Imagen taken from respuestas.tips
We left very early in the morning on the way to the border, quite scared the truth because Walter (my traveling companion) had in his purse computer parts that could be confiscated for contraband (as they told us) and I had my canaimita (which is owned by the Government) but thank God we pass as if we were invisible, they did not check us, we presented the passport when entering Colombia and we were able to get to the stop (this way they tell you where are the exchange houses and the bus lines that you lead to parts of Colombia or other countries).
The first thing to seal the entrance to Colombia was to buy the ticket, since without it they do not stamp you. We remind ourselves of an agency that they recommended to us called "Omega". On the way we got an advisor from them and took us to the agency where we could recharge the cell phone that was released, rest from the weight of the suitcases and buy the phone line to communicate with Brian (the person waiting for us in Colombia ).
Imagen taken from omega.com.co
I left Walter with the suitcases and went to look for a house of change, I found one that caught my attention because of the logo he used (it was the Electronic Arts logo hahahaha) I came close to sell them $ 90 and they gave me almost 250,000 Colombian Pesos ( to 2770 Pesos X Dollar). With that money I bought water (if I could not stand it and I went to a supermarket to see all the brands and it was GUAO ...) and I bought (worth the redundancy) a Tigo line with 6000 Colombian Pesos, since there are 3000 for the line and 3000 for activate it The plans are not as in Venezuela that are monthly, here are daily, depending on the need of the person at the time of acquiring a service, that if you leave the whatapps and the free Facebook in those days.
The agency opened at 9:30 am, we attended first and bought the tickets (105,000 Colombian Pesos each), we kept the bags in that same agency at 2000 pesos each, but we paid when we returned, we ran to seal the entry; Due to past experience with the exit stamp, we did not want to delay since we had to be at the terminal at 1 pm to go to Bogotá.
But the scare was unnecessary because it was in less than 30 minutes and they did not ask us anything, well not to Walter, but it was to know what I was going to Bogotá. When we finished we looked for the suitcases and went to look for a cart by post to get to the terminal "Los Palitos" where is the other Omega agency that would check our passages. The problem was that the suitcases weighed a lot and the truck was going many people (by the way are 2000 pesos each to ride) then we decided to ride a taxi that charged us 15,000 pesos to the terminal, the taxi driver told us about the traffic laws , the security cameras that take pictures of the vehicles when they committed infractions and the FACES that are the infractions (up to 2,000,000 pesos for urinating in the street and for not having the safety belt put depending on the circumstances). When we arrived at the terminal the taxi driver waited for us to confirm if it was that terminal as there was another nearby (very kind of him); We checked and told us that our unit would arrive at 3:40 pm, we said goodbye to the taxi driver and we sat down to wait (it was 11 am).
At 1 we started to get hungry but we only had 12,000 pesos and 390 $ that we had not converted yet (certainly they do not believe that in the capital they pay more than at the border, it is LIE, changing everything on the border) I had to walk to see where we could eat, thank God a few meters sold very complete lunches (depending on the amount varies between 4,000 to 6,000 pesos). The agency was very kind in keeping our bags while we ate, we ordered two menus of 4,500 and we were full, they served us rice, chicken, pasta, salad, grains and soup. If we had bought the 6,000 pesos we were served the whole chicken hahahaha.
Take the opportunity to recharge the cell phone because my Blu cell phone released did not have whatapps or facebook, (Walter had Android but was not released) when calling the service * 111 # I got the options and bought a 50 minute service to call the next day to Brian (after a while I discovered that the plans are daily and I lost those copper jajajaja).
The unit arrived a little late, about 4 pm; We took the suitcases and they took us to the unit in order of seats (by the way the unit has a wiki, individual screens to watch movies, a bathroom and they give you the headphones).
Starting the trip I tried to connect to the wifi to post on Steemit but I could not, the wifi for some reason was not connected to my canaimita so I resigned to watch comedy movies. When arriving in Bucaramanga I began to get dizzy because of the number of curves on that road, Walter gave me a travel pill-san to prevent vomiting but the dizziness did not take it off, I had to sleep for a while so that it would pass When I woke up, the unit was damaged because a rubber was spied on (the inner morocho on the same side of the western express ... IS IT ENSERIOUS? TWICE?) The good thing is that they fixed it quickly and we were able to follow the course to Bogota. We were worried because we wanted to participate in a Magic event (a card game) that they will do at 1 pm and since Bogotá is great it would take a long time, the good thing was that we arrived at 9 am to the terminal (that pod if it is giant, just like an airport) Brian arrived at 10 am and we ran to change the money to pay a taxi but we could not (it was Sunday and Western Union was not buying) we negotiated with the taxi to pay him in dollars and he gave us the difference in pesos. We arrived at the house of Brian, we left the suitcases and we introduced ourselves with the family (I already knew them in advance) I set the clock of my cell phone to see the time (it was 10 am ... THE MAGIC EVENT !!) We went running to the transmilenio (which is like the metro but with buses, you can see there is NO METRO in Bogotá, they are hardly creating it).
Imagen taken from ido.com
It took us 2 hours to arrive and when we arrived (worth the redundancy) there was a queue outside because the event was free and they gave away things, I hoped to get with another friend there but it was not (in Bogotá there are 3 stores of Magic and each one makes different events. same days for competition, called Draco, Valhalla and Unlimited) as Unlimited and Draco had events that day I imagine it was to Draco and us to Unlimited.
We had to retire early because we wanted to see if we could change the dollars but we could not that day, we had to do it the next day.
Let's see how Colombia treats us on Monday that we do tourism ...
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