Caracas, Venezuela Travel Blogs

Touch and Go
Jul 19, 2008

Caracas has the most beautiful slums. Sprawling for miles and miles are identical square brick houses with frameless, barred windows. Here and there, there is a house painted in baby blue or baby pink. Occasionally white. As we get closer to the airport, ...

Welcome to Venezuela
May 12, 2006

... next to him and eventually he moves off elsewhere. Not one person on the bus intervenes on my behalf. Rachel decides that Venezuela is a bad place. Once in my seat the journey is a comfortable one and we reach our destination of Cuidad Bolivar early in ...

Crackers in Caracas
Sep 6, 2005

... I met with some others in my group and we decided to take the cable car to the top of the mountain that overlooked Caracas (according to the guide book, the only tourist attraction in Caracas worth visiting) The top of the mountain was 2,250mtrs and the ...

Caracas
Sep 12, 2005 (7 photos)

... painted on them and "Contribute to our economy: pay your taxes". I find this all very interesting: clearly the people of Venezuela aspire to consumerism but according to the President, Chavez, this country is on a path towards socialism. I read in the ...

How did I get here?
Sep 9, 2006 (1 photos)

... became very hard - I would have to spend a night in Caracas for the connecting flight blah blah. I had a browse through the Venezuela chapter in my guidebook, and made the executive decision to have a proper crack at seeing a bit of the country. The girl ...

Lunch with the opposition.
Nov 25, 2006 (2 photos)

... is almost completely out of hotel rooms. I found one without TOO much difficulty....for a price. Oh well, last night in Venezuela. This place is insane though...there are people EVERYWHERE, and it seems EVERYTHING is politicized. Speaking of which, I ...

Bit nervous in Caracas
Jul 7, 2006 (4 photos)

... just Ant and S the new ones and ozzies, Swede and other Brit staying with us. Fingers crossed will enjoy rest of day in Caracas as much as have done so far! Next stage of trip is a lot more camping and wildernessy as we have been spoilt with quite ...

What? No booking?!
Mar 11, 2006

... on Friday 10 March, after 26 hours aboard a bus from Cartagena, Colombia, we stepped out into the early morning sunlight in Caracas, the crazy capital of Venezuela. A day of killing time lay ahead of us - we were due to check in at about 4.30pm for our ...

Damn Christians.
Nov 19, 2006

... the city, and then Iīll head back to the bus station to wait for my 8:30pm departure. Pretty blah day, all in all. Although Venezuela seems nice! Itīs just my mood that is blah, not the country or the city! Costs for the day: Bus ticket 25$, juice 2$. ...

The Lost World
Nov 21, 2004

... a private four wheel drive, and a great driver called Ronald and guide called Rawling. The Gran Sabana is a huge area of Venezuela that has rolling hills, grassy plains (which were all jungle until 1928 when fire and drought hit), areas of jungle and the ...

Arriving in a War Zone
Nov 4, 2006

... was a free night in a four star hotel, all inclusive - not a bad way to spend your last day in Europe. Caracas... Well commonly you read in guide books that a place is dangerous, that you should avoid certain areas ect.  This can definately be ...

DIARY OF A NICE GUY'S LOSING
Jun 9, 2003

From time to time, during my last week of travel, spent in Caracas, Venezuela, someone would get surprised by my Spanish-speaking abilities and say about me, "El habla igual como un venezolano." (He speaks just as if he was Venezuelan.) At which ...

THEY WERE THE BEST OF TIMES
Jun 13, 2003 (2 photos)

... can't leave saying the main thing I've learned was: "All girls are evil." There were too many good times. Even in Venezuela, I still had a good time, with my "panas" (pals), David and Gerardo. One nice thing about Venezuelan friends is that they ...

Crackers
Nov 1, 2006 (2 photos)

... Acceptable *** Arrived in Caracas with two days before our next flight on to Ecuador. Off to explore. Picture attached is classic Venezuela Car. This was our taxi to the hotel and the guy asked if I would like to drive. Brilliant. Arriving in South ...

Venezuela and Home!
Jan 25, 2006

Angel Falls!

Atrevete!
Nov 29, 2006 (5 photos)

... my first saturday night on the town. On the way in we collect my aussie mate Joules who has just finished living a proper Caracas horror story I'd recount it here but it might be easier to read his version of events here http://images.travelpod.com/travel- ...

Brig and Barbs remake "the terminal" in Caracas
Jul 1, 2008

... We consummed vast amounts of coffee, ate a subway (ham and cheese, sweet honey mustard. we noted different salad opportunites in venezuela. good info i know), mourned our lack of reading material and played a lot of card games. 6.00 pm: taken aside ...

Venezuela may never be the same again
Dec 8, 2004

Hola mes amigos, well iīve almost survived Venezuelan, headin to Cuba tomorrow so just one more night of good behaviour. Venezuela is a pretty cool place and we ended up doing alot that we intended. First off when we arrived into Caracas we headed east to ...

El Coņo De Madre
Dec 5, 2006

... of view but I manage to get the gist of what they have to say; 'Chavez is a crook', 'the whole thing was obivously rigged', 'Venezuela is soon to become another Cuba', 'it's gonna take more than an election to get rid of this guy', 'time to start thinking ...

in Venezuela angekommen
Aug 2, 2007

hey! wir sind in venezuela. ist zwar bewoelkt, aber extrem warm. also echt tropisch. schwuel und alles. naja, wir wollten so schnell wie moeglich aus der stadt raus. also haben wir bei ner tourist info gefragt, wo der bus nach maracay faehrt. die haben uns ...

Itīs All About the Journey
Jun 22, 2008

... vibrations of this amazing Caribbean town.  I will tell you more later.  But for now, I leave you with another Caracas experience:    On my second day in Caracas, I planned a trip to Colonia Tovar, a German village two hours ...

Back to the big smog
Aug 2, 2005 (3 photos)

Sun and sand now behind us, we find ourselves, once again in Caracas airport, which we know and loathe! Our attempt to find TAP failed, since this wasnīt a day they had flights, obviously there was no one who worked for them... weī ...

Caracas
Aug 9, 2007

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Siempre hora pica en Caracas
Oct 5, 2009 (10 photos)

... She drove us around the various districts of the city, introducing us to the way of life in Caracas.  Dilza has been to many different parts of Venezuela and was full of advice and assistance which was great. Our stops included a fruit stall where we ...

Min mor i Venezuela
Jun 6, 2006

Loerdag den 3. juni kom min mor til venezuela. Hun ankom til caracas lufthavn, hvor jeg skulle ind og hente hende. Startede min rejse kl 6 fredag morgen. Jeg tog med en baad ud til hovedfloden og ventede paa den offentlige transportbaad, som jeg sejlede ...

Caracas, What a wonderful place.
Jun 5, 2008 (3 photos)

01/06/2008 - T We arrived in to Caracas a couple of  hours before dark. The Lonely Planet, as well as other travellers, had informed us that it was far from safe, gangs, guns etc. so we got straight on a bus and then the metro (very clean ...

Caracas - The city of tall ugly buildings!
Jun 15, 2006 (3 photos)

... waste the fossil fuels that we have and maybe that day will come before the fuel runs out. Food was a bit disappointing in Venezuela. I swear I will never ever eat ham and cheese again even if it is the absoluetly last thing to eat on this planet. They ...

Vamos Venezuela!
Oct 17, 2005 (33 photos)

... say I don't think I have ever sweated as much in my life as that day and got the first of many bites to come for Venezuela. We went over 16 miles up to a old hacienda including a extra trip to some waterfalls in our lunch hour. There was a chap that lived ...

Venezuela Caracas
Jun 14, 2008 (52 photos)

... and striking contrast against the deep green of the jungle. It is the now the picture in my head I have when thinking of Venezuela. Often there is cloud below the ranch and these houses making for an isolated mystical type setting.   I have been ...

El Primero Dia en Venezuela
Feb 17, 2005

... Turns out that was a good decision because to have spit in the National Parque would have virtually been a complete disrespect to Venezuela... yeah, kinda like a Catholic spitting in the Popeīs face... yah, dont think I would have earned much of a gracious ...