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With civil conflict easing, and the cultural, culinary and nightlife scenes sexed up, Bogotá is emerging as an attractive destination for the first time in decades. Located nearly two miles high in the verdant Andes, the Colombian capital may be shrouded by balmy mountain mists, but it's shaking off a long period of isolation to reveal a sophisticated tableau of art, architecture and action. Cartagena - the UNESCO-lauded seafront town an hour's flight north of Bogotá - used to be the only place visited by many of Colombia's 2 million annual tourists. But Bogot...
...Goldwork, of course, is Colombia's real forte, and this is dramatically on display in the heart of Bogotá's downtown at the Museo del Oro, tel: (57-1) 343 2221. It reopened last fall following a 10-year renovation. Drenched in sunlight and sprawling over a quartet of gallery-filled floors, the Museo includes 6,500 gold and ceramic pieces - many more than 2,000 years old. (See more about Colombia...
...Afternoon is the best time to take in the views from the Cerro de Monserrate, www.cerromonserrate.com, the church and monastery perched above Bogotá at 10,200 ft. (3,100 m) and surrounded by fragrant eucalyptus. Ascend the forested hills via cable car or join the throngs of pilgrims who brave the hike by foot every Sunday morning...
...Sting and Tori Amos have admitted sampling it in Latin America, where it is legal, as has Paul Simon, who chronicled the experience in his song "Spirit Voices." "It heals the body and the spirit," says Eustacio Payaguaje, 51, a Cofán Indian shaman who regularly treks to Bogotá to lead weekend ayahuasca ceremonies in the city. "It is medicine for the soul." (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...sludgy brown liquid usually leads to a violent purge from both ends of the body. Beat Generation novelist William Burroughs, seeking to get high on Colombian ayahuasca in the early 1960s, described hurling himself against a tree and barfing six times. At a recent ceremony on the outskirts of Bogotá, most of the 40 participants packed sleeping bags, water bottles - and rolls of toilet paper. Sting, in a Rolling Stone interview, made clear that ayahuasca is no party drug. "There's a certain amount of dread attached to taking it," the singer said. "You have a hallucinogenic trip that...