Hotel Espanol Merida

... 2 liter bottle of water is $.70! Can you believe that it is cheaper to fill your car's tank than it is to have a drink of water! So crazy. I don't understand it! You can imagine that this means EVERYONE drives around here. There are cars everywhere for such a tiny place. I think in a few years the pollution in Venezuela is going to be horrific ...

... lying savannah plains of Los Llanos are all available. We thought about doing Los Llanos but as we did the Pantanal in Brazil, which is similar, so we decided against it, but most people we spoke to that have done it thougt it was incredible - they even saw Anacondas, which might be a reason in itself to go, or not. One of the great things about Merida is that it has an ice-cream shop, Heladeria Coromoto, that holds the world record for number of flavours, nearly 1 ...

... meteorological phenomenon, so I included below a link to a website that talks about it. The most interesting and important fact about Catatumbo however is that this phenomenon alone is responsible for about 3% of the annual ozone production on earth and therefore can be considered as one of the main individual regenerators of the ozone layer on the planet. Fascinating, ain't it. It was a bizarre (but not necessary unpleasant ...

... on a months vacation. We bordered some strangers 4WD that offered us accomodation, but once we saw it, we definitely wanted to head else where, so she drive us to the other hostels that were pretty much small houses diveded up in small rooms for travelers such as myself. We paid the lady 10,000 Bolivares for taking us and checked into the Posada Paty. The door ways were really low and narrow, in the middle section the roof disapeared letting the ...

... nicely for my birthday on the 4th and the hostel is right near Copacobana beach. I somehow have to get to the Angel Falls (Venezuela) for the 3 day trip, then see as much of northern Brazil (including an Amazon trip) within 2 weeks (highly unlikely) then fly to Rio for the festivities. Something's going to have to sacrificed along the line somewhere. Jan 9th Merida (Sigh) been feeling a bit tired and illin lately and waking up this morning I realised I had a cold (really bad timing ...

... full from the night before and a little tired we pulled out our A game and it was well worth it as Homero's family made us feel so welcome had served up a great spread of food. We were introduced to Homero's gran who is 71 and looks great for her age and her recipe for success is to drink, eat and be merry. It was not long before the boys we back on the beers but according to Homero's gran you would have to drink 30 Solero ...

... Day, some of the other guys hung Dr Green Thumb (that was my idea for a name for the frog and I won the name contest) from the ceiling on a noose as a joke (but they also did the same thing to Pinkie, my dog shaped pillow). Mike is my cooking buddy and the night we cooked the others kept telling us we should just be the permanent cooks for the group. I wouldn't mind, as long as I never have to do dishes. Tom: Perverted old man from Portland area ...

... to Houston by the time we got to the airport. If there was a crucial flight in all our journey that we should not have missed, that was the one. And we missed it, with flying colours! We were going from Caracas to Los Angeles to Fiji in one day and we missed all those flights. Stan, being the sorter outer and fixer that he is, managed to fix it all though and re planned our schedule by changing all the necessary flights. The only damage done, was 150 USD ...

Venezuela....wow, saa skete det endelig Sikke en rejse her over. Intet gik helt som forventede. Gruppen fra Danmark moedtes i Lufthavnen kl. 06.45 hvor jeg sagde farvel til min familie... Allerede fra starten var der problemer, da vores fly til Frankfurt var 45min forsinket. Det gav nogle ekstra nerver, da vi efter planen kun havde 50 min til at skifte fly mod Caracas. Og vi ...

... ll town possibly c*lled L* S*b*n* (our tour guide v*nished for * while to * different jeep *nd our driver spoke no english) where we s*w * museum of sculpture of c*rved wood *nd found m*teri*ls. All the pieces h*d politic*l themes, some *s simple *s "don't drink coc* col*, it's b*d for you!" *nd some much more complic*ted *nd revolved *round intern*tion*l politic*l figures *nd historic*l *rguments, quite interesting *nd pretty much incomprehensible through two l*yers of tr*nsl ...