Hotel Centro Lido Caracas
Av. Tamanaco, Centro Lido, El Rosal Caracas, Central Venezuela, 1070, Venezuela
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Keeping Safe In Caracas.
... the manager at our booked hotel spoke English!
Our 24 hour bus trip to Caracas from Cartagena, Colombia was not without dramas though. The border crossing went smoothly enough, then around 6 passport checks after the border went without any incident. However, we were a couple of hours out of Caracas, when some sort of commotion ensued on the bus, with a lady quite upset and hassling, (then bribing) the driver to make a phone call. Some time later we ...
In and out of Caracas
... a 45 minute ride to the terminal. This was a significant savings from the price of a taxi to the airport (150 bolivars).
At the terminal, we quickly found the Chapi Air tiny office and confirmed the price for the day we wanted to travel. The airport is one of the places you can exchange money, so we found a nice guy willing to give us the price we wanted and quickly traded our dollars for bolivars to pay for the plane tickets. Guide books warn against exchanging at ...
A new journey in Caracas, Venezuela
... with the locals because the music was so loud that I couldn´t really understand what was being said. Plus, when Latin American people get excited, they talk muy rapido (very fast).
Today we are going to walk along one of the beaches. It is a bit windy and cool. I know, no sympathy given the cold weather you are experiencing in Regina!!
I likely will ...
Venezuelaaaaaaaaaa!
... first experience: a large concrete hall for immigration with a "Wester Hailes Shopping Centre" (sorry to non-Edinburghers reading this as they won´t get the reference) floor, and staff who barely glanced at my carefully filled out visa form. Let alone then, even now I´m not sure if I have a proper visa or not! I guess I´ll find out in due course...
The hall also had massive banners with pictures of people, activities and buildings, and descriptions ...
End of the trip
After two months of traveling my adventure reached its end! From Caracas I took my flight to Chicago. It was really sad to feel that I'm leaving South America. It has been wonderful to travel through Colombia and Venezuela, visiting cities, small towns, mountains, valleys, jungles, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, parks and islands, and experiencing pristine nature. But most of all the people I met made this trip special and unforgettable. I had to say ...



