La Candelaria and Plaza del Chorro de Quevedo

 After going to the two museums, we wandered around La Candelaria and took pictures by cool doors.

And we went to Plazoleta del Chorro Quevedo, where Bogotá was founded on August 6, 1538 by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, a Spanish conquistador.  

The Candelaria district is not all that nice anymore, but there's still some cool buildings.

Efraim wanted a photo by the mushrooms.

That's a replica of the oldest Catholic Church in Bogotá.  The original was considered too plain at one point and taken down.

The Plaza del Chorro is a little touristy plaza with lots of street performers, tourists and stalls selling jewelry and souvenirs.

That's the plaque on the little white building/cafe above.

The fountain's water is usually colored blue, you know, for tourists.

I love this photo.

You see this a lot, where construction scaffolding is made from bamboo.  

We also went to the main plaza, Plaza Bolivar and the main cathedral was open so we toured through, or well me and Elena did. 

The white sepulcher is where Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada is buried. 

The organ is pretty cool.

And then we had some yummy obleas.

And hot dogs.

Traje de Colombia (Folkwear and Indigenous Clothing from Colombia)

So this is just oodles of clothing photos.  I think it's interesting but I doubt anyone else will.   I've looked for information like this before about Colombia, and could never find anything, even when I tried searching in Spanish on other platforms.  So while I didn't take a photo of EVERY outfit at the museum, I did take quite a few.   I did try to take photos of the information, somewhat because I wanted to figure out what they said when I had more time and better Spanish translators at my disposal.   My kids certainly were only patient enough for me to snap photos let alone read things in a language I can barely stumble through. But to start off, here's a lot of the indigenous clothing.  I'm really curious about how much the above styles were influenced by Europeans and vice versa, but I don't think there was anything explaining more details.

I love the feathers.  

So fascinating and gorgeous cloth!!!

Afro clothing due to all the slave trade.

 

And then there is oodles of regional folkwear costumes. 

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This is one of the outfits I've seen a lot.  Although, it's really a dress for Cumbia dancing, and so it's used all over now, but it started on the Caribbean coast.

This one I recognize too.

If you haven't noticed, I like embroidered details.

Aw, another outfit I've very familiar with.  I have an adorable photo of my husband dressed up like this when he's like 6 or 7 years old.  So cute!

The famous Colombian hats, sombreros vueltiao.

And mochilas.  

I love the drama of these outfits.  And notice how Jubal--my 9 yr old, is almost as tall as the man who wore this suit.

This was more an everyday outfit for the average bogotaño male back in the 1600-1800s.  Ruanas are timeless.

I love the boldness of this dress.  So fun!