we're Alejo and andrea and we normally live on our sailboat hakuna
after taking a long needed break with our families in miami
we decided to head to our home country for a few weeks before heading back to the beautiful caribbean
did you love alpinito?
this is a short series
welcome to colombia
hakuna matata it means no worries
so where are we right now baby
we are in bogota
Bogota
so guys we have made it to bogota and we are in la candelaria
which is where bogota was started
this is where all the historic areas of bogota are at and
baby what do you think about Bogota? this is your first time here
first time here and yeah i mean it's pretty nice i thought it was gonna be ugly and cold and rainy but
he's from medellin so it's like the second largest city of colombia and he had never been to bogota which is the capital
because there's some kind of like rivalry between Bogota and Medellin
so um the traffic's a little heavy but it has always been like that
but aside from that it's pretty good the food is good we have been to a lot of good restaurants
and we will take you in the next couple of days
so let me show you guys
so this is a typical casita colombiana which is the one that you find in in the area where the coffee grows
which is the um la zona cafetera
the coffee and so it's very cute you have like they're very colorful you can see them in different colors made of from wood
this is a little sweet made from coffee because you know we are the country of coffee
and there's so much culture in colombia these are like the typical dresses that they do
for like typical dances but depending on the region
the dresses change the music changes the food changes the costumes like everything changes so much
so two more things the first one is that this is the typical hat from colombia which is the sombrero volteado
it comes from the coast
and a lot of you guys don't know but colombia is colombia not columbia now with the u but with that o colombia
we are in the downtown of bogota
this is where bogota started, it is not the prettiest area of Bogota
but it is where all the history of colombia, this is where it's at so what you see right there that
is the supreme court of bogota and in 1985 there was an attack on the supreme court from the guerrilla
the m14 and they just took over with the help of pablo escobar, they took over the entire supreme court and
they destroyed all the files from the terrorists and it was like this big huge massive attack
and that is the museum which is "la casa del florero de llorente"
the story is it's just like a flower base which it was the reason or the excuse of why the independence of colombia took place
this is the cathedral of bogota this is the most important cathedral as you know most of colombia is catholic and this
is the most important cathedral in the entire i think the entire country then you have over there
that is the oldest school of bogota and behind it is "el palacio de nariño" which is where the president sits like the white house
of colombia there is the congress that's where the congress is at so everything is here in the
downtown again this is not the prettiest area of bogota, this is just the most historical areas
so we just went inside the cathedral and you guys saw how beautiful it was inside and also
one of the typical things that we do here in colombia um when it's christmas we do a
nativity just like it represents the little town where jesus was born
is like it just
represents everything it has like the it has virgin mary it has um jesus it has jose
it has like all the little like everyone that was present during the birth of jesus
we're gonna go in a museum where we're gonna show you guys the typical costumes the dresses
that they would use to wear to do the dances they still wear them just to do like typical
dances for like our cultural events
a typical dress from the pacific coast what they wear which is the women from choco
this is typical clothing from an arriero antioqueño, which is the area where alejo is from
this is what men typically wear
here's what women of the same region wear
this is again, this is very typical you know it's not like what we wear nowadays but this
is what they used to wear and what they wear when they're going to do typical dances or something
more like events that are more cultural
this one are the chapoleras which are also from antioquia these are the women that pick up the coffee
yeah the people from the coast this is what they were wearing the atlantic coast again the same as the women when they
were dancing doing their dances on the coast
when i showed you guys the mochilas inside which are like the bags and also the hats
everything here is made by hand, a lot of that culture comes from the indigenous people
and everything is made by hand just like this they make in the in the atlantic coast
where it's la guajira, they make this huge amacas all made by hand
so colombia was all native people right like indigenous people
and then this is the room of the indigenous people and then we're going to go to the other room
which is where the spanish people who colonize colombia
and then how that transforms into a mixture of indigenous people,
the spanish people and the african-american people that came as slaves with the spanish
and how that is now who we are
but our culture of colombia
so one of the reasons why the indigenous people have disappeared so much
you can see the difference of the girl before she was like
they have been pushed away from their families pushed away from their areas
by the guerrilla which is like a terrorist or
like the terrorist group here in colombia and they have to just leave their culture and leave their
like leave behind their families and just become like us people that are typical like more urban
we are in monserrate and what monserrate is
is like the top of the mountain it's like um a little church a little church yeah that's at
the summit of the mountain of the of like the hills it's really big and you can go
up walking which people do to exercise but they take them like a really long time like
two hours or something if they're really good at taking that hour but we're gonna go by
cable car
all the way to monserrate which is 3200 meters that is 10 500 feet up
you can see like about 20 percent of the city
tell us about today
so we are here at el tambor
it's near near la calera so it's outside of the city of bogota
we're gonna have a little lunch or a little snack, i don't know
we're just taking the dogs out
so la calera is on the outside of bogota, on the north east side of bogota
you go up like a little mountain and you can see how beautiful the view is you can almost see the whole view of bogota
so alejo is having a good beer with my dad
we are going to show you guys the typical colombian food some typical
the arepas what they look like i wish we could tell you what they taste like but it's hard
one of the best things about colombia is all the fruits that we have
so we got this is papa criolla corn guacamole they have the potatos, plantains
and that is arepa
this is embuelto
and this is the desert, this is called an oblea
and these are fresas con crema which are just strawberries with cream like sweets and sugar
this has blackberry and it has arequipe, which is like a sweet milk it's kind of like dulce de leche
so this is what this has
and the strawberries with cream it's like cream
like a delicious super sweet milk with strawberries
baby where are we right now
Alpina factory
and what is alpina
Alpina is like Nestle
yeah like the Nestle of colombia
yeah so they have everything from candies to sweets, to yogurts
to what else a lot of things
a lot of delicious things
and we are in sopo, colombia this is right on the outside of bogota
and as alejo just mentioned they make a little bit of everything you can see over there the yogurt
um we can test like all the sweets everything that they do will take you guys through the factory and
through like all the things that you can purchase
you can see here they make everything from cheeses
they make milk chocolate milk
what is that babe?
chocolate milk
this guy is always telling me that i had no childhood
why are you always telling me that i had no childhood
because you had no childhood
because my parents weren't giving me this when i was little all the time
i was having healthier things while Alejo was eating ice cream and sweets and all the you know bad
stuff that you should be eating i was eating the healthy stuff
arequipe is one of the most famous
kind of sweets and like a typical sweet from here in colombia and a lot of things contain
arequipe and keep it is like a dulce de leche but it's just like typical from colombia
baby en medellin hay alpina
wait why is this so important to you baby tell me
this is what children eat in colombia
what you ate when you were living on colombia
no what children eat when they're were growing up
did you love alpinito
today we are in chia it is on the outside of bogota and we're doing a hike, it's a one-hour hike around nature
we are with the pups we are with an additional puppy
you can see echo behind us, echo has to be on a leash because she's a little more feisty than ozzy today
one of the best things about colombia is the nature
so we're a little bit more tired than usual because of the altitude we are at 2 900 meters above sea level
and you feel it so you can see right there that city over there that town well it's a
city it's not a town um that's chia it's a little city or town on the outside of bogota
what's up people so we are here in zipaquira it's like a church
made of salt so it's called cathedral de sal so it's like a cathedral of salt
we have to put the dogs in little carts apparently the salt is bad for the dog's paws
and so that's why we have to put them in little carts and we're heading there right now
good boy
so what's special about the zipaquira cathedral is that everything is made of salt
and what the miners did here is that they did a little bit of the viacruzes which is the steps
that jesus christ took to go to the cross and that is the steps that you can see here
so this represents all the miners that worked here to build the cathedral of zipaquira