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- Caracas
- Capital
- Bolivar (VEB)
- Currency
- 23,916,810
- Population
- VE
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Merida Slideshow
Merida
Travel Blogs from Merida, Venezuela
Happy New Year...
... help I sent a SMS to Yelitza asking her to meet us at 5...imagine my surprise when we got no response. We went into Merida later that afternoon and tried calling her cell. Answering machine. Women, I swear...why canīt they just speak their mind. If ...
Going West
... on foot and one and a half day later I arrive in Mérida, a vibrant student city and the main tourist centre of Venezuela's high Andes, offering a variety of adventure sports such as parapenting, rafting, canyoning, climbing, ... you name it. In spite of ...
sehr atemberaubend...
... mit tomatensosse und gehen langsam wieder ins bett. am naechsten tag steigen wir in zwei stunden schnell ab und kommen wieder in merida, in unserer deutschen unterkunft gut an, wo wir auch die nacht verbringen werden. morgen soll es dann weiter richtung ...
Lost in Translation
... sign that heīs not leaving for atleast three hours. How right he was! Did you know they have the bestest best place here in Merida? The shop for the world record holder for the most flavors of ice cream is right here in town. 800+ flavors with 80 ...
What happened?
... wake me up. Letīs hope for my sake that I dont end up in a ditch. Iīve been pretty good at saving money here in Venezuela. Since I stated at first that I have a $20 a day budget, it has become very difficult to try to keep it under the budget. I ...
Merida
... make life so easy for the tourists. Having done a bit of reading before hand we knew to come to Merida as its known as the adventure capital of Venezuela! What better way to shake off the real world and get us into holiday mode! The first posada ...
Teleferico
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 ...
Back in the mountains
7th July 2009 Hotel Suize, Merida, Venezuela (90 bfs) cool and windy We travelled overnight from Maracay on one of the express buses. The way it works here is that you go to the bus station, a tout picks you up and takes you to a booth where ...
made it to Merida
... . This is where my rusty spanish was becoming quite frustrating, but i got there! At the bus station I caught a mini van to Merida, which i thought would be 2 hours, and turned out twice as long... the beginning of the drive was amazing, climbing up into ...
Merida
... to South America after a couple of relaxing days with my cousin in Madrid. As soon as the plane landed in Caracas, Venezuela everyone broke into a rapturous applause. It worried me a bit - are safe landings that uncommon here?! We`re stuggling with ...
Start of the Andes
... ; Merida stretches narrowly in the shadow of the mountains rising up beside it to a peak of 5,100m. Venezuela's highest mountain. Merida itself only sits at approx 1,300m. However we are thinking of taking the worlds longest and highest ...
adventure i Merida
... i en flod og vandfald i 4 timers tid. Onsdag morgen tog vi en kabinelift op paa toppen af Pico Bolivar, det hoejeste punkt i Venezuela(5.007m). Saa sne for foerste gang i aar. Om eftermiddagen var det mere adventure med pendule. Pendule minder lidt om ...
Montanas, Palabras and Fanny Packs
... poop, I thought I was going to die. Turns out, Kiko is a world champion duathlete, triathlete, marathoner who is sponsored by Venezuela... yeah, the whole Country! Ha! Good thing I was so naïve and ignorant before agreeing to run with him! Since ...
High up in the Venezuelen Andes
... not as scary as expected (once you`d got past the running off a cliff part...) Tonight we start a 16 hour truck ride across Venezuela, via some of the most technically demanding roads in the country, to the coast. Can`t wait to see the Caribbean for the ...
Merida Madness!!
Day 1 Arrived into Merida around 10 am, as is typical with Venezuela, the bus left a little late and arrived an hour late, we were met at the bus terminal by Dietar, the Posada owner, we then shared a taxi with a Polish couple to his posada and ...
Home to the best guesthouse in the entire world!!
... have ever experienced we arrived in Merida and oh what a shock. It's lovely (which means compared to the rest of Venezuela it's a beautiful paradise!). It's green and surrounded by National Parks, the street are clean and you almost feel safe at ...
Nyt fra Merida
... moedte op i god tid paa avisen kl. halv seks. Havde faaet af vide at vi skulle gaa samlet fra avisen ved en sekstiden. I Venezuela er tid ligesom et fremmedord, alt skal foregaa stille og roligt. Kl. syv var de folk vi skulle moedes med stadig ikke ...
Half-Naked at 2300m
Ok, so why are we half naked at 2300m and not a swimming pool or beach in sight?! Well, this is canyoning! It can only be described as an exhilerating adrenaline rush and essentially involves ignoring the little voice in your head telling you that your ...
unerwartet erfrischend!
ganz unverhofft fragt uns die frau (huebsch) vom eigentuemer der deutschen unterkunft, ob wir nicht einen tag von so einer gefuehrten tour mitmachen wollen. weil die genau nach barinas fahren wuerde, wo wir einen flug nach caracas nehmen wollen. wir ...
Bicycle Touring
Now this is more manageable. Our route today was maybe only 40km in total, and at least half was downhill. We also got to stop every 30 minutes or so for some little town with awesome Colonial (Spanish colonies) architecture, or at a coffee & ...
Solid Climbing Day
We traded bikes for boots today and did a ~18km hike up a mountain that separated two valleys. The walk was quite nice as we had horses following us to carry any additional supplies (like water) the group needed. The initial sections were pretty ...
Student demonstrations and a long walk
... tell me how much something is - a vast improvement on last year!!!!). Apart from the studying we encountered a little student disturbance. Merida is basically a student town and every year about this time (2 weeks from end of term) the student have a ...
Okay, i lied
Okay, I lied about the women not being beautiful. While I sat in the park (think plaza with more trees), I noticed that here in Merida, the women are ALL abosolutely gorgeous. Now I know I sound like a horn dog right now, but any guy (straight or gay) ...
Merida - South America's adventure capital
... Argentina. In addition to the problems organising Angel Falls we have had other issues to contend with too, particularly around money. Venezuela has a black market for changing cash. The rate you get on the black market is around 75%+ higher than what ...
Discussions of politics
... the mountains where it is peaceful and air is clean. Surrounded by mountains and valleys, I canīt imagine a better place to live in Merida. My mouth was dry from all the beers I consumed the previous night but since I lost my Nalgene in the taxi last ...
Crossing the Border to Venezuela
... was also rumored to be the most difficult one. In the online community, but certainly on official travel advisories, Venezuela has a rather bad reputation. Crime rates are supposedly high, including those for violent crimes such as armed robberies and ...