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Cumana Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Cumana, Venezuela
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When things don´t quite go to plan!
This is a top pick! ... local food thing, some meaty thing in pastry, some drinks and sit on the bus, hoping for 6 hours of relaxation. One thing I notice about Venezuela, is the old Chevy cars. They are everywhere, and the car that got me Carupano was a Chevy too. I take a few ...
Relaxing again on the NE coast
This is a top pick! Friday night we had our farewell meal in Caracas and headed off early next day further NE to the coast. Quite a long drive day on the potholey roads. Keep forgetting to mention that its like being on the set of Starsky and Hutch here with all the ...
Paradise fishing village
This is a top pick! The conductor is a young man of around 20 years. He casually leans out of the minibus, door propped agape, searching for prospective passengers by the roadside. Occasionally he swings back inside as an obstacle rears up ahead. They call the driver "The ...
Carribean Coast
This is a top pick! Leaving Caracas was not difficult to do, and I don´t see me returning there too soon! We took a 6 hr bus journey along the coast, and the final leg of the journey to Santa Fe was by Taxi, they were old big American cars that should have been scrapped ...
More fun in Cumana
... Gaby and Leo (see you in Poland) for welcoming us to their class and spending tons of time with us to explain things about Cumana, Venezuela and your way of life. Cesar and his family for their great joy of life and generosity on our fantastic day at ...
Santa Fe
... food is good and we are all in all happy that we have stuck around. Tomorrow we are off to the oilbird caves via Cumana to Caripe. It should be a little cooler there, and we have yet to see if there is camping, but we are looking forward to ...
Travel day Puerto Colombia - Caracas - Cumana
... they are very likely to get killed. He dropped us off at the bus station, waited to make sure we could catch a bus to Cumana and off we were. A 6+ hour ride. Nice air conditioned bus again, but unfortunately it broke half way there. We were boiling when ...
Chilling in Cumana
Hola, We have decided to stay a while in Cumana. The town itself is very pretty with a few specific cool sites in it. The surrounding area is beautiful with beaches and other wonderful things. The reason we are staying is that we have met some super ...
Caracas to Santa Fe
Soon we arrived in venezuela for the first leg of the Latin American Tour. Caracas we bearly saw, only the national departure lounge as we awaited our flight to Puerto La Cruz. Met a lovely venezuelan girl on the plane who gave us a lift to our hotel from ...
....And it was this big,....no..it really was...
... eating - our lunch arrived and it didn´t disappoint, a huge fish, arepa´s and coleslaw, Mmmm. We explored the crumbling fort, built by the Spanish in order to protect Venezuela from other invading Europeans, before making the return journey to ...
Forever blowing bubbles
We arrived in a rough and tumble fishing village and to be honest, our expectations had been higher. We walked through the market area and onto the beach, the first place we happened upon was a place recommended by the LP, it looked to have a nice ...
Playa Colorada
... gut und "sanft" dass er sich pur trinken laesst. was ich nun rausgefunden habe, ist dass es in venezuela 2 verscheidene wechselkurse gibt, den offiziellen und den auf dem schwarzmarkt. der unterschied? auf dem schwarzmarkt gibts doppet soviel. da ...
Cueva de Guacharo
... able to read about the cave before coming here. The cave is the longest, largest and supposedly the most magnificent in Venezuela. It was known to the locals long before Columbus arrived and was explored by various Europeans. Alexander von Humboldt was ...
Playground games
... ferry, leaving in half an hour. Keen to get moving and not really seeing what other option we had since our time in Venezuela was rapidly coming to an end, we reluctantly brought the tickets and immediately boarded the rundown looking ferry, both of us ...
Playa Concord or not
- Having discussed the situation last night we have decide to give the capitol a miss since we cannot find anywhere that seems safe to stay. Looking at the guidebook there are some things we would like to see, but there is also a lot of crime in the area ...
Venezuela
... the highest murder-rate in the world, according to what my brother read in Nuts! magazine. Thanks rob! Before I got to Venezuela I heard so many bad stories about thieves, armed thugs, the country's expensiveness and general dislike of tourists that I ...
4 states in 4 days - from Anzoategui to Bolivar
... in awe of this city rave about its Centros Comerciales (big shopping malls). It´s true - they have several huge shopping malls - packed with well dressed Venezuelans - but for me, this cannot be further away from the Venezuela I want to get to ...
Feliz Año!
New Years was really fun. We stayed at a posada called Jakera, in Playa Colorado - another small beach town in the North, also part of a National Park. Kinda like Puerto Colombia, but not as crowded. During the day we went on a kayaking trip ...
Karneval v nudnem meste
... nic primeho do mesta Cumana nejede a ze musime dodavkou do nejake vesnice vzdalena pul hodiny cesty, a pak odtamtud primo do Cumana. Z pulhodinove cesty se nakonec stala cesta vice jak hodinova a po prijezdu jsme zjistili, ze kvuli svatku nic ...
the big adventure
Hey everyone Sorry for the long delay but i have not been anyway civilised with Internet access for over a week. I met my group on Thursday 11th in Caracas, there are 9 of us and our guide Angel, a crazy Venezuelan gap leader, he is good fun and speaks ...
Viva el païs viva les vénez !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
c'est maintenant le 26 mars et nous sommes revenus du venezuela le 23 après une ...
Farewell Venezuela
... We hadn't wanted to spend any time in Caracas because there isn't much to do and if you are going to get mugged or killed in Venezuela then Caracas is the place. But it meant that we had a bit of travelling to do and would be spending another night at an ...
Kayak
Got back from a three-day sea-kayaking trip. Reaaaally dope but won´t be writing about it here for a while. Tomorrow am off on bus to Santa Elena to start a six-day trek of Roraima. In the meantime (today) I have a fever and have stubbed various toes ...
Mochima - the caribean beaches
After more than a week in the jungle, it was great to arrive at the caribean beaches. We stayed in Santa Fe, a small and charming fishing village where we spent four days fishing, snorkling and resting. The posada was owned by a very nice couple who ...
An Endless Series Of Beaches Tucked Into Tiny Bays
... all offer excellent swimming, snorkelling and fishing. Mochima is a small village which lies 4km off the main road between Cumana and Santa Fe. It´s packed at weekends but almost deserted throughout the week. The sea waters are not pleasant ...
Ah Mochima, so bigged up and yet so crap.
How I loved the open sewers. Quite literally, one giant ...
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