Hotel Paramo La Culata Merida

... rivers which had jumping pirahanas. We had quite a few jump into the boat and Allan (our guides) advice was to get your feet up.. so we did. At one time I was sitting next to Luke who had a full grown pirahana jump right into his lap.. needless to say he was up in a heart beat. I had one jump and hit me smack bang in the foot as I had my feet up trying to keep them away from one that was already in the boat. Getting hit by one is supposedly good luck as well so ...

... hopes were raised of a way round following a conversation with some Germans in our hostel. Some of the posadas in town have European bank accounts, you transfer what you want to change into them from your own account and they will give you the black market rate. I can't name the posadas as I think it isn't all above board but if you ask around people will point you in the right direction. Unfortunately it takes three working days to clear and they don't give you ...

... a week) is a very interesting and beautiful country. Baseball is more popular than soccer, billboards with the smiling mug of Mr. Hugo saying socialism or death abound and she has the most American products and fast food I have seen in any south American country. This final observation seems strange considering the anti US rhetoric that emerges from the government that has gone as far as changing their official time by half an hour ...

... for a while, being careful not to exert myself and get sick, taking dozens of pictures. However after an hour and a half stumbeling around we decided it was time to head back down as we were all getting sleepy. We needed food! haha. We all got very fatuiged so quickly and nearly fell asleep on the way down. Last time I felt like this was when I ascended Jungfrau in the Swiss Alps. However this place isnt quite as spectacular as the Alps, but ...

... some of the weeds etc etc). After a really interesting conversation about socialism, Chavez and the missions, they both invited me to stay over in their house...which was about a 30 min walk from the village. Los Nevados itself is tiny, made up of 2 or 3 streets nestled around a church on a hill. Scattered and spread out around the village were various farm houses and plots of land. After a steep climb along the mountain, we reached Olge´s house...a ...

... so puffed and yet not broken a sweat. Low impact exercise on the body but high impact exercise for the lungs. I hadn't been feeling very well and I found the walk really tough. The local man and his dog didn't think so. He was yelling like a coyote from the summit (Venezuelans are into making strange noises) and the dog was running around all over. The clouds closed in soon after we hit the saddle and it got really cold, but it was a really pretty alpine walk with ...

... with them for two hours and they even stopped off along the way insisting that we take some photos. Back in town we headed out for a great dinner and Carly sampled her first vegetarian empananda and Garvo had a bizarre but tasty looking sandwich which was made from mashed banana fried and then filled with some spicy vegetables apparently called tostones. Taking advantage of our cable TV, we headed back to the room to catch some of the football.

... they have cows there.¨ ¨Cows!!! On stilts?¨ ¨Yeah, I even bought some cheese.¨ ¨How was it?¨ ¨It was good, they do it nice there.¨ What? Now I`m completely blown away. Not only do these people have cows pasteurizing in the backyards of their stilted houses, but they're making nice cheese? How do they do anything nice there, they´re on stilts for Christ´s sake. And what are these cows thinking, exactly? Years go by, they´re ...

Mit 100% adventure program fortsaetter i byen Merida. Merida Er en universitetsby, der ligger oppe i Andesbjergene. Den er utrolig moderne med masse unge mennesker. Byen er ogsaa kendt for at vaere en adventureby. (Der er ogaa varmt vand yahh). Temperaturen er en del koldere end i Chichi. Lidt som dansk sommer. Okay varmt om dagen men helt vildt koldt om aftenen. Fredag morgen efter en uge med dykning tog vi afsted fra Chichi med kurs mod Merida. Vores nyindkoebte ...

... Andrea said she was feeling quite nervous as she got kitted up, but didn´t seem to shaky. She went up first, and I then followed soon after. We flew for much longer this time, and the afternoon sunlight streaming down the valley as we soared made for a vista that I will surely remember forever. TeamAndrea was much higher than TeamJulian, and we seemed to be struggling to gain height as quickly as they were. "We are too 'eavy" said my instructor Phillipe ...