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Travel Blogs from Ciudad Guayana
Welcome to the Revolution
... into a taxi for the border crossing.
I knew we were paying maybe $5 too much for the service and I didn't care as we needed to get to the airport pronto. Exit stamp from a slow moving, bored official at the Colombian office; entrance stamp for Venezuela in an office adorned with images of the president, Hugo Chavez. Welcome to the anti-imperialist, socialist revolution.
To get into ...
In the city puerto ordaz
... washed gold,......
well, this guy has so many stories to tell, that even the "toughest office employee" might think he is waisting time on earth.
the city itself was not very interesting for me. people are wealthy (of course not the indiginous people), lots of commercial, a rich town.
like in any other typical venezuelan town, houses have grades on ...
Oh no, no dinero
... to a point at which I could get out of the country if I needed to. I went por puesto to St Felix but ascertained there in a marathon session of incomprehension between me and three other people at the station that the earliest bus would be the next morning. I found a hotel and asked if I could exchange dollars, got a good rate - and only then realised that I ...
More fools
... industrial and transit town - the hotel I stayed at was on a road punctuated by garages and petrol stations. I was driven around town by a man called Vorlando, who stopped his car and I presumed to be a taxi driver (probably should have checked). It was only when heŽd driven me to a cheap hotel and a went to pay him that I realised not. There was a comedy / minor freak-out moment where he kept disappearing ...
Hot and humid
This city was just a transfer city so I didn't see much. Two gigantic rivers surround Puerto Ordaz, the river Orinoco and another one of which I forgot the name. The city itself is a union of Puerto Ordaz and Ciudad Guyana. But everybody today still calls each part their original name. It was quite humid and hot there, luckily not many ...
Other places to stay in Ciudad Guayana
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Hotel Venetur Orinoco
Avenida Guayana, Ciudad Guayana | 4 star hotelfrom $102 -
Mara Inn
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Hotel Rasil Puerto Ordaz
Centro Civico, Ciudad Guayana | Hotel -
Hotel Eurobuilding Guayana
Vda. UD 259 - Urb. Alta Vista , Ciudad Guayana | 1 star hotelfrom $309
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