Hotel Mintoy Merida
Calle 25 8-130 Merida, Andes, 5101, Venezuela
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Don't Go Out At Night
... the warnings by not venturing out of the hotel at night. The manager of the hotel had told us when we checked in that the area was not safe to walk around after about 8pm and maybe if we had ignored his advice, things might have been different. We now saw goodbye to Spanish speaking countries as we finish off the trip with a couple of weeks in Brazil.
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Merida and Los LLanos
... us. .
The evening was spent eating meat from a cow killed that day and watching a local singing and playing guitar while his little son used maracas and started the Tradicional Joropo dance and music).
After an uncomfortable night (for Tash) in the hammock we awoke early and travelled by sitting on top of the jeep – avoiding overhanging branches, some with thorns - to the river Caņo Guaratico where we boarded our dugout canoe for a water ...
Macuto, the Teleferico, and Parque Nacional Avila
... huge cup or strawberries, peaches, and cream. A wonderful afternoon. When we started feeling a little chilled we went to find the jeeps to take us back down. Off to the side of the main building we found them. Lineups of 4x4īs taxiing people down the mountain. We hopped into one that took us to a little village where we had to transfer into another heading to Macuto. We had to wait for it to fill but it was fine, it gave us the opportunity to walk around the village. The ride down ...
Venezuela - Caracas and Merida
... surrounding it, but I was somewhat disappointed to find out that the world's longest cable car, the Teleferico, was still broken as of this writing. I did walk to the base of it and watched the engineers testing a car but was told it is still closed to the public. The cable car, however, was not Merida's only superlative, there is also a Guiness book of world records ice cream shop that supposedly has somewhere in the vicinity of 900 flavors. They probably had about 300 on ...
Well its no Bariloche!
... at least it gives us plenty of time.
Anyway I'm waffling. We decided to walk the 2 or so kilometers back to the posada to see a little more of the city and it does seem nice enough. Although it would never appeal to me to just walk around the way that Bariloche would! We were looking for the shop that is in the Guinness Book of Records for the most amount of ice cream flavours but since we had no guidebook, were not sure of its name and no real idea where it should ...


