Tunja, Colombia

Three hours south of Guadalupe, Colombia is the University town of Tunja (That´s Tune HA).

Tunja is a college town...said to be several in this busy city.  In fact just below our 4th floor AirBNB apartment in the Centro district is a green area with 4 cows.     I´m told they belong to the Veterinary school which seems reasonable since there also looks to be a milking barn in the field.



From Tunja we visited an "authentic small colonial town" highly rated by Lonely Planet.  I would call it an overrated tourist town with over expensive restaurants and junk shops.  If you want junk souveniers I suggest the "China Mall" here in Tunja.

Also did a day trip via public bus to Lago de Toto, which at 9,300 meters claims to be the highest lake in the world with a white sand beach.  I believe it.



  And in town the trout lunch for a little over $US 5 was worth it!  Enjoyed this town much more that Valley de Leyva in the above paragraph.  There may have been 4 or 5 our of country  visitors in town.  Everyone much friendlier and seemed less busy.

(More Pictures to come)

Two nights ago we happened on the Bolivar square where there was a demonstration going on. Don´t know what it was about, but a lot of banging of silverware on pots and pans.  Everyone seemed pretty happy to be there whatever it was about.

Our apartment doesn´t have WIFI so am using a three station internet rental at about $.30 per hour. But it does have DishTV so I can watch Bloomberg TV and BBC TV.  Not sure if that is good or bad.

In two days on to Bogota for a week at another AirBNB apartment.

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