Porlamar, Venezuela Travel Blogs

Dirty, Dirty Island but great hot dogs!
Jan 11, 2008 (4 photos)

... we've every had to the cheapest pallela we've ever had! (Burgers will be dealt with in a later entry). The beer in Venezuela isn't necessarily the best but it is offically the cheapest. It's roughly 11p for a bottle and it's always served ice cold! So ...

Ehm ta plaz
Sep 24, 2007 (4 photos)

Ehm ... videla jsem plaz...na prvni pohled uplne normalni plaz, zadny prirodni skvost ale ujde to, da se tam lezet, neotravujou stovky plazovejch prodavacu (jen desitky, coz je tak akorat, aby se ke cloveku vcas dostalo, co potrebuje) ...takze ...

Isla Margharita
Sep 23, 2007

Tak jsem se dostala na Isla Margharitu, dokonce i hotel se nasel. Vlastni ho Nemec, kterej je asi tak ochotnej jako Venezuelci, takze vaham jestli je to jeho puvodem nebo se jen vyborne aklimatizoval...mohlo by to bejt oboje, ale vysledkem zase neni ...

Islands in the stream.....
Apr 25, 2008 (22 photos)

... . The Israeli tourists have all disappeared, and been replaced by Germans (direct flights from Frankfurt apparently). It`s still Venezuela though, and even Porlamar has a bit of an edge to it, especially at night. Breathe in deep and you can smell it, ...

The Brothel
Nov 4, 2005 (3 photos)

... station, refuelled with cash and onward bus tickets to Puerto La Cruz (where we planned to catch a ferry to Isla Margarita - Venezuela's largest Island), we met Alfonso, a 21 year old Venezuelan/Swiss with a fondness for Cradle of Filth (no I didn't know ...

Half Mast in Isla Margarita
Jul 20, 2008 (1 photos)

Traveling by sailboat we have visited 20 countries. 19 have been great. Isla Marguerita is a nightmare.  Yesterday morning, our 3rd day here, the out board motor and oars were stolen from our dingy leaving us stranded. We were told by other cruisers that ...

Venezuela
Jan 28, 1995

Porlamar

Chavez, Uribe, Drugs Trade & the FARC
Jan 28, 2008

Felipe, the father of the family I am living with is originally from Eastern Colombia, a region severely affected by the drugs war going on in the country. I had an interesting conversation with him a few nights ago, after watching CNN, which severely ...

Weekend - Small Villages and Argentinian Film
Jan 28, 2008 (36 photos)

... the USA. I read an article recently accusing the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) of actually supporting drug trafficking in Venezuela, and forming cartels of its own. Venezuela stopped cooperating with them because the USA were using the DEA as a pretence ...

Cuba and Venezuela - old and new revolutions
Feb 6, 2008

... up the façade of democracy by secret pacts. What Chavez proposes through his 21st Century Socialism, theoretically could help Venezuela achieve a more egalitarian and productive society moving away its historic dependency on oil. However, he needs to ...

Venezuela´s conundrum: how to serve the poor?
Jan 31, 2008

... consumer society rather than a productive one on the micro-level. On the macro-level we will have to see how well Venezuela´s large new industries are developing. Are their exchange-rate gains large enough to offset the damage to smaller producers?   ...

Arrival in Margarita Island...
Jan 13, 2008 (59 photos)

... www.fundefir.org.ve) He has an apartment in Playa El Angel, part of the urban complex sprawl between Pampatar and Porlamar. A modern apartment block, complete with AC and a swimming pool....he was able to buy this apartment thanks to a social housing ...

Credit access for the poor - initial thoughts
Jan 24, 2008

... Fundefir their monthly transactions....   The benefits There are so many great things about this model, especially in Venezuela, where the majority of the population have no access to credit! Additionally, there is no current culture of ...

Micro solutions to macro-poverty?
Jan 31, 2008

One of my tasks at the NGO, is to look at how it can provide services to increase employment for the poor. Specifically, I am researching possibilities of creating "micro-franchises". These are sound and easily replicable business models (based on the " ...

Today it´s raining in Margarita
Jan 22, 2008

... state provided free cinema. As part of their objective to increase cultural awareness, they have built these local cinemas all around Venezuela, and show documentaries on Venezuela and Latin America and independent films. Last week, I went along to one of ...

Leaving Margarita
Feb 11, 2008 (40 photos)

... the morning looking for a newspaper to see what exactly had gone on with the embargo Exon Mobil had placed on Venezuela. It is absolutely crazy how a powerful company can try and bully a democratically elected government over nationalising its own natural ...

The Islands of the Margaritas?
Dec 2, 2007

After Canaima National Park and Angel Falls, I was headed to the famous Isla de Margarita, an island in northern Venezuela, in the Caribbean Ocean. I got there with a ferry from Puerto La Cruz, which was just about the most classy ferry I've ever stepped ...

Margarita Island
Jan 22, 2007 (3 photos)

... Catagena I headed out to what would be the longest day of the trip as I would spend 41 hours traveling to Margarita Island, Venezuela. Well if that doesn´t sound bad enough on the 24 hour bus ride from Cartagena to Caracas I was subjected to watching all 7 ...

Venezuela
Feb 15, 2008

nice

Isla de Margarita - Venezuela
Sep 27, 2008 (5 photos)

... a super nice guy in the bus (5 hours of transportation... we had time to meet people!). He's from Iceland but has been living in Venezuela for 8 years, so he could give us some good advice! From Puerto la Cruz, we took a boat to a small remote beach called  ...

Ehhhh Margarita
Oct 6, 2009 (2 photos)

I am here in Ciudad Bolivar trying to catch up with the blog entry that I have missed over the last few days. This was just a small trip to Isla de Margarita and I never knew that there was such a place, nothing happens and everything is happening.  ...

Porlamar
May 4, 2008

Porlamar

Slikking av sol og bruk opp de siste pengene
Apr 22, 2007 (4 photos)

I og med at det var tydelig at skjebnen ikke ville ha oss ut til noen karibisk oystat, faar vi ta til takke med en venezuelansk en. Velkommen til Isla Margarita, Venezuelas svar paa "Syden"! Som i gode gamle syden finner man her hummerfargede europeere, ...

Isla Margarita 1996
Mar 27, 1996

Isla Margarita 1996

Porlamar
Aug 14, 2007

Porlamar

Venezuela
Feb 15, 2005

... , I would usually visit my girlfriend on the weekends. That was my programme until the 16th of February when Karen and I left for Venezuela . Our flight was at 6 in the morning so we had to leave for the airport at two. I thought it would be best to ...

Så gik turen til Margarita, alligevel...
Nov 23, 2007

Hej Alle. Tja så var jeg jo ellers kommet hjem fra Cypern, og havde planlagt at nu skulle guidelivet for mig være slut! Jeg havde fået lejlighed i Næstved og havde søgt forskellige jobs. Men der gik jo ikke længe inden jeg kom til at kede mig og længes ud ...

Recorriendo Venezuela
Jun 5, 1996

I was saving from years to make this travel to Venzuela. My coins help me to take busses from medellin a get Isla Margarita in Venezuela, but was my first great experience

Isla of Margherita
Jan 16, 2008 (6 photos)

... high up in this 4x4 and didn't get our feet wet. Although, rain did come through the roof, but never mind we are in Venezuela. As we arrived, the car park looked like a lake. So Jose drove us to a small fishing village until the rain eased. Sure enough, ...

Sll in short
Apr 16, 2008 (7 photos)

A new year i will hardly forget eaven if do my best ;)