#grittyurban

Within seconds this individual based on the Calle 19, came over to check the pressure of my tires with his plank, in the hope of earning a few pesitos. #Bogota #streetlife #grittyurban (at Bogotá, Colombia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqst8Q2hR4q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1giidh6mqeip2

Recycling cardboard in downtown #Bogota. #grittyurban (at Bogotá, Colombia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqsltTDBjJK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xuazmurlsy7n

Urban decadence #grittyurban #Bogota (at Bogotá, Colombia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpK3I9sh2MP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17orpq3gkyarg

#Bogota's Mayor @enriquepenalosal is both opinionated and stubborn and is convences - like most politicians - that he has the answer to the city's #transport woes. He may be right, he may be wrong, whatever the case, his inability to listen is shortsighted and out of place in a city finding its identity. #urban #grittyurban #protest (at Bogotá, Colombia)

A street vendor selling onions downtown #Bogota next to AUC #graffiti. As @rickdazam rightly said, it's probably someone's idea of a joke. It is tasteless. #grittyurban (at Bogotá, Colombia)

Everything is for sale on Calle 13 in #Bogota. #grittyurban (at Bogotá, Colombia)

Down and out and bathing under the bright high altitude sun of central #Bogota. #grittyurban (at Bogotá, Colombia)

Just a few blocks to the north of #Bogota's infamous Bronx, now demolished, a new expendium for misery has emerged. Inhabitants of the street sniff, snort and smoke all sorts of drugs in the open. My plan was to explore further, but it was clearly too unsafe without the right accompaniement. #grittyurban (at Bogotá, Colombia)