Souvenir stems from the French verb to remember, which is exactly what I do as I look around my office at items collected during my travels. For example, I bought the clay haniwa, a replica burial object of a dancing woman with an O-shaped mouth, in Miyazaki, Japan. Also gracing my office shelves are a small Acoma vase purchased from an indigenous woman in New Mexico, a marble head from Ecuador’s Easter Island, and a death mask from Mexico. So is it any surprise I was keen to shop for Colombian crafts on my recent visit to Bogotá?
I wrote this article on shopping for Colombian crafts in Bogotá for gettingontravel.com. Unfortunately, that website has ceased publication, so I am also reprinting it here:
For more on Colombia, see my blog Indigenous Villages on Colombia’s Amazon River and my article Colombia’s Fantastic and Wild Amazon, published in gonomad.com.
