alright hey y'all i thought i'd just do a video we haven't focused on this evening let's all wait for this rabbit to pass so this evening in bogota we have a curfew starting at about 10 p.m and there's
not really anything i do after 10 o'clock anyway so it won't affect me i could see for some people that are here this could be quite disconcerting i also understand for those who are thinking about coming here to
bogota that that could certainly have an impact in how they feel as far as having a different way of doing things than in the u.s i know some people are unhappy in the united states there's some people watching
this video and they want to try something different and lockdown aside colombia is quite different than united states but uh i wanted to do some more exploring and i guess this isn't really exploring i've already pretty much seen
what this neighborhood uh has top to bottom but uh even so oh we just take a look around maybe check out a different direction than you had seen me check out earlier and so here we're going south so
earlier we've walked north on this main thoroughfare so you might recognize that and in that instance i was heading from south to north and this instance i think i'm going to head from north to south and kind of
give a little bit different view of course a lot of things are closed not just because of the curfew but also just it's the weekend uh this district aside from being a popular tourist district uh certain parts of
it are really only going to be lively monday through friday and and more so during business hours i've walked this road a number of times and it seems like a lot of people uh mostly commuting so so a
lot of the traffic on this road seems to be a lot of commuters and while you'll see some on this road tonight it's not going to be bumper to bumper like it is usually in the mornings and the
afternoons on weekdays i guess i'll chime in and out kind of just as thoughts come up i figure we could do this walk and talk as long as the battery lasts or as long as my energy lasts i
think actually i was thinking this battery lasts around one hour but i'm mistaken i think this battery lasts roughly two hours the battery for the osmo pocket that is but here we are we're approaching the park that uh
oh no we're not know what i'm saying um i'm definitely not used to bogota like i am a medellin of course medellin being a smaller city kind of easier as far as not having to think about density in
fact in bogota some buildings look similar to other buildings and some entries to various streets look similar to various other entries to streets and also the city has a lot of green so sometimes you think you're at a
park or you're about to be in a park and there's just a lot of trees it's very beautiful i don't want to point that out like it's a bad thing certainly if i pulled out my phone and access
my maps i'd be headed to the park but since i've already shown everyone that i will check out a different direction and some of you also may recognize some of what you see from my building videos by building
video and i'd like to do a second building video and a second graffiti video here in bogota definitely a second building video um and uh i'll just be here for about 10 more days and i have a physics
test coming up so i have to account for my physics and my programming but i would like to get at least two solid filming days out of the next 10. i may be able to do it one but
it'll probably take two in the candelaria neighborhood and that's another popular neighborhood for uh travelers and they have what do they have they have a lot of cool buildings down there they have the traditional you may have seen
it's got a lot of college students in the neighborhood it's the old school bogota these kind of cobblestone streets but they also have a lot of graffiti there and that's really interesting i go back and forth on my
graffiti videos i know it's really interesting it's interesting to me too i recognize i'm probably going to bother some people at some point with some of my videos but i don't want locals to have the impression that i'm
going to come to their city and i just show off what some perceive to be negative perhaps i don't really think it's positive or negative uh necessarily i do think it's kind of got to be frustrating as a
business owner and i certainly don't encourage any kind of criminal activity like that but on the other hand some of what i capture is definitely legal some of it you can tell perhaps is even commissioned by a business
center they wanted to show off their coffee shop or perhaps their bicycle shop or whatever kind of business they have and this mural type of thing can really um really catch the attention of people walking by and people
driving by so i wouldn't call it all bad wouldn't call it all good i just want to show it for what it is and rather than doing kind of a tour style or talking about it uh leave it
for what it is and and let people uh watching come to the conclusions that they're going to come to when it comes to observing and certainly people have their preferences or people like different styles certain kinds of styles
or over others but i think that uh all these cities have talented artists and uh it's interesting i'm kind of curious uh something relevant i'm kind of curious what the smallest city or town in the world is that
has had some kind of street art or graffiti uh whether intentionally or unintentionally perhaps a metro of 100 000 people um if you know of any small cities definitely let me know down in the comments if uh if
one that has that sort of street art scene sticks out i've heard that it's popular throughout the americas certainly it's popular in the united states i've enjoyed a lot in the san francisco area certainly it's popular in latin
america a few other hot spots i'm familiar with berlin germany shibuya tokyo and berlin berlin germany i have a graffiti book somewhere it may be in storage but it shows a lot from all over the world it's really
cool to see i'll go ahead and say this now definitely follow all the local laws and rules i'd encourage any kind of criminal activity anywhere in the world but yeah as far as i know observing graffiti is not
a crime taking a video a picture of it is not a crime so hopefully if that changes someone will notify me or i'll find out in advance as you can see most people are staying in this evening not
a whole lot going on i noticed a number of restaurants are closed i'm not sure if it's a if they're required to close early through the curfew situation or if that's uh something that they've elected to do themselves
it's kind of it's sunset here in bogota bogota is the capital city of the country colombia i think it's um the official population actually is something like eight million but i spoke with a local who mentioned that due
to the crisis in venezuela it is more likely that the total population of bogota is more like 9 million because you have tons of people fleeing venezuela it's really a tragic situation and colombia and venezuela share a border
and uh naturally colombia is the largest economy um i'm not mistaken that sure is a well no i'm i'm i am mistaken actually brazil also has a border with venezuela but it's up there it's one of the options
that if someone is fleeing venezuela and they're looking for a place that is more stable with more opportunity then they are likely looking at brazil or colombia i have heard there are venezuelans the united states i haven't encountered
any venezuelans in the united states personally but i would imagine that that would also be a popular destination for people looking to get out of venezuela which is from what i understand a failed state the country cannot provide
basic things to its citizens and so yeah from my understanding a day's pay and average workers pay venezuela they'll earn enough money to buy say two eggs and uh that's definitely not enough for one person to live on
each day and it's really really sad do i think that i'll go there at some point it depends i'm not going to rule it out and i'm not going to say affirmatively that i will go if i do
go i will definitely have to line up a lot of things in advance obviously the visa is going to be the most important but i'd also be looking to hire various handlers people that are local to places like
caracas that they know their way around and they know safe ways to exchange money for example i've heard it's very very dangerous to exchange money in venezuela us dollars in particular uh because of the widespread poverty and so
it's not a uh it's not a destination i'm gonna go to on the drop of a hat let's put it that way and it's toward the back of the list just for common sense reasons i think that by
the time i get there i i'd like to have seen most of la of latin and south america so before i would go to a place like venezuela and of course this is a maybe this is this is
a hypothetical situation i have no plans and you know to do this but of course i've had to consider it because i'd like to visit most of the countries in the world so that would if it happens that
would come after brazil after chile after argentina after uruguay after panama guatemala honduras el salvador belize bolivia of course pedro is next after suriname after guyana after guyana probably after a number of caribbean islands as well aruba jamaica
bermuda a lot of these places this sounds bad just because if something happens to me there i'd like to have seen a lot of other stuff uh first i it's i don't mean to make light of the situation
i will warn you now i do have kind of a dark sense of humor for better for worse it helps me deal with things and that doesn't even get into the places i want to see in southeast asia
of course it was in laos vietnam indonesia even a place like brunei that's pretty small i'd like to go there what else besides those in southeast asia of course it's not in southeast asia but it's in the uh
broader uh it's the closest westernized country would be australia i'm in australia i'd like to go to australia and uh europe of course there's a lot of europe that i need to see first as well western europe eastern
europe and then um india india is the most important and above all these other countries because for those who don't know i am half indians so i do need to see india i have not been yet but that's
definitely a major priority of mine and uh yeah why don't we chat on the camera for a bit um so yeah i know that's a lot of places and i went off on a bit of a tangent there
but i'm really really looking forward to a lot of these travels and
