Bogota, Colombia

Bogota is nothing like I have imagined.

Bogota turns out to be just like any major metropolitan city. There are tall skyscrappers, men and women dressed in nice suits, the city is pretty clean, the residential areas are nice, there are many luxurious aparment complexes and western malls (selling stuff like D&G), and there are many street vendors like in NYC. If someone drop me off here and tell me this is a US city, I´d believe them (aside from the fact that everyone speaks Spanish and there are no Asian).

Colombian are tall and look European. Since there are very few Asian here, we became an attraction for the Colombians. Everyone stare at us as we walked by, little kids come up to us and want to take pictures with us, teenager boys try to flirt with us and want our numbers(no, we didn´t gave it to them).... It was an interesting experience; I´d imagine this is probably pretty similar to what my tall white friends felt when they visited remote areas in Asia.

Majority of tourists here are from nearby Latin America countries. If you don´t speak Spanish here, you are screw. I don´t speak Spanish, luckily I´m traveling with a native Spanish speaker. Everyone here are very friendly and very helpful to us, even though we stuck out like a sore thumbs.

So far, Colombia is great.