Beyond the cocktail: The vicheries, chicherías and other indigenous spaces have roots in Bogotá
In recent times, Bogotá has set up its portfolio of gastronomic offer with the rise of vicheries and other indigenous spaces of enjoyment, where drink, music, gastronomy and Afro, indigenous and peasant cultural roots are mixed.
Local and tourist people who want to live a truly Colombian experience must visit The Pacific Vicheria, La Chichería Demente, Hanna Hops and Thus Dances Colombia. Spaces that connect with the country's past and identity.
From the Pacific viche to the chirrinchi wayuu, through traditional kitchens and sports and artistic proposals. The spaces we recommend offer not only a sensory experience, but also memory, identity and narrative of territory. Beyond friendly and innovative commercial premises, La Vichería Pacípico, La Chichería Demente, Hanna Hops and Thus dances Colombia are places of encounter, emotional connection, living tourism and national pride.
The Pacific Vicheria: where tradition is served in cups
Also known as Curandera Vichería and located on 74th Street with a 20-year-old career in the heart of the Creative District of San Felipe, it is a cultural and gastronomic space that recovers the ancestral tradition of the viche, an ancestral drink of the Colombian Pacific. There they reignite it as a symbol of resistance, identity, memory and local economy and offer a sensory experience with the flavors of this exquisite drink.
The Vicheria is a laboratory of knowledge, a platform of visualization of the Afro-descendant culture. This tourist experience proposes a sensory, historical and cultural journey that allows us to understand the true dimension of this ancient distillate of the inhabitants of the Colombian Pacific as part of their daily rituals, knowledge and practices.
Through a carefully structured narrative, experience manages to connect the tourist with the essence of the viche: a drink prepared with sugar cane, tropical fruits and aromatic herbs, which transcends the gastronomic to become a symbol of identity, traditional medicine, living memory and spiritual link to the territory.
If you are interested in more information, visit The Pacific Vicheria in their social media.
La Chichería Demente: an intoxicating journey for the ancestral memory of Bogotá
This unique space in Bogotá, located on the 64th Street with a 15-year-old career, and where Colombia is not only in view of the decorated patrician that evokes the imagination of popular Bogotá, rescues the Andean tradition of the chicha and makes it a contemporary, alternative and deeply local cultural experience. Known in the past as: "Low-category establishment in which alcoholic beverages are served and sold ", the Chicheria Demente is not conceived as a place to drink, but as a alternative cultural destination in capital tourism.
In the heart of Bogotá, this space recovers the chicha, that ancestral drink of the peoples of the Andes, reinterpreted with creativity, identity and rebellion.
The proposal goes beyond the tasting of four varieties of artisan chicha, each from local producers located in different neighborhoods of the city. It also offers a feast with selected and mature meats. It is all about showing how tourism, history, gastronomy and art merge into one place, making La Chichería Demente a must stop for those who seek another face of Bogotá, away from conventional tourism and full of indigenous taste.
If you are interested in more information, visit La Chichería Demente in their social media
Hanna Hops: beer, community and liquid culture in the heart of the city
This brewery project, with one of its premises in the 6 race with 119 Street in Usaquén, has achieved much more than selling artisan beer: it has created a community, a meeting point for the urban culture and a space of alternative tourism in Bogotá where that drink is just the beginning of the trip.
This gastropub, with a carefully cured aesthetics, generates a pleasant and "unstoppable" atmosphere, a local beer card and a bet on the gastronomy, music and independent design; it is a reference of the conscious enjoyment, the consumption of artisan beer and the rebirth of the local in the capital scene.
Dedicated to those who do not think of the rules and let themselves be taken by their desire to eat the world, Hanna Hops - whose name refers to the female figure - is a space where labels only exist in the cans, where hosts are united to be dream artisans. And so that through unusual and creative cocktails with malted and hops barley, this establishment seeks to bring people together and enjoy regardless of their language or provenance
If you are interested in more information, visit Hanna Hops in their social media
This is how Colombia dances: an experience that puts Bogotá to the rhythm of the country
Considered as a proposal that makes folklore dance a tool of emotional connection, life tourism and national pride, in this way Colombia does not only show dances typical of the regions of the country, but visitors they live in their own fleshThey dance, learn, get excited and discover Colombian cultural wealth through the body and rhythm.
Under the supervision of Go Entertainment S.A.S., a company that has positioned itself in Bogotá as a a reference to innovative tourism and cultural experiences, and which offers a diverse rumba full of particular stories, it connects to locals and visitors with an atmosphere of vibrant and living city.
In this imperative rumba on 25th Street with a career 36, in Teusaquillo, with its particular Sunday party, called "Super Bailable Sunday," or what the Colombians know colloquially as "Old Library," they turn on tornamesas, they learn from music with a tour of the "Fame Wall of the Bogotano Dance," they dust old acetate and they sing the traditional of the parties of the past.
As the afternoon goes by, we discover the emblematic drinks of our festivities, such as the spirit and the classic 'Carajillo', a comforting cocktail based on coffee, and so, among salsa music, merengues, vallenatos and one of the other "guapachosa" songs, dance and dance are transformed into immersive cultural experiences, real and with strong local roots.
If you are interested in more information, visit So Dance Colombia in their social media
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