I have found my Mecca and it is called Theatron.
It's a gay club in Chapinero, an area in Bogota. The cover is a little pricey, even by US standards- $30,000 pesos, or $15, but it includes an open bar for the entire night.
There are three levels. THREE.
The first floor is electronic slash techno music. Think nnts-nnts-nnts-ntts. It has a DJ and a huge screen with really trippy visuals, like a nightmarish doll zooming closer on her face and her lips moving and stuff.
There are pink glowing bars everywhere. There are also mini clubs inside it that are respectively for girls only and guys only.
The second floor is reggaeton, which sounds like reggae but is not--it's basically the Latino version of American popular music, except it's better than American dance music because it never gets old. (Seriously, it doesn't. I don't know why. Everyone knows all the words to every song and many of them have been around for a long time and no one ever seems to care.)
Example: A really popular club song here--
Algo que me Gusta de Ti, Wisin y Yandel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rgwIp6D3ow
The top floor is a huge open area that's sort of a mock terrace, all open air. There are mock buildings and mock cafes that have outdoor seating areas so people can sit down and chill from dancing for awhile. There is a hamburger/hot dog mini fast food place. There are mini pubs on this floor, leading off of the big open area, as well as a salsa/merengue room (although if there is a theme that night, it changes to things like an eighties music).
On the open roof area, there is a movie theater marquee. If you go through the doors, you enter an absolutely massive room. You are standing on a platform that overlooks another platform, and another (that one has a bar on it), and another, stairs leading down to each one, each one lit a glowing neon pink, until it opens up to a completely massive dance floor and a stage. A show happens each night on the stage and the type of show varies. Above the stage are three giant screens playing music videos of whatever song it is, and most of them are generally epic. A lot of American music, like David Guetta or Lady Gaga and things like that. There are smoke and crazy colored laser lights everywhere and the place is always completely packed.
Also, you can't go three steps without seeing at least five fabulous Colombian gay dudes.
Like I said, this is my Mecca.
SEPT. 20
It's a gay club in Chapinero, an area in Bogota. The cover is a little pricey, even by US standards- $30,000 pesos, or $15, but it includes an open bar for the entire night.
There are three levels. THREE.
The first floor is electronic slash techno music. Think nnts-nnts-nnts-ntts. It has a DJ and a huge screen with really trippy visuals, like a nightmarish doll zooming closer on her face and her lips moving and stuff.
There are pink glowing bars everywhere. There are also mini clubs inside it that are respectively for girls only and guys only.
The second floor is reggaeton, which sounds like reggae but is not--it's basically the Latino version of American popular music, except it's better than American dance music because it never gets old. (Seriously, it doesn't. I don't know why. Everyone knows all the words to every song and many of them have been around for a long time and no one ever seems to care.)
Example: A really popular club song here--
Algo que me Gusta de Ti, Wisin y Yandel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rgwIp6D3ow
The top floor is a huge open area that's sort of a mock terrace, all open air. There are mock buildings and mock cafes that have outdoor seating areas so people can sit down and chill from dancing for awhile. There is a hamburger/hot dog mini fast food place. There are mini pubs on this floor, leading off of the big open area, as well as a salsa/merengue room (although if there is a theme that night, it changes to things like an eighties music).
On the open roof area, there is a movie theater marquee. If you go through the doors, you enter an absolutely massive room. You are standing on a platform that overlooks another platform, and another (that one has a bar on it), and another, stairs leading down to each one, each one lit a glowing neon pink, until it opens up to a completely massive dance floor and a stage. A show happens each night on the stage and the type of show varies. Above the stage are three giant screens playing music videos of whatever song it is, and most of them are generally epic. A lot of American music, like David Guetta or Lady Gaga and things like that. There are smoke and crazy colored laser lights everywhere and the place is always completely packed.
Also, you can't go three steps without seeing at least five fabulous Colombian gay dudes.
Like I said, this is my Mecca.
SEPT. 20
The top floor, open-air. Photo cred Brie Wolf
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