling lots of colorful things, like leather bags, ceramics cheap jewelry and many other things. When we were going back  to my dad’s house at night we passed by the hair salon “Norberto” at the 109 street and took some pictures of the amazing x-mas decoration.