04.2009 Colombian residuals

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No update from us for some time - been busy eating miles and "chewing through" all the collected experienc in our minds, obviously.

Before we head on to Central-America, let us give some insight to Colombia's capital, Bogota's gettho and how children live there:

Bogota's poor suburbs themselves look like this (click to enlarge panorama):


















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In those pipes they have drinking water flowing...



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The streets are abused by rain, rubbish, sun and winds.



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That cross aside the big tree in the hilltop means lot of people have hung themselves up there, ending their life due to poverty, drugs or alcohol, or other problems.



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This house is for sale. Interested?



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Kitchen in the house. Poor, but clean.



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A view to the street.



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Men playing cards.




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Some kids don't even have a table for doing their homework - she has to use a plastic chair as a substitute.



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A boy from a slightly better education programme (see his clothing).



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Children on the street.












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Bogota's ghetto gave us a reality-check, not every child has equal chances to start a civilized life...



We took a chance to visit Bogota's gold museum that had a decent set of made-from-gold fine crafts from the times well before Colombus discovered America. It's the art of the native american indians:

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For me the museum was superbly inspiring - the raw details in their art and their way of life. IMHO, to me it makes all the overhyped and over-refined European art look like a posers and show-offers art (at least to some level).


Meanwhile we were planning to leave for the Brazilian Amazon and Guyanas through Venezuela. For that reason I sent our Ohlins rear suspension to the Colombian official Ohlins dealer to be serviced - just in case, because it was supposed take a lot of abuse in Amazonian and Guyanan mud roads. So I sent them the shock and got it back, put it on, and off we go! We had a booking for attending a rocket launch in European Space Station in French Guyana, and the Amazon was waiting! Woohoo!

...yea right!?

...after less than 60 miles of smooth tarmac road riding - the freshly serviced Ohlins shock was leaking.

...arse.


That was it for the Amazonian loop - the only way to get a reliable shock was to send it to USA where there are REAL Ohlins specialists. To get it repaired we needed more than two weeks there-and-back time with post.

Thus our long planned Amazon plans went down the drain with wet season already starting - we were too late after we got the repaired shock back from the US (costed us crap loads of money to repair Colombian dealers errors indeed).

Had to mount it on:
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And Panama is our next step.
 


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