Bacata Bogota

... jealous!), and eventually getting through customs with no dramas, and finding myself an empty row of seats in the waiting lounge where i could lay down and stretch out.

Flight five: the final and shortest flight, Melbourne to Launceston, with a whole class full of students up the back of the plane where the girls were scared of flying to felt the need to squeal on both takeoff and landing. Lucky for them i was seated closer to the front. At this ...

... dass ** höh** ist als d** höchste B**g in Deutschland…) und die optimal Aussichtsplattform für (fast ganz) Bogotá - die Stadt ist so riesig, dass man selbst von da oben nicht alles sieht. Es gibt einen „Zug“ d** hochfährt und Gondeln. D** Zug ist unglaublich steil, ab** es macht Spaß!

…waren wir auch im Goldmuseum. Es ist unglaublich int**essant und ziemlich mod**n ab** auch RIESIG! Wir waren fast 2 Stunden drin und ...

... also a military man painted in all green holding a Colombian flag doing the motionless/robot gig. There were also ¨freak show¨offerings that aimed to conjure up pity and a few pesos. There were the dwarf sisters piled into a wheelchair and the limbless man. The best was a wheelchair-bound man making a protest against technology. He sat motionless and expressionless with a keyboard in his lap and a box over his head, the front panel clear and made to look like a computer ...

2 hours after leaving the remoteness of the Amazon we found ourselves in an 8 million people metropolis and we were slighly impressed with the choice. We decided to let us go for some days and stayed in the old town called Candelaria. If we remember well every building was a pub there...

... that I didn't want to hang around to find out!

Anyway, enough ranting about Caracas. A lot of people have asked me what I'm actually going to be doing on my travels and the honest answer is that I don't exactly know. I've never really planned d things, I just do what I feel like at the time. Having said that here is a rough outline of what I want to do....

05/09: Western Venezuela
06/09 - 07/09: Colombia with a few spanish lessons thrown in. Perhaps some ...

... I had considered upgrading to the Casa but decided against spending the extra money...but because they had made an error I now have the upgrade for the price of the hostel! Lucky me! The hotel is a short walk from the cable car and funicular railway that climb the Cerro de Monserrate. At 3160 meters, it offers a ...

... the town for a couple of hours and eventually came across a giant xmas tree, never seen one so big. Was very nice there, food was great and everybody was very friendly. Drove back late afternoon but got caught in a traffic jam, so spent 2 or 3 hours crawling along the road back to caracas.

... aspettare domani e riprovarte con un´altro comandante e abbiamo compreto il biglietto aereo. Merda che sconfitta.. ma al ritorno ci riproviamo.. anche perche´per allora conto di avere gia´perso la carta di credito... come la guida che ho perso oggi... Sono proprio in forma... Domani bimotre a elica fino all'arcipelago e poi aragosta.. e mohito sulla spiaggia. Che palle ratti non vuole mangiare mai... io ho fame!! Ciao a tutti, Nicola e Davide

... cockpit which was pretty cool. The pilots were a bit casual and seemed to be having a lot of banter but seemed to know what all their knobs did. Look there was no pun or innuendo intended there. I cast my mind back to the difficulty I had taking an Aer Arann from Waterford to Luton that was twice the size of this beauty. I very much regretted not having a few in the bar beforehand. But anyway I finally made it to the resort. It was really nice ...

... It is by far the cleanest and most beautiful part of the city. Lastly, we went downtown and walked around the many plazas, visited La Iglesia de San Francisco and saw the government buildings. This part of Caracas is most dangerous and we were advised not to go here by our Dean and by numerous cab drivers who refused to drop us off here. Of course, our sense of adventure brought us to this area. This part of town was filled with many beggars and homeless people. However, it has ...