Best Western CCT Caracas

... has passed these lips now and I am finally content that death is inevitable! (but not on this journey mum). Traversing around the city with Dilza (Tia Dilza) is an experience due to the mass of cars in such a controlled mess. How they dodge each other when driving is impressive. The cross roads are more like being in O.K. coral, and sitting in Dilza's little ...

Bleary eyed we stumbled off the night bus into the huge metropolis that is Caracas - I am sure Julie really enjoyed spending her birthday evening travelling 800km. We jumped in a taxi and headed to our hotel passing a skyscraper with a huge red mug on top of it advertising Nescafe, it must have been 20 feet high, it left me craving one so it obviously worked. There are no hostels in Caracas so we are staying centrally at the Hotel ...

... Yes!! Somehow this experience will affect our lives and shape what we become. I can see it. We enjoy being here it has made us slow down. I look forward to our next step from here. Maybe we will Island hop through the Carribean to the Dominican Republic where NDLL has another ranch of a similar fashion. Maybe we will head to Dubai and look for that job. Maybe we will take a amazon cruise to Paraguy and work as a cowboy and girl for awhile. Maybe we will come home to ...

Alles schoene nimmt mal es aend... Nach dene 3 wunderschoene wuche, i dene ich venezuela han doerfe kaennelerne, isch es gad chli schwer gsi zum Abschiednaeh, aber mer soett ja immer daenn gah, waenns am schoenschte isch... Venezuela ich wunderschoen, maengisch schockierend, vielfaeltig, tueflisch und paradiesisch gsi... Danke fuer di schoen ziit Elisa... z venezuela.... hasta pronto...

... to communicate that there is a lot of mixed information circulating on Venezuela and most of the mainstream press in the West comes from the anti-Chavez camp...that I was interested in the country´s pursuit of an alternative socialism....and that people there should keep on searching for the truth, keep on asking questions, and fight for what they believe in... Elida then invited me to visit her son´s house in Carapita - one of the barrios/rachos in Caracas. We headed over ...

... and pool. We had been to the supermarket and picked up some food for the bbq and enjoyed some nice sausages and a huge slab of beef which went down a treat. We went from being starving to being stuffed in a matter of minutes. The night was excellent with countless beers sampled as we got to try a variety of Venezuelan beers and we also indulged in some table football and it is safe to say that me and ...

... room, which I couldnt quite remember where it was, so what could I do??? Of course, soon as we get back, I was able to get a room (hed asked the clerk to save one for me, so I had to pay for the room AND a large tip for the hotel clerk)", so I put my bags in there, and went to a internet cafe....indeed, hed taken about Aus$800 from my account, and they had left the hotel before I had returned. A quick check of my bags revealed that my Camera had also gone missing, which was a ...

These people are into futbol. The celebrations for games are bigger than thier independence day (July 5th). And it's not even like Venezuela is in the world cup! A party celebrating a win by Portugal blocked part of the PanAmerican Highway. We were told that everyone in the town were of portugese descent thus explaing the party. But a few days later Italy won a game and you would have ...

... beautiful dive sites and it was just me and the divemaster at all the sites so had a good time - no babysitting, no messing, just good diving. Returned to Cumana and got transportation sorted to Caracas - difficult considering that the whole country is on holiday and bus seats are scarce. The following day hunted around for presents for my family I am hopefully soon to see in Puerto Rico. My backpack now makes buses look small...!! And ...

... nd unique tr*dition*l drums to the tune th*t their children *re pl*ying to, it's *ll existing in h*rmony here, it's not disconcerted or sep*r*te. And there is *we in the re*liz*tion th*t this kind of tr*nsitory ph*se between tr*dition*l *nd modern might only exist for * few precious ye*rs. Some people v*lue *bove *ll the tr*dition*l while others pl*ce the highest import*nce on modern-western v*lues; but, I think th*t the tr*nsitory period between the two is just *s import*nt ...