This Tuesday among the scheduled activities in the Spanish School Nueva Lengua he was bike tour, a bike ride through the most important streets of Bogota,.

Personally, I am not a bike lover, after several falls (the last one during a vacation in Tenerife, with a big bruise!), I had thought about not participating.

In the end, my French classmate, Loredana, convinced me to participate because "We are among us from school, we are going to enjoy ourselves a lot, please come, I assure you it will be super cool!" (we are among us at school, we will have a lot of fun, please come, I assure you that she will be very cool!).

And so, even though the weather wasn't looking good, I decided to overcome my fear and join the group!

As soon as they give us the bikes I get on and… now what do I do? Do I have to pedal? And how was it done? Weird, I forgot how to ride a bike!

Too late to return, Juan Camilo, our guide, is already mounted and pedaling fast towards Plaza Bolívar.

I take a deep breath, climb into the chair and slowly join the guide and the rest of the group.

in the huge Plaza Bolivar, where the Primate Cathedral, the Mayor's Office, the Congress of the Republic and the Casa el Nariño meet, it begins to rain, very hard! We take out the waterproof ponchos and the show continues pedaling down the Septima, a very long street that crosses the entire city, but in the section from Plaza Bolívar to 23 it is closed to traffic and we can pedal freely avoiding pedestrians!

Despite my terror in the downtown streets, I can more or less keep up with the group, thanks also to my companions, who stop every minute to see if I'm still behind them or if I'm already lost.

We pass in front of National Museum and the Plaza de Toros, where Yoga classes are taught today because the mayor of the city banned bullfights, considered too violent for a town in a peace process. The good example starts from the basics, another point in favor of security in Colombia!

Then we stop for an “ounce” or snack: some fruits and a chocolo arepa, and then resume pedaling towards the streets of the Teusaquillo district.

Here we find the Garbage Museum. A curious house where a Colombian artist lives who lived in Paris for 20 years. We meet the artist and enter his house, completely decorated with recycled objects and garbage. He is an amazing character, and his house makes me disgusted. I will not reveal other details, emotions and moods to you because you will have to live it to understand it!

The neighborhood is full of spectacular graffiti, reflecting moments of the city's social life and criticism of the system. The artists who pass through Bogotá leaving their mark on the walls of the city never cease to amaze me.

The next stop is at an artisanal coffee factory, in addition to seeing live how the coffee is produced and packaged, we sit down in the cafeteria to have one. I drink “the coffee of the gods”: espresso, condensed milk and cardamom, divine!

Then we pass through the neighborhood of Santa Fé, a popular neighborhood of the city, where I would never happen to go alone!

Nearby we stop at a gallery, a small neighborhood market where we taste very good Colombian fruits, including: lulo, tree tomato, pitaya and yacón. To understand what he is talking about, you will have to join the tour!