Posts and photos from Colombia

By Jack Brummet, S.A. Travel Ed.

Here are links to the posts--with mainly photographs--I made from Colombia last month (November, 2013).

Photos from the drive through Chicamaca Canyon
Random photos from Bogota
Police in Colombia
Faces No. 547 - Colombia
Police roadblocks in Colombia
Sand in my boots in Colombia
Fellow travellers in Colombia, November 2013
Photos from Cartagena: flower stall
Walls in Cartagena's Gethsemene neighborhood
Colombia photographs: boats along the Palomino/La Matuy beach
"Japanese" glass floats on the Caribbean
Witch Interrogation in Cartagena
Signs we saw in Colombia, Part 1
Signs we saw in Colombia, Part 2
Signs we saw in Colombia, Part 3
Photographs from our rooftop in San Gil, Colombia
Aviophobia/fear of flying part 7 - Poem: The trouble with flying
Meeting the Scouts in Bogota
The Botero Museum in Bogota
Photographs from Bogota's Museo del Oro
Some photos from Cardagena's walled old city

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Photographs from Bogota's Museo del Oro

By Jack Brummet, Precious Metals Ed.

Bogota's Museo del Oro contains more gold than all the other museums I've seen across the world put together.  Gold is so interlinked with the history and destiny of Colombia that it's inevitable they have this museum.  It ranges from fascinating to amusing.  

My love of museums most often focuses on those that contain paintings (portraits in particular, and sculptures), but this was a glorious exception.  Naturally, I was most fascinated with the faces and masks, but I also include some other pieces here.  Even a couple that are not made of gold, like the carved stone diorama immediately below:

click to enlarge

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The Botero Museum in Bogota

By Jack Brummet, SA Travel Ed.

The [Fernando] Botero Museum in Bogota is an excellent collection and introduction to this beloved Colombian's painting and sculpture. The building itself is a large old colonial mansion, and is gorgeous, spacious, and well-laid out.

In 2000, Botero donated 123 paintings, and sculptures to the museum, as well as 85 20th century pieces from his personal collection, including art by Chagall, Picasso, Renoir, Degas, Picasso, Miro, Rauschenberg, and several French impressionist works. Botero himself chose the building, decor, lighting and the arrangement of the works into galleries.

A Joan Miro canvas in the museum

Not at the museum - KeeKee and Senor Daveed in front of a Botero sculpture in Cartagena
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Signs we saw in Colombia, Part 3

By Jack Brummet, South American Travel Ed.

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Signs we saw in Colombia, Part 2

By Jack Brummet, South American Travel Ed.

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