bogota!

i'm only two days into my trip (technically it's the first day, since i spent the other one at the mexico city airport) and i'm already feeling pooped! it better be the altitude, because otherwise it's not going to be fun! well, bogota lies at about 2600 meters above sea level, it's chaotic, noisy and very polluted...you can feel stuff down your lungs as you walk around! there are a lot of bikes everywhere, risking their lives among the many other kinds of vehicles that take over the city streets...the arrival at the airport reminded me of one of the take that's tours back in the day, where hoards of screaming, jumping and chanting people holding signs were waiting behind the barriers...trying to find my way out of that was an experience! and once outside the airport, the colombian reality hits you...i've been enjoying riding the TransMilenio today, this amazing public work that was supposed to be a metro system, and instead is a "fast" bus system that rides in the middle of the street...well it's more complicated than that, but oh well...
i was secretly hoping bogota would blow me away for some reason, and it hasn't yet, and it probably won't i assume...it's a nice place with a historic/colonial city center and lots of people everywhere, and yes, i haven't experienced its nightlife, yet it pains me to say it's not unbelievably spectacular...which is fine! haha
i'm headed to cucuta tonight, a border town with venezuela...