Embassy Suites Caracas

Caracas the second time around didn´t seem nearly as bad as my brief taste of it a few weeks ago. This time the bus from Maracay arrived at the other (western) terminal, which is much nicer than the eastern one. It´s in a slightly dodgy area of town, which apparently isn´t safe to walk around in after dark (it´s right by one of the barrios/favel...

01 July 2009
Hotel Catimar, Maquetia, Caracas,
Venezuela
Air con is on but if it were up to me
it wouldn't be



Firstly, I must explain and apologise
about the lack of capitals you will experience reading this blog.
our little ASUS has taken a real t...

Time to move on once more so we have to go back over the same high and windy road, although this time there is much less fog. There is supposed to be a nature walk near the university buildings at the top of the hill, although we can find the buildings they are all padlocked and we cannot find a walk so we just carry on and head towards Caracas,...

skip to main | skip to sidebar LEVITRANSPORTACIÒN lunes 16 de junio de 2008 LEVITRANSPORTACIÓN Albert Einstein dijo: "Las mentes son como los paracaídas; sólo funcionan, cuando están bien abiertas." 1. Los autos viajarían a 250m. del suelo, mientras las casas u hogares estarían a 400m del suelo terrestre. Sobre los techos de las casas y los carr...

The plane left Lima, crossed the Equator somewhere over the Columbian jungle, and landed in Venezuela at around tea-time. After Peru, Caracas feels like a smack in the mouth. Every journey has its low point, and I think I found mine at about 7 o`clock on Sunday night in Caracas, Venezuela (but there`s over 20,000 miles to go before I get home, a...

Isla Margarita si svou image nikdy nezlepsila. Dalsi plaz, kterou jsme si nejak nechali vnutit taxikarem (pac neznal tu, kterou jsem puvodne vybrala ja) byla strategicky umistena mezi letistem a pristavem. Nad hlavami svistela letadla, na plazi auta a bordel, ve vode oblibene zelene rostlinstvo. Tady aspon bylo shlukle do velkejch chomacu, takze...

Just b4 leaving Peru, i checked a fellow backpackers guide and the internet, and discovered that there arent really any backpackers in Caracas....thats a bit strange! So I wrote down the address and ph numbers of the 4 cheapest places I could find (which werent that cheap), hopped on the plane, and landed in the int airport near Caracas. Right o...

Ladies and Gentlemen! Welcome to the grand final of the great South American face off, where 2 of the continent's finest go head to head over 15 rounds to decide the winner of the inaugural SnSGoWest continental championship. (conveniently ignoring the fact that we only went to 2 countries) In the Green corner, the home of the great leftist Chav...

As the plane flies into Caracas airport, the sun is descending into the Carribean sea in a vast red-orange fireball. We see palm trees, vegetation covered hillsides, and dark rainclouds in the sky. It seems like a suitably dramatic arrival. We are a couple of days earlier than originally scheduled since we decided not to dwell in the unattractiv...