Chapinero Alto in Pictures

Chapinero Alto is the urban-affluent section of Bogota. Alto means tall or high. I live in Chapinero near Plaza Lourdes, which sits at the same level 50 blocks north of downtown. Moving east past La Septima, the land starts climbing into the mountains. On these steep hills are built some of the most extravagant houses and apartment buildings in the country.

I almost moved into one of these buildings but it was all the way up on Circunvalar, as high in the mountains as the buildings go. The view overlooking the city was better than any of these pics and the unit was the same price as I’m paying now, but the walk to the grocery store was ~10 minutes and ~20 minutes to the TransMilenio. I prefer to be in the action. (See pics of Chapinero west of La Septima.)

Chapinero Alto is a bad-ass neighborhood nonetheless. I aspire to live there when I can afford taxis. Enjoy the pics.

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October 18, 2009 | Filed Under colombia 

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2 Responses to “Chapinero Alto in Pictures”

  1. Andrew Meyer on October 19th, 2009

    I love the fact that there are tennis courts. When I get sick of running the business and decide to run off to an exotic local and live a life of wanton debauchery, it’s important that there are tennis courts available.

  2. jan on October 24th, 2009

    Would be cool if you could use an api to show the images as a slideshow. Just would make things easier, especially since you have so many great images.

    Here is a sample one:
    http://www.phatfusion.net/slideshow/

    Anyway. It would be cool, thats all.

    Keep it up.

    Jan

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