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Travel Blogs from Merida
Something of the sort
This town was close to Tucacas, but on the other side of the 'national park' What national park?
The town was packed with holiday goers and prices went on the rise. Boats to the islands were jacked up to ridiculous prices which we could not afford well money we dont want to spend going to an island with 10000 other Venezuelans.
The diving …
Venezuelan women are all women
Blanca, sweet Blanca; we spent a never-ending, sleepless flight together on an Iberian rust-bucket from Madrid to Caracas. Was it coincidental that a beautiful Latino girl sat next to me on the plane or were the rumours true; that Venezuela has some of the most beautiful women in the world?
Caracas airport turned out to be, not just a world-renowned crime hub surrounded by urban myth and terror, but also a hotbed of Venezuelan ...
Mérida, Venezuela
... Guide mache und drum, damit's nid allzu tüür wird, au als Gruppe. Allerdings het's nid würkli viel anderi Lüt gha, wo grad öppis ähnlichs im Sinn gha händ. Schliesslich han ich mi denn dr Belgierin Nele agschlosse, wo uf e knapp 5'000 m hochi Pico Bolívar het welle. Das isch dr höchscht Bärg vo Venezuela, dr Trek duurt 4 bis 6 Täg, und beinhaltet im obere Teil chli Fels- und ...
To the beach and back
... buy any. Eventually, we arrived in Merida which while beautifully set in a valley surrounded by looming mountains on all sides was a much bigger and more sprawling city than we had been expecting and, again, utterly devoid of tourists of any kind as far as we could tell. Bizarre. It probably didn’t help that the much vaunted “World’s Highest Cable Car" that whisks you up to 4,765m was closed for re-building work - and has been for 3 years. All ...
My Name is Juan
... being played in the bar with me, Waoter (from Belgium) and Maike belting out the words amongst a group of bemused Venezuelans. The low lights were three of us having our jackets nicked while we were dancing, and the overall result of the night being one night too many: thus since Tuesday I've had something between a sore throat and a fever than only today has begun to reduce it's grip.
So I've spent most of the last few days resting, suffering my way through Spanish ...