National holidays

Colombia has a fair amount of national holidays. Today was one of them. After doing some work in the morning in my apartment, I decided to go for a nice walk. I walked over to a long stretched park on Calle 88, where a lot of people hang out during weekends and festive days. This photo is at the end of the park towards the mountain range in the east (where my apartment is on Calle 72):

In this area of the town live a lot of "expats". On the photo a group of them enjoying a picnic with their little kids (see all the strollers). Others prefer to do work-outs in special areas of the park:

Good advice in the work-out area about your "corazon" (heart) and "estar en forma" (being fit).
On a day like this, there is a lot less traffic on the roads. Below a view of Carrera 18 towards the south. In the middle of the road is the special area for the "Millenium" bus system which criss-crosses the city from north to south with a few lines out west as well. During the work week these buses are almost as busy as the subways in Tokyo...

I walked then to "Parque 93" (at Calle 93), one of the night-life areas of the "Zona Rosa" with restaurants and bars just a few blocks from "Zona T" at Calle 82. Many weekends and national holidays there are events in this park, but today is was rather quiet, so I spoiled myself with a nice lunch (sorry for the food lovers... forgot to take a photo when the food arrived... to happy to attack it when it was served... chicken with lots of guacamole). After lunch a party bus circled the park:

You can't see it well on the photo, but this old style bus was full of people dancing......
I topped off the nice walk with my daily fix of great Colombian coffee:

Hasta la proxima; see you next time. Back to work.....