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Show us the money!
... blocks up in our way too which we werent expecting! Town here is in lovely scenery with mountains around us and the worlds longest cable car which we hope to do later this week. Town itself is not v exciting (have spent most of day trying to find ...
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Adrenaline Rush!
... hop onto the night bus to Merida which is THE adventure-sports capital in South America and also boasts the Worlds highest and longest cable car system. so it had to be amazing....and it was!! Spent the first day orienting ourselves but not to let the ...
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Ice Cream!
... Sundays, so there was absolutely nothing going on. Additionally, the main attraction of the town -- the worlds tallest and longest cable car -- we learned on arrival has been closed for years. So, Merida was perhaps less exciting than all the ...
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A perfect mountain town
Before we left Merida, I really wanted to go up the Teleferico, which is the longest and highest cable car in the world. The four stations take you 12.5 km to the summit of Pico Espejo at 4765 metres in the Andes. We were at the bottom by the ...
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Adventures in Merida
... finished building six extra rooms. We took the one on the third floor which had a fabulous view of the mountains and the teleferico (cable car). My travels so far are going wonderfully fine! I´m having a ball but my dear body is paying for it all!. ...
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The Mountains of Merida
... queued, with what could only be described as a Venezuelan Chunk Tour Group. We rapidly became concerned about the weight the cable car could carry and wondered if the chunks' mass weight would be considered and compensated by cramming less people into ...
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To the beach and back
... tourists of any kind as far as we could tell. Bizarre. It probably didn’t help that the much vaunted “World’s Highest Cable Car" that whisks you up to 4,765m was closed for re-building work - and has been for 3 years. All the locals we ...
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River Deep, Mountain High
... smooth this out for us, for which we were extremely grateful). We hadn't seen any of the great attractions of Venezuela or even of Mérida (the cable car was out of action and we never made it to the 900-flavour ice-cream parlour), but we had ...
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Merida
... had to take a little nap after a very long bus ride, but that I explored the town for a few hours. Tomorrow I am taking th longgest cable car in the world to the top of the local Andes for some hiking, after that, who knows. Off for a pint, More later, ...
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From top to bottom...!
... the last 600m. Therefore we had breakfast, packed up and had another tough rock climb up to the Teleferico (cable car) which happily took us down to Merida and civilisation. Although it may have been the hardset physical thing we've ever had to do, we ...
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