Hotel Espanol Merida

Av. 2 N0 15-48 Merida, Andes, Venezuela

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Jacobs Cream Caracas

A travel blog entry by jameshopkinson

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... were the pick of the bunch to be honest. I'm sure he'd agree with that too.

Friday 5th August

First task of the day was to change enough money, American Dollars, to pay our airport taxes. We met up with a chap we'd met the previous day to change some money. The best rate we'd had up to this point was 8 B.F.'s to the pound and we were getting offered 9 or 10. Jackpot! We worked out that we needed $80 changing between the three of us. The guys who wanted our ...

Merida and Los LLanos

A travel blog entry by james.tash

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The bus to Merida (a relaxed University town in the Andes) took a lot longer than exepcted (14hours in total!) and as it climbed higher towards the Andes the weather got wetter and the clouds lower. Eventually we arrived at Posada Yagrumo in the centre of Merida at about midday. As it was raining and the clouds were so low we couldnīt see the other side of the street, we decided to relax in the posada for the rest of the afternoon. That evening we went for a lovely meal ...

The most stressful 3 days of our lives!

A travel blog entry by james.tash

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... lady helped us out and James managed to call Natwest. Infuriatingly we found out his card hadnīt been blocked at all and we had wasted precious time. We then had a mad dash to the bus garage to try and get our bus to Ciudad Bolivar - but we had just missed it and the next one wasnīt until 8.30pm! So we then has a 7 and a half hour wait in the bus garage... funnily enough this turmed into our best afternoon in Caracas so far as ...

Venezuela - Caracas and Merida

A travel blog entry by nomadic1

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... hotels I emailed about reservations simply never responded. Needless to say I was a little on edge during the three hour flight from Miami to Caracas.

But like so many times in my travels, I got lucky. One of the last passengers to board the plane was an American fellow named Ken who was seated in the emergency exit row next to me. About half way through the flight we started talking. He told me he was married to a Venezuelan woman and had been living in Venezuela for the past ...

Well its no Bariloche!

A travel blog entry by conorandalicia

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... the best time for leaving for the cable car, maybe early morning? After a whole spiel about his favourite time to go he informed me that it has been shut for a year and a half for maintenance and does not plan to reopen for at least another 2 years! However, it has been kept on the hush hush as Venezuela does not want to lose tourists to the area!! Gutted! Okay, so instead we will find an Internet cafe and get the pictures uploaded onto the skydrive because the ...