This is what real poverty looks like| The slums of Bogota, Colombia

Very dangerous to go in. Welcome to Max Takes on the World and today we're going to explore the slums of Bogota, Colombia. Now Bogota is a huge city here in Colombia. It's made up of about eight or nine million people and there's a huge inequality gap. The average salary per person in Bogota is $270 per month. Each cabin it has 164 cabins so it means like 24 people 24,000 people can use the system every day. We got guerrillas, drug lords when it was really difficult to travel around Colombia and we got so many many refugees starting like in the 90s till So all these refugees coming from Colombia, from all parts of Colombia, they ended up in Ciudad Bolívar in the high areas of the mountains of Ciudad Bolívar. So it's what we call it here in the city like invasions because people building their own houses using bricks using other really rough materials and they were not part of the legal and yeah Andrea is a local from here. So they just take material such as clay even they use cow's poo to build houses here. So trash is because the people they don't are used to like what they have to take the trash out of the house. Right here we have the poorest part of the city they kind of just came in and invaded and just built houses here whereas the rest of the places we've seen are are illegal. The area behind me here they call it a pot it's very dangerous to go in and even though we're with like a local guide of this community we still can't go there because they're like a lot of drug trafficking and stuff like that. We're gonna try some traditional Colombian food here from Bogota. We're gonna try Masato. What is Masato? We got a fermented drink. It's an indigenous drink we have taken this for more than 20 centuries. This is our heritage of the indigenous people of the Muiscas. So it's made with rice. It's a little bit like acidic. Kind of tastes like chicha morada. I had that in Peru. It's like a soury kind of taste to it. Made with corn, classic empanadas. This is with chicken. This is with beef and this is something different. This is actually made with cassava. There's over 1,300,000 people that live in this city here. It's huge and just walking here already you can all see a lot of art, a lot of culture. Juan, so would it be dangerous to come here like we weren't with a guide on our own? I don't think so. I mean around the square I think you don't have any issue. But maybe if we go more like farther away maybe it could be because we don't know that places. Even for me as a local, even for Andrea. But this area is really like busy as you can tell. It's commercial, many people around. I think it's totally okay right now in the daytime. Nighttime, I don't know, maybe change. How much do you think it is to get a haircut here in this town? Guess in the comments down below. It's one dollar. One dollar for a full haircut. And an apartment like 50 meters apartment, two rooms, kitchen, living room. So it's one of the cheapest prices in Bogota. So it's around like 400,000 pesos, 600,000 pesos. That means $100 to $130 per month. Then if you want to buy a house, imagine the White House. Easily it could cost $25,000, $35,000. $25,000 to buy a house? Yeah. That is not that big. It's like a medium size. Yeah. When I was in Brazil some of the favelas like on the outside they looked a little rough. But on the inside they look really good. Is it the same here? Same here. Actually there was even support by the government to improve the inside. Like, you know, improve the kitchens, improve the bathrooms, the floors to make it better. And some people don't think that all of them are really poor. No, actually some of them they got good money because of construction. So they got really nice stuff inside. Yeah. For example, this building is one of the fancy ones. Inside is really fancy. The most expensive apartment in Bogota is $12 million a month. And here the apartments are like $100 a month which is relatively cheap even still considering the conditions. So for example, a water service here is going to cost $5 per month for a family. So that's really cheap. Electricity is going to be $7 per month. And gas is going to be also in the order of $6 per month. I'm talking about like a family member of like four people in the house. We're coming out of the residential area into the commercial area. And they have like shops here, barbershops, pharmacies, grocery stores. Just like a normal little town actually. Before in the past they didn't have these amenities here. They had to take the cable cars down to the main city to kind of, you know, get their groceries. This is probably the most exotic fruit in Colombia. Chantaduro. Because bora are endemic for Colombia. Chantaduro and borojo are for all fertility. Huge. Yeah. And look. Big. On the north we cannot see the whole north because there is like a hill. Wow. I could do the drone here. Yeah. And Max also to the right. Because the right is where are the most populated areas. San Cristobal, Usme. And for example Usme. We cannot see the whole Usme. We are finished with our tour of Ciudad Bolivar. I'm now back in north Bogota. And wow. After being in south Bogota and coming to north Bogota you immediately see like a huge huge difference. Now a lot of Colombians say that the area we were in was really bad and dangerous and you shouldn't go. But I personally felt safe now. I've also been in some other favela like environments in South America. And I would say this one it felt a lot more commercialized just in the sense of how they kind of have you know everything they need right there. As opposed to some of the other favelas where you don't necessarily have grocery stores and you know all that kind of stuff there. Again like I wouldn't recommend visiting any of these places without a local guide like I had today. I hope you enjoyed this video. Smash that subscribe button if you haven't. Hit that like button. It really helps me out. And until next time. Fight on.