Playa Grande Caribe Hotel Caracas

... Unfortunately, there was prostitution on this street, and a related stabbing the night before we left. We received minimal harrassment until the day we left. As we were walking from the hotel to the metro to get to the bus station, we were stopped by a couple of police officers. They took our passports, searched Pierre:Paul´s pack, albeit not very thoroughly, and didn´t find anything of interest. One searched Pierre:Paul´s pocket and pulled a bit of dried leaf out ...

Together again atlast. 4days in caracas was enough headed to Colonia Tovar. A small german settlement supposedly about 2 hrs out of Caracas. Nice place. Back in Caracas having just had a meeting with NDLL (Volunteering organisation refer link below). PLanning to start work there on Thursday...... Started and here are our intial thoughts. Hello from Aunt Amy and Uncle David or in Spanish Tio David and Tia Amy. We have taken up positions in the Ninos De La Luz La Finca or ...

... Kollegin in d** Schweiz bzw. von mehr**en Einheimischen empfohlen. Und sie hatten Recht: Altamira ist eine nette Gegend mit vielen Hotels und Restaurants. Man fuehlt sich dort auch als Neuling und Auslaend** relativ sich**. Mein Hotel lag direkt neben d** "Plaza Altamira". Das Zimm** war riesig - quasi eine kleine Wohnung. Leid** war es ab** sehr laut, denn die Autos auf d** Strasse hupten nonstop. Hupen scheint allgemein eine Art Volkssport zu sein in ...

I got back to Caracas on Sunday and spent several days here before heading off traveling again. George, a friend from London (and Rosa´s cousin) arrived a day later, and we spent time meeting up with some of his friends and seeing other Caraquenian sites with Rosa and family. Photos to come soon.......

... be interesting to see how his socialist policies change the city over the next 10 years. ---- Domingo, 21 de Octubre de 2007 Met with the tour leader this morning - he arrived from Chile last night but thought he´d wait ´til this morning before starting work. This will be his third trip - he´ll be with us for the first part of this trip only. The others haven´t arrived yet. apparently though there are only 3 others on this first part of the trip... all ...

... seems so simple out there...in fact, around most of Brazil and Venezuela it seems simple. I am saddened to see all the americanization going on in both countries - there is unlicensed american products being sold on the streets everywhere! Anyway, best go. If I don´t post anything more before I go home, I will still try to write an update detailing more of the trip. Take care all.... Robyn

... continued contact and now meeting up in Australia for New Years Eve together.... Cant complain too much as Europe now awaits me again followed by Asia before heading home in January. Will update this more when i have more time, the last few weeks have been far too fast for my liking. Looking forward to 2 weeks in my mums sleepy village to catch up on email and much needed sleep. Bye South America.... time to live another dream.....

... too tight and they certainly looked very uncomfortable. Maybe I wasn´t used to it coming from India and never would be. But there was something mandatory about the tightness and skimpiness of the clothes, every single woman had to wear them regardless of age, race or religion. And they looked at me funny walking around in my baggy fab india sleeveless tops. For whose benefit do they dress like that, their own or anothers? More on that later. I´m exhausted of typing and my beer awaits me.

... way to Tottenham Crt Rd.) After a while the police sent me on my way with a stamped and signed document printed out on old amstrad cpc dot matrix printer that confirmed that I was a careless idiot who shouldn´t be trusted to get the milk from his local corner shop let alone wander the streets of Caracas with plastic money. We made it back to the Hilton without taking the senic route past the gangs and crack *****s in about ten mins flat. Good job I wasn´t paying for that Taxi ride ...

... telefrico (cable car). This ride provided an amazing view of Caracas and how immense it is. The summit of the mountain has areas to walk, an abandoned hotel built in the 70's(?) and a massive Venezuelan flag. Families from the city see this place as an escape and come here to enjoy leisure time. The old hotel is currently being converted into a resort casino. It was lunch time after descending Mt. Avila, and the bus took us to a very nice Venezuelan ...