My first couchsurfing host, Juan, lives in a very spacious, 2-etage open loft in a big secured building complex that you can't enter without passing a locked gate with two private security guards.
You could say I feel safe there, lol!
It's not that easy to get up to the apartment though because, again, the two guards don't speak a word of English. So I'm trying with hands and feet again until one of them guides me up to Juan's place and drops me off there. I'm not sure what exactly they say but they seem to laugh an oddly lot while I keep trying to explain I'm a "guesto" of Juan's.
Anyways, I'm finally there, Juan gives me a nice welcome with my first can of Colombian beer. Not even bad, for sure better than American beer. His snow-white dog Oyuki also comes running right towards me and tries to tackle me.
As Juan shows me around and shows me where everything is, I realize that this is propably the nicest place I have ever stayed at, hahaha! Open gallery, jacuzzi in the bathroom, awesome!!
Juan tells me there are three more couchsurfers staying here, which are out right now, but I will meet them tomorrow.
I'm surprised how many people he is willing to host here almost permanently, so I ask him what the background to all this is because I don't think many people would, especially not with a place as nice as his. He tells me that he traveled a lot when he was still a student, so he knows what it is like and wants to share what he has got now. Very nice!
Also he tells me that his family owns another couple of apartments in the city which they offer to underprivileged youths from poorer areas in Colombia for free, so they have a chance to get a good school education in the city. Fascinating, huh? I think so!
I just keep on chatting with Juan a little bit more and then head off to the futton that he prepared for me on the gallery because I feel really beat from the flight and everything.
Later on, I will find out that I kept all of the other three couchsurfers (two of them sleeping behind another closed door!) and Juan up all night snorring, lol! I got a cold as soon as I got of the plane in Bogota that I would keep for almost another week, waking up several other backpackers and hosts for another week, hahahah!!
But before hearing about that, I woke up in the morning with this nice little view on Bogota...
Keine Kommentare:
Kommentar veröffentlichen