Hotel La Terraza Merida

Av. Principal Los Chorros de Milla Merida, Andes, Venezuela

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Life at 4000 metres

A travel blog entry by celticewan

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... all talking really fast and with slang reminded me how far I have to go before fluency: I really didn¨t know what people were saying for most of the time! It would be like dropping a Japanese person who had been learning English in school right into the middle of a Scottish house party: they´de stand no chance! However, it was great practice listening to how the language is really spoken.

The trip itself was spectacular: the lake, the mountain ...

Merida and Los LLanos

A travel blog entry by james.tash

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... church built by Juan Felix Sanchez , and stopped off at the village of Los Nevados which overlooks the highest mountain in Venezuela, Pico Bolivar (5007m), which has some breathtaking scenery. Lunch was spent at a little restaurant overlooking the Andes, before driving down into the Barinas region at the base. We stopped off at a small market at the side of the road, were they were selling lots of different types of fruit, and we had a refreshing fruit salad ...

Venezuela

A travel blog entry by pimpc

... who is a god there (as well as in Colombia, but Venezuelan edges it out slightly) as every city has a Parque Central with a statue of him in the center. He is generally credited as the liberator of South America from the Spanish, while the majority of his conquests were in Venezuela. The currency is referred to as Bolivares, and Chavez has gone to great lengths to promote Bolivar as an icon through his left-wing writing and speeches as a basis for his own political movement. ...

First week in Merida and Catatumbo Lightning

A travel blog entry by upvoulns

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... 950;αχαρο ;πλαστέ&# 953;α-καφε_ 7;εία στα οποία μπορεί 62; να απολαύ 63;εις ζεστό καφέ με υπέροχ 49;ς λιχουδ 53;ές.
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Eurgh, I'm so hungover! Let's go canyoning!!

A travel blog entry by 218days

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... mere backpackers, but at only £5 a night each we had no reason to resist!

As there were four of us, we decided to start cooking for each other, and so over the next few days were treated to egg fried rice, chilli con carne and carbonara. It was a nourishing change, and I liked the family feel that eating around the table gave with relative strangers.

Having arrived on the Thursday (which is the new Friday, of course), dinner was followed with ...