Knowing our way around - 4 April 2009

Now that we have been lost a few times in our walkabout adventures, we finally know 80% were all the roads lead to in the space of a few miles each. So we decide to go to the Park 93 and relax there for a while. Last time it took us over 25 minutes to find it and its a 5 minute walk jejejeje.

Before we head over to the park, we go to the exchange bureau as the Colombian pesos we have are running low. To exchange monies over here is not as easy as in Europe were no one questions were the money comes from. Here, you have to provide your ID card, your profession, address, contact numbers, give reason from were you got the money and even provide a fingerprint before you can get your hands on any Colombian Pesos. The attendants always look very suspicious making you feel rather worried and inspects every single note you give him. I remember the same thing happened last year.

At the end of the day they are doing there job and quite frankly they are doing it correctly over here in Colombia to stop money laundering or people exchanging money which they have stolen from foreigners.

Anyways interesting fact out of the way I change dollars but notice that the Euro rate is much better and it's good that I also brought Euros, so I'll be changing those instead next time around.