Hospedaje La Florida Merida

... br>variety. So we hand over our 150 bfs and return at 6pm to get on the
7pm bus. We had to pay an extra 30 bfs for each of the bikes and to
take the wheels off in order to stash them in the luggage hold.
lucky for us, the 20 or so English backpackers with HUGE packs that
turned up just in front of us were NOT going to Merida, otherwise we
might have had a problem.



Then we met Juno, what a character!
Juno is no ...

... a busy pub on a friday night than a shop where everyone just pushes in to be served first. Awesome. So we just did as the others did and got out of there! Anyway, we found a great little place for dinner and had local varieties of chicken (carne blanco) and steak (carne tinto) and some local wine (vino tinto). Had an early night as our Los Llanos adventure begins at 8am the next morning (Ianīs birthday)...

... it could have happened. We arrive in Mérida and get a taxi to the Posada before we loose anymore money. Eli has left a message as we were too late to call to the tour office that we travel tomorrow. Thats one thing off our to-do list. The next is a trip to the police station where, with difficulty, we make our report and get our print out for the insurance. Its all a learning experience, I tell myself. It would have been easier if the ...

... is nestled in the valley with a natural landscape writhing with dense vegetation of greens and splashes of color dangling from trees in the form of flowers, seed pods and fruit, and throw in a bird or two. Farms and villages give a grounding to the otherwise extraordinary paradise. We thought to stay awhile and celebrate one of our birthdays here, but admiring from atop was enough and so onward we press to a posada at the top ...

... movies, started with Black Hawk Down dubbed in Spanish. They did turn it off eventually but until way after midnight. Then at 5am we arrived at Maracabio bus terminal only to jump straight on another bus to take us the 5 hours to the border. After numerous police checks, an easy border crossing and another bus journey we arrived in Santa Marta completely exhausted, but with a new friend Anthony from Germany with us.

... it (boy was that a bad idea). I'm writing this days blog just before catching the long bus trip (on a double decker bus apparently) because I don't know when the next chance to upload it will be. Until the 16th I will be somewhere in the jungle wow'ing at the Angel Falls. The plan after the falls is to head south through the Amazonian jungle and into Brazil where I'll be doing some jungle trips and a boat ride north on the Amazon. After that its going to be a mad dash to get to Rio for 30th January.

... not suitable for the summit of Pico Bolivar but after our night on the freezing bus we were ready to face the elements. We were lucky enough to get in a cable-car full of Venezuelan students that were all clad in their matching Merida hats, scarves, gloves and coats and far too excited and spent the entire journey screaming! At the top we were like celebrities with people asking if they ...

... Sara and I were in the Bolivian jungle, our guide woke us up early to take us to the perfect spot to watch the sunrise. A group of us, just parked on the water, enjoying nature as we waited. It was peaceful, monkeys and birds stirred in the trees, our cameras were primed for amazing photos, when out of nowhere, another groupīs boat entered the picture. We were all watching it, wondering just what their driver was doing ...

... meget ulaekkert. Om aftenen var vi i biografen... Mandag stod i Mountain bike tegn, det vil sige en shoppingdag for mit vedkomne. Om aftenen besoegte vi de 6 personer fra vores gruppe, som arbejder og bor i Merida i denne maaned. Tirsdag var min foerste adventuredag. Vi var ude og lave canyoning. Canyoning er rapelling i vandfald. En super fed oplevelse men ogsaa en vaad og kold oplevelse da vi vadede rundt i en flod og vandfald i 4 timers tid. Onsdag morgen tog ...

Ahhh feeling very chilled out and Caracas feels like a bad dream now. This is our Third day in Merida and the initial good vibes that we experienced on our first day havenīt diminished. After arriving we popped out to a nearby pizza place whose walls were covered with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Sth America is permanently stuck in the eighties). And like true brits abroad we went to the local offy to stock up on beer and liquor for the week. We ...