Lazy Sunday

Here are some more pictures from the Salt Cathedral and Zipaquira. The picture above is sideways and I can't turn it so you'll have to turn your head. It is the baptismal fount and behind it is a wall of salt crystals that look like a flowing waterfall. it is being formed by water leaking down from the surface and redepositing disolved salt.
This is a picture of one of the big iron kettles at he resturant where they boil the potatoes in brine. There are six of these kettles with a big coal fired oven beneith. The water is so salty that there is a crust of salt on the surface. The potatoes in the basket to the left are done and have a crust of salt on them, and the mound to the right is salt that has been formed like building a sand castle when they drain the potatoes as they remove them. They are quite tasty.
This is across the square from the Catholic church it is either the Episcopal church or the municiple palace. I don't remember from the tour guide anymore.
Another shot of the square. These building all have touristy shops in them selling everything from handmade arts and crafts to Itailian luggage.
I continue to recover from whatever resperatory infection I had. We went for a long walk today because they close many of the street to cars so people can bicycle or rollerblade for exercise. The really serious do a circular tour of the entire city which would be quite a few miles I'll check on a map and get back to you on that. We did duck into a store calle Pepe Ganga which is a sort of Toys R Us to buy some batteries for my camera not realizing they were having a one day Christmas sale. Christmas sales are a new thing in Colombia and a lady I talked to said she had waited in a check out line over two hours in the morning and had come back again after lunch to buy some more stuff and expected to wait in line for over an hourt again. It was pretty crazy in there, then again I have never gone shopping on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Talk to you again tomorrow, Dwight