Activities to do in Bogotá

Parks and recreation: 

In Bogotá there are many parks, many with facilities for concerts, plays, movies, storytellers and other activities.

•"Simón Bolívar Metropolitan Park" is a large park regularly used to stage free concerts as the annual Rock al Parque.Kites are flown in the park.

•The National public  Park has many trees and green spaces, ponds, games for children, foot and bicycle paths, and venues for entertainment such as public screenings of movies and concerts and events organized by the Council of Bogotá. It is located between two main streets, the Circunvalar Avenue and the 7th Avenue.

•The Bogotá Botanical Garden 

•The Children's Museum of Bogotá is a science, technology and art interactive museum specializing in children and youngsters ages 2 to 19.

 •"Parque de la 93" is located between 93rd and 93Ath street, and 12th and 13th avenue, and has day-time leisure activities and nightlife. Several of the top restaurants and bars in the city are in this park.

•There are restaurants and bars in the vicinity of a T-shaped pedestrian strip dubbed "La T" (The T) at the corner of 82nd street and Cra.12. More recently, restaurant activity has begun in the "Zona G" (Gourmet Zone) in and around 67th and 70th Streets and other locations including Usaquen in the north-east and La Macarena (downtown).

•Mundo Aventura is an amusement park, with an entry charge and charges for the different attractions. It has rides for adults and children, a petting zoo, and the "cerdodromo", where pigs race.

•"Salitre Mágico" is another amusement park with rides and attractions. The park is near the Simón Bolívar park, where concerts are held throughout the year.

•Parque del Chicó has trees, gardens, artificial creeks and ponds, and a colonial style house converted into a museum.

•To the north Parque Jaime Duque has rides, a giant map of Colombia, popular exhibits, a zoo, and a big hand holding the world symbolizing God. There is a reproduction of the Taj Mahal in the park with a collection of reproductions of famous paintings. The park is also used for large concerts, mainly electronic music ones.

•Maloka is an interactive museum of sciences.

Tourist train is a sightseeing train, popular with Bogotá residents, which runs to outlying towns Zipaquirá, Cajicá and Nemocón along the lines of the former Bogotá Savannah Railway on weekends. The route to Zipaquirá (famous for its salt cathedral) is 53 km long. Another line goes towards the north for 47 km and ends at Briceño.

Shopping malls

•  Centro Andino, an exclusive Mall located near the T zone in Northern Bogotá

•  Centro Mayor (the largest mall in the country)

•  Atlantis Plaza

•  Centro Andino

•  Centro Mayor (the largest mall in the country)

•  Diverplaza Álamos

•  El Retiro Mall

•  Plaza Imperial

•  Hacienda Santa Barbara

•  Gran Estación

•  Hayuelos

•  Palatino

•  Bulevar

•  Portal de la 80

•  Salitre Plaza

•  Santafé (the second largest mall in the country)

•  Tintal Plaza

•  Unicentro

•  Plaza de las Américas

•  Cedritos