Merida Campgrounds - Reviews and Rates

Hid my US dollars (Venezuelan officials have a history of sticky fingers as the Dollar fetches nearly double the official exchange rate on the back market for the government overvalues their own currency) in my boots and crossed the border into Venezuela. After a few backhanded comments about the US and Obama saving my country from her problems ...

Arrived in Merida yesterday...after a stunning trip up through the Andes, passing through quaint mountain villages. Merida is really beautiful, not to mention refreshingly cooler.The city is large, but surrounded by towering green mountains. It has a real Andean feel to it...reminding me of Peru somewhat... Today I went paragliding off some arid...

Getting as far as Merida in one long go was not planned. When I left Santa Marta in the very early morning on August 17th I wasn´t very sure where to go. I wanted to go to Aracataca which is the birthplace of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, fictionalized as Macondo in his book "One Hundred Years of Solitude", which I am currently reading - so this would...

Okay. WOW... 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! And for the first time in while, I was inspired to express my experience poetically....