Merida, Venezuela Travel Blogs

Walking on Water by Steve Dominey
Jul 31, 2007 (40 photos)

... another whole day in a friggin´ jeep. I know, ouch.   This time, our guide`s Cesar, a Spaniard who hates Venezuela´s food, music and litter problem. He´s also discovered over 70 species of frog and knew the Crocodile Hunter, Steve ...

Show us the money!
Jun 27, 2006 (1 photos)

Slept v well and had a great brekkie at the bakery near our hotel. Have a group meeting to discuss the plan of action. Have a few days here to do whatever before we go onto Los Llanos in the jungle. Some of us are going to Lake Maracaibo tomorrow to ...

Death in the city
Jul 11, 2008

Yesterday evening, a student was shot and killed at a protest in town. Just few hours before that I walked past the barricades and the burning trash piles in the middle of the street on my way to a Symphony concert. I didn't imagine it was quite that ...

Will I never learn my lesson?
Nov 20, 2006

... of until she rolled over. haha. I´m that creepy person no one wants to sit next to on the bus!!! Anyway, so I got here to Merida...it´s beautiful. The trip looked a lot like Guatemala at first, but by the time I woke up in the morning we were in the ...

Close to trilingual!!
Nov 23, 2006 (2 photos)

... I´m speaking a foreign language....just like I´ve got the mother of all weird accents. I had the BEST meal thus far in Venezuela today. It was this yummy chicken leg on a bed of mashed potatoes with a red pepper sauce....soooo good. The chicken was so ...

The bad side of chicken.
Nov 24, 2006 (2 photos)

Today is my last day in Merida. Tonight I´m heading back to Caracas on the overnight bus. Should be lots of fun, although I have my sweater ready to counter the freezing conditions I expect to be subjected to on the bus. I´m sad to be finishing my ...

Oh, sweet Venezuela
Jul 9, 2008

... and her life, which happened to take place in here. I know where she's coming from. The situation in Venezuela, based on my observations of Merida and Caracas is more unstable than I imagined. It is in fact fukced up. The latest official number for ...

My teacher is a Chavista...what luck!!
Nov 21, 2006 (2 photos)

... , according to her...and I tend to agree...even if he doesn't actually get more votes, he'll still be the next President of Venezuela). Then we did the usual back in time stuff. Damn past tense!! These next few entries might be a little dry, as I´m ...

This travelling thing...
Nov 22, 2006

... travelling isn't for me...at least not alone. Annoying thing to figure out a third of the way through your trip to Venezuela. Grrr. Don't get me wrong, everything is fine...just I'm not that excited about being here. Guess that kinda sucks. Like ...

Trading one storm for another
Jul 13, 2008 (55 photos)

... . The nature is very, very beautiful.   Ah, and I found out how much a litter of gasoline cost in Venezuela - between 0.7-0.9Bolivares - less than 50cents!!!, less than bottled water. For real.     *** I would definitely reccomend the ...

Uni town in the clouds
Sep 26, 2006

... I've been here a few days now, and have been checking out the multitude of amazing tours available here. Merida is unlike anywhere else I've seen in Venezuela, and I like it. I've also signed up for some private Spanish lessons for all of next week so ...

Crespo means frizzy in Spanish
Oct 7, 2006 (19 photos)

... few kids deep before they know it, and they haven't even met me yet! The wolf whistle is alive and well in Venezuela. Walking past a construction site takes you back to a time before political correctness went silly. In a stroke of genius, someone came ...

Adrenaline Rush!
Apr 18, 2005 (4 photos)

... dinner... The next morning we tracked down a jeep to take us on a breathtaking cliff side hugging 4 hour trip back to Merida! During the following days we went paragliding from Las Gonzales a breathtaking 850 mtre 40 minutes flight down from the top, and ...

So long Merry Merida
Oct 18, 2006 (11 photos)

... the same breath. Still reeling from the 13 past tenses found in the Spanish language, I offer a summary... A lot of people write Venezuela off, but it does have a lot to offer. Honestly? Most of the good stuff is natural beauty, and it's slowly being ...

GEM IN THE ANDES
Jul 22, 2002 (4 photos)

... that carried us away in their stacked hills climbing thousands of feet into the sky. A college town in girl-dominated Venezuela, Merida and its streets were an over-booked convention of pretty, long-haired Venezolanas in tight pants. I was like a ...

The Andes
Dec 30, 2005 (5 photos)

Sorry for the delay, but I´ve been quite drunk! I arrived in Merida yesterday after a 15 hour bus journey from Maracay. Had my sleeping bag out ready for the night bus only for the air conditioning to be broken! Slept 13 hours last night.........in a bed ...

Jeep-taxi-plane-smaller plane-taxi
Aug 7, 2005

... Off to the Venezuelan Andes. Mostly smooth travelling, despite the thermals rising up the mountains causing a somewhat bumpy approach to Merida (no prizes for guessing who was really enjoying this part!). The tiny airport, in the middle of the town, ...

The joys of paragliding
Jan 2, 2006 (3 photos)

Just a quick update about what´s happening up here in the mountains. A load of us went paragliding on the 30th, a good buzz especially up in the Andes. Anyway we all landed safely apart from a Brit from Bristol who ended up flying into a mountain ´cos ...

Don Bosco
Apr 23, 2006 (8 photos)

Hey Vil proeve at fortaelle lidt om Don Bosco, det boernehjem/drengehjem, som jeg arbejder paa. Det er for drenge mellem 7 og 18 aar. Nogle af dem har en familie (fattig) og bor paa hjemmet en del af ugen, mens andre er foraeldreloese. De boern som ...

links to photos on Facebook
Jul 8, 2009

For those of you who don't have access to Facebook here are the links to our photo albums on Facebook, just copy and paste the link into your browser back in the UK june 2009 http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=122018&id=698211564&l=fa5f182756 ...

Sidste tid i Merida
May 4, 2006 (6 photos)

... alle boernene var bare saa dejlige. Onsdag dag var vi paa tur med Eddy. Han koerte rundt og viste os forskellige sevaerdigheder i Merida, og han tog os med op til 2 forskellige bjergbyer. Om aftenen tog vi saa natbussen tilbage til Chichi. Det var maget ...

Afsked og tur til Merida
Apr 19, 2006

... , da hun tog direkte fra isla Magarita til Caracas for at tage videre hjem til DK. Onsdag den 12 april: Den vaerste dag i Venezuela. Vaagnede kl 2 fordi guiderne og nogle gaester, som ikke er med i vores gruppe holdt fest med hoej musik. Laa derefter ...

Teleferico
Feb 21, 2008 (125 photos)

Arrived in the city of gentlemen, and still not found one!!!!  The town itself is not so exciting but the surrounding country side is very stunning.  Went up the cable car today, which is the worlds longest at 12.5km and rising up to over 4000 ...

Adventures in Merida
Jun 18, 2006 (24 photos)

From Caracas we moved onto Merida, which is a small town quite high up in the mountains and is a very beautiful place. The main aim of going there was to do some adventure sports such as paragliding and trekking etc. We caught a bus from Caracas, the` ...

Paragliding over the Andes!
Mar 11, 2005 (3 photos)

... Soy un pajaro!!! I AM A BIRD!!! What an unreal experience I had yesterday... Paragliding over the Andes of Venezuela! Volar en parapente... its called! It was exhilarating, amazing, beautiful, wonderful, incredible... every positive word imaginable! ...

33hr Bus Ride to Merida !!
Aug 14, 2007

Long!

Merida and around
Apr 26, 2009 (19 photos)

... drives around here.  There are cars everywhere for such a tiny place.  I think in a few years the pollution in Venezuela is going to be horrific, which makes me quite sad to think about.  Most countries down here don't have any regulations ...

Messing about in the river
Aug 9, 2005

An early start (as usual), not entirely sure what the day had in store but it needed a good breakfast to get it started. The posada´s restaurant is excellent and the food was equally good, it looked like another couple also staying at the posada where ...

in den Bergen angekommen!
Aug 10, 2007

nachdem wir wieder mal eine nacht lang bus gefahren sind, sind wir nun endlich in kuehleren gefilden. die landschaft hier ist echt wunderschoen und die luft ist ... sauberer. nachdem wir gestern ein paar stunden am busbahnhof von maracaibo, der ...

Catatombo Disco show
Jun 22, 2009 (5 photos)

... the end of the Andes to Merida which was a beautiful drive and renowned for one of the most picturesque drives in Venezuela, we weren´t disappointed having a lunch stop at the summit!  We had been told about a lightening storm on Lake Maracaibo which ...