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Hotel Altamira Caracas

Avenida Jose Felix Sosa Caracas, Central Venezuela, 1020, Venezuela

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Black markets and the venezuelan driver.

A travel blog entry by ashstmartin

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So, up early at 7am, in Barcelona, to catch the 855am flight to Madrid, and then onto South america, and specifically , Venezuela. After a seemingly short 9 hour flight, and 2 lots of aeroplane ´food´, we arrived in Caracas, Venezuelas capital, at 5pm, local time. Once through customs and collecting out rucksacks, Karolina, my polish friend …

The most stressful 3 days of our lives!

A travel blog entry by james.tash

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After a days travelling (Bonaire - Curacao - Bogota - Caracas) we eventually arrived at Caracas airport at midnight. As we were coming through the departure gates we were instantly bombarded by shifty looking men claiming to be taxi drivers trying to 'help' us with our bags. After getting rid of them we found a reasonably legit guy who changed our …

Paranoid in Caracas # 1

A travel blog entry by jennifer.locke

Left La Paz, Bolivia first thing in the morning, heading to Venezuela via Lima, Peru. Took a taxi with Katja and Steffi as they were also leaving on a flight to Ecuador. The flight from La Paz was fairly quick and easy.  Had a few hours break at Lima Airport, and remembered that you can withdrawn US dollars from the ATM at the airport, so decided …

Letter From Caracas

A travel blog entry by pchun88

Hello All, As some of you already know, I am out traveling through South America this summer. I write to you from my first stop in Caracas, Venezuela. Here is my first impression: I´m not sure if God truly blessed America, but I can say that God did bless Venezuela with some lovely looking ladies. But then again, I´ve said that about all …

It's enough to drive you Caracas......

A travel blog entry by richandjoanna

When planning our trip, we decided to spend as little time in Caracas as possible, perhaps unfairly, due to the city's bad reputation. We were here primarily for one thing: to catch our flight to Quito, Ecuador.

We arrived into Caracas by bus and then took a taxi to the 3 star Hotel Altamira (not to be confused with the 5 star Hotel …