El Serrano Merida
48-110 MERIDA Merida, Andes, 2004, Venezuela
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Ich ha mi eigentlich vor allem uf's Liechtspektakel vo de sogenannte "Relámpagos de Catatumbo" gfreut. Das isch es Wätterlüüchte mit über 250 Blitz pro Schtund, wo in 140 bis 160 Nächt pro Johr immer am gliiche Ort stattfindet. Allerdings isch in dere Nacht s'Wätterlüüchte nid würkli intensiver gsi, als wie me's öfters in dr Schwiz au gseht. ...
Crossing the Border to Venezuela
... our bags in our room at Posada Guamanchi and ran across the street for dinner at a nice pizza place. So far, Venezuela had been a lot easier and cheaper in fact than advertised. Having to do tours to visit some of the big hitters (Angel Falls, Roraima, Los Llanos) will of course take a bite out of anyone´s budget, but living expenses seemed on par with Colombia and just slightly above the likes of Peru and Ecuador (at least when exchanging at the black market rate).
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Merida and the Andes
... sure I can get on the 10.30pm bus!
Today Eduardo and Carlos took me to the local outdoors market where they sell all the local produce, interesing experience. And I tried sugar cane juice with lemon, tasted like ice tea!
Eduardo is cooking octopus right now so will see what's that about? He also makes all sorts of cakes and pies and sell them locally. His apple pie tastes exactly like the stuff we eat in Poland! I don't really feel very creative today so hasta luego! :)
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Hills and More Hills
Today our adventure travel really began. Our group all assembled and we set of on the Carbonera Circuit (named for the family that owns the land, not the creamy bacon pasta sauce). We had a nice ~6.5 hour route through the Venezuelan Hills. And we realized that "flat" in Venezuela is a relative term, which seems to mean something less than a 15% grade, but usually uphill. After some long ...
Venezuela
... night as our dollars were running thin. We got up the next day and took a nightmarish bus ride to the 2nd largest city of Maracaibo where we shacked up for a night. The next day we left as we came in; by a border crossing taxi through a ****** border town in Venezuela to another ****** border town in Colombia. Bing was going to Cartagena and I was heading to a closer destination of Santa Marta. We said our goodbyes as we did to our experience in Venezuela, which was a very special ...
This hotel was formerly known as: El Serrano Merida


