OK... First tourist stop on the tour of Bogota is, of course, a giant underground cathedral north of town carved out of a salt mine. Really. I am confident that Bogota can boast the Largest Underground Salt Mine Cathedral in the world. The thing was built early in the century when the miners figured that it (the cathedral) would save them (the miners) from earthquakes and such. Why not? Anyway, we went, we saw, we walked around underground looking at lots of religious stuff carved out of salt. My fellow bald man Henry kept asking questions along the lines of..."So, have their been any earthquakes lately?", "Did anyone die?", "Really? What are the chances of poison gas killing anyone today?"...which seemed to put many of the other tourists on the fast track out of the salt mines.
My favorite feature of the salt mine was the bronze salt miner statue outside the entrance who has a expression of pain and anger, due, no doubt to the fact that his bonze dingus has been nearly completely eaten away by the salt. And, as modern science has already proved, no amount of time in a giant underground salt cathedral can replace a man's dingus.
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