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- Caracas
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- Bolivar (VEB)
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Merida Slideshow
Merida
Travel Blogs from Merida, Venezuela
Camping in the Andes
This weekend was interesting to say the least. Friday night a few of us went to watch the WORLD SERIES BASEBALL game of venezuela. Its a major deal here, bigger than the Super Bowl at home! After Caracas won.. (most of us were rooting for the other ...
Merida
Mérida is a city in the Venezuelan Andes, famous for extreme sports and adventure holidays. Story and photos on ...
Lechosa, lechosa, lechosa...
Its sunday and it was pretty hard to sleep in, but I still did! Here it starts getting noisy at 7 to 8 in the morning!! During the week (monday through saturday). My family is so nice to me. I couldn't imagine living with any other ...
And back to Merida again for the second time
We decide to do a quick stop at Exito supermarket to get food, biscuits, water for the trip as we couldnt find one in Mérida before heading for the border. It was pretty much a repeat of the last time. Exit stamp, bridge walk, entry stamp on other ...
Teleferico
... in Venezuela, and, when found, often means 'slightly warmer than the mountain stream we took it from'. In a climate like Venezuela's this is not really a problem but it helps you appreciate the hot water when you find it, especially when you are ...
Back in Merida
... of trekking from Mucuy entrance to the Sierra Nevada national park (7000´) to Pico Espejo (15633´) we are back in Merida. The high altitude trekking and especially the nights were really hard. But the scenery and experience was awesome. We´ll ...
So Ferria del Sol is awesome
This past weekend...5 days was a rush! We started off the weekend on thursday night by going out to a discoteca to dance the night away haha! Friday I went to the pool with a friend, Nat. That's always a day spent well. We usually ...
Relampago de Catatumbo y Los Llanos
... Marlin) and headed off in small 4WD with the infamous reggae-tron blasting my eardrums. Now here is something very exciting about Venezuela that is going to have my dad heading straight for the calculator. They produce petroleum here. So we filled up the ...
Hola de Merida
... begining of the trip! Very charming, in the middle of the mountains, with a much better security than in other places here in Venezuela... I like it! ;-) Back in times for a few days: after Isla de Margarita, we went to la peninsula de Araya, which is ...
Como no, Venezuela
Siempre que podemos vamos a Venezuela, Barquisimeto, Mis Andes Bellos y Hermosos y a donde nos alcanza el tiempo para poder ...
Living the good life
Life in Mérida. I would have never expected it to feel so normal living here. I still am in love with the mountains and the people and the culture, but now everything is just normal. It's not so exotic anymore, but it feels pretty neat ...
Yep, I'm at that point
The abroad office at Minnesota continued to warn us about the culture shock we would be experiencing while preparing us for the trip. Now that's it's been 2 weeks, I definitely thought, hmmm maybe I wont really experience that. I have such a ...
Last days in Colombia - Going to Merida, Venezuela
... I visited I think the people I met made this place even more special. My next destination is Merida in Venezuela, a described adventure-sports playground as it is possible to do a number of different activities. However, going to Merida ...
Major FAIL!
Its been less than a week and I have misplaced both pairs of sunglasses that I brought, obtained about 25 misquito bites that are driving me insane, been woken up every day before 6:30 am by screaming parrots and barking dogs from next door.. AND dropped ...
Solo que necesita es el sol
... that I cannot settle for any other trip for spring break besides to Los Roques, an archipelago of islands of the coast of Venezuela. They are pristine, with most of the islands uninhabited. From what I've read about them, there are lots of ...
Merida
Veridi heil og sael, timi fyrir sma frettaupdate. Eg er nuna komin i sidasta lidinn af Venezuela programminu en thad er sidasti manudurinn i Merida. Thessi baer er allt odruvisi en thar sem vid vorum adur en herna sa eg kaffihus i fyrsta skipti sidan eg ...
General Mérida-ness
My main reason for visiting Mérida was to see the Catatumbo Lightning near Lago De Maracaibo but as it turns out the town as a whole is a pretty pleasant place to be and I liked it from the minute I stepped off the bus and wasn't descended on by men ...
Mérida: Beautiful place, but what´s with the rain?
... seen one demonstration (against bullfighting, saying "ni cultura ni desporte", ´neither culture nor sport´, as the biggest carnival in Venezuela is about to start here and run for a week) and various political messages sprayed onto walls. I´m ...
Relaxing in Merida, with a natural thermal bath
Today we had a slow start as I hadnt much energy. Even Alexander was slightly affected by a few forkfulls of my pasta :( Alexander fixed the camera, we brought our clothes to the laundry and caught a bus to Tabay to visit the hot springs. We figured it ...
Viva la Suiza
... help of my map in the lonely planet guide book I just knew where we where and could tell him to take the second street etc. Merida doesn't have an airport anymore, or just for small business planes and so I had to travel from El Vigia to Merida by taxi ...
Overnight bus
Today was our last day In Merida. We hung about (literally) in the hammocks at our posada then decided to walk to the bus terminal. It took us about an hour to walk to the bus terminal with our backpacks on and we saw all the aftermath of the riots on ...
Adventures in Merida
... shirt so that I could warm up a little, and one of them even told me I could keep it for the way down! Venezuela can be very disorganized, dangerous, dirty and complicated, but eventhough, I don't think anybody would do such a nice gesture in ...
Only one week left ( i can´t believe it!)
... today) we have been exploring a bit more of the city. we went up the teleferico ( gondola) up the highest mountain in venezuela ( not to the peak but nonetheless it was incredible). it was So hihg we were all having trtouble breathing ( not trrouble more ...
Trip to Los Llanos - Day 4
Im up at 5.30am, showered and packed and ready for brakfast at 6am but no one is in the kitchen, no Juan, or Juanito."Oh, slept in". What are the odds that 4 people sleep in? We watched the sun rise. Breakfast eventually at 6.50am. Im starving by ...
Merida
... . Mir haend also ei Nacht z`Kolumbie bi ganz liebe Luet verbracht und sind am noechschte Morge scho wieder loszoge nach Merida, Venezuela. E wunderschoeni Stadt isch das... wuerkli... Ich glaub es isch d`Stadt gsi, woni am meischte gnosse han ...