Monday, January 25, 2010

Mushi Mushi

Villa De Lleyva, a city about for hours from Bogota is famous for its magic mushrooms. After rainfall you can scout for them in the mountains.
Pieter, a friend that I met in Bogota, visited the place and came back with some.
On friday afternoon we met in the hostel with 4 other people that also wanted to try these mushrooms.
We made some tea from the mushrooms, drank it on the roof and decided to walk to the park some 40 minutes walk away.
Only after 10 minutes of leaving the house we started feeling the effect already, so when we passed the first park, we were eager to sit down and take our shoes off.
We sat together in the park, laughing, jumping, running, until the sun started to set down.
Two of the girls wanted to go to the bathroom somewhere, but it seemed such a mission in that frame of mind that it took them looong to make a decision.
The biggest building of Bogotá towered over our place where we were sitting (we already called it 'home') and the numerous toilets on all the floors of the building became the subject of the conversation. We formulated a vague plan to sneak to the top of the building and although nobody believed we would make it, we started walking towards it anyway.
At the bottom of the Colpatria Tower, we found some fast-food restaurants where we released ourselves from digested fluids.
The tower was of course a tourist attraction, being the tallest one, so we paid 3000 pesos, left our beers behind and took the elevator to the top.
As usual the top wasn't really the top. There was one floor more where helicopters (one at the time) could land.
Security wasn't too tight, so I climbed over the fence that secured the stairs and ended up all alone on the landing pad. The sight that was revealed to me was absolutely stunning.
Instead of the fences blocked view, I had a 360° view on Bogotá and for the first time I had an impression on the size of the city. As far as I could see, there where streets stretching out in all directions away from the mountains. Little later Pieter also joined me on the roof and when Holly also arrived, we smoked a joint on the roof and tried to convince the others to come up too. Apparently they were still too spaced out to do the climb.
Half an hour later, we went back down (security had discovered that we were up there by now) and joined again with the rest of the group. When we came out of the building, in 7th Avenue, the street was freed of cars and lots of artists were displaying their skills along the walk down.

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