Hotel El Castillo de San Ignacio
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Venezuelan women are all women
... and open chap, open in an American way. He spoke fluent Spanish and told me about his upbringing (as Americans tend to do). He was trying to organise a couch-surfing meet-up party for the following night.
After a few beers we bumped into a guitarist in a local jazz band; a big, gregarious, black guy (whose name escapes me). After Ivo hit him up for a gig, he entertained us with local stories (about when he jumped out of his ...
Mérida, Venezuela
... han i mi denn irgendwie nüm so 100% wohl gfühlt. Ich ha ziemlich schlächt gschloofe, offebar het sich d'Höhechrankheit chli bemerkbar gmacht. Mir sind denn uf 4'800 m ufgschtiege, wo sich d'Bärgstation "Pico Espejo" vo dr Seilbahn - die höchschti Seilbahnstation vo dr Wält - befindet. Dört hän mer d'Zält, s'Ässe etc. zrugg-gloh und sind mit em Chlättergrümpel wyter. Ich ha mi ...
To the beach and back
... this fact by seeing if Lonely Planet could score twice in one day by going to a bar it recommended. We thought at first it was going to be a short visit when we saw a sign advertising beer for 30 bolivars (about £5) until we realized that was for a bucket of 20 beers in ice. We ended up doing a bit of a crawl between 3 bars in the area and had a fantastic night showing the locals and the gringo students (who had come out of the woodwork from somewhere - ...
Solid Climbing Day
We traded bikes for boots today and did a ~18km hike up a mountain that separated two valleys. The walk was quite nice as we had horses following us to carry any additional supplies (like water) the group needed. The initial sections were pretty gentle (Venezuelan flat) and very beautiful, ...
Aktivurlaub in Merida
... Dach geschnallt. Den ersten Stop haben wir in San Rafael, einem kleinen Bergdorf in den Anden eingelegt. Dort steht die Steinkapelle von Juan Felix Sanchez. Nach kurzem Aufenthalt ging es weiter zur Berglagune Mucubaji auf 3.600m Höhe. Auch hier haben wir nur einen kurzen Stop eingelegt und sind dann bis zum Mittag weiter nach Barinitas. Dort gab es dann Mittag und wir haben unseren eigentlichen Guide & Fahrer Juan getroffen.
Mit Juan ging es nach dem ...
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