Es By Hilton Valencia Downtown

... to go to the National Park Henri Pittier. This Venezuela's oldest park and covers just over a 1,000 sq kms of very rugged coastal mountains that plunge down to the Caribbean beach. Once again it is a very windy and narrow road that climbs to a height of 4,000 ft before dropping back down to sea level. Today when we went through we could not see very much because we had ...

... geraakt en een sjiek gebouw van een busmaatschappij Los LLanos binnengestapt om een directe verbinding met Santa Elena d·Uaren aan de grens met Brazilie te regelen. Dat is gelukt en nu zit ik daar: Na de derde buscontrole door de politie hebben ze me bijna laten staan want op mijn paspoort stond niet het aantal dagen dat ik in Venezuela zou blijven; Hopelijk geeft dit geen problemen aan de grens... Die busrit van 24u was niet echt te doen. Na 20u onderweg was de WC geur ...

... question. Eventually they got their power back , but the lady who i went too before had now no cash to give to me.So things were not as fun as they should have been. We were meant to go to a beach island but of course no money - no nothing. The next day my bill for my hotel of course had doubled so i was begging to get a bit worried , i would go too much but the little story ends by somebody telling me they don't need a code for my credit card , i go with ...

We had a full day yesterday. The ECS meeting was good with good interest. Nice lunch at this hugest mall I have ever seen and then a cup of coffee. Later after supper we were off for a 1:45 hour ride across town to prayer meeting at Angel and Esperanza Mora's. We did stop for the bus tickets on the way. Today we have to leave at 9am for the bus station to get a 10:30 bus. Have to ...

... at a make shift restaurant/hut owned by a lovely old woman for lunch. The village had only recently built a tarmac road connecting it to the beach (largely unnecessary because it is only a short walk anyway), and around it have spurted some cute wooden and palapa restaurants. The restaurant served as a house for the woman...it was a rancho...made of light metal roofing, wooden sticks, plastic bin liners and scraps of ...

... so leicht, also hier wirds auch um 7 dunkel. wir koennen dann nach eineinhalb-stuendiger taxifahrt bei einem freund des taxifarers, der im intercontinental hotel arbeitet, 50 dollar zu nem extrem schlechten kurs wechseln. das reicht fuer die taxifahrt und fuer ein zimmer in einem hotel das, naja, wohl eher fuer kuerzere aufenthalte also ...

Problem with the Cumana's machine, so I come here with Delys to help her with one of her system. It's a small town, for Venezuela. The hotel was very good, even if I don't remenber the name. I ate there one of the best dish of my life, a duck with orange, cooked in front of me. Que bueno. Well, in fact i'm not sure. I do a ...

... er naa paa plass i en liten fiskerlandsby med nydelige strender - har funnet oss et bra sted aa bo, og det er relativt billig. I tillegg virker folk trivelige. Eneste minuset er den sor-amerikanske trenden med aa kaste soppelet alle andre steder enn i sopla. Men, dette er som sagt en sor-amerikansk trend, og gjelder ikke bare Venezuela Dette med at det er billig er alltid relativt. Hugo sjol har laast bolivarene ...

... sehenswert, sehr schoene straende und drumherum cloud forest in den andenauslaeufern, ist schon verrueckt wie schnell sich hier das klima aendert! und da der rum hier so billig und gut ist, kann er pur getrunken werden und das wird natuerlich die letzten tage die ich in venezuela bin noch kraeftig ausgenutzt...

... is crystal clear though. Back to the hostel some others have bumped into 2 people who were on a previous Dragoman trip with them and are joining the next leg of ours (from Caracas to Manaus). They are also Brits and have had a pretty tough time in Venezuela on their own apparently being overcharged for example. They are going to travel back with us to Caracas. We have spag bol made for us by some of the group which is fab. Next day is free so we decide to go to the port area ...