Hotel Resort La Sierra Merida

It's been a while since we have said hello, so I will divide the entry into two blogs. We are currently resting in Merida after a couple of weeks of almost non-stop activity. After a 30 hour trip from Ciudad Guayana, we arrived in Merida late in the evening and in the middle on Carnaval and Festival of the Sun (oops!). This university town nestled in the Andes was hopping! This is a vacation destination for locals during this timeframe, and we were ...

... we paid for everything by credit card, which would have been really bad as they add on between 8% and 14% for every transaction. The other problem would have been that many places, including the bus companies only take cash. Anyway, we have had to swallow it and move on. The cash machines also ask for the first or last 2 digits of your personal identification code, it took us a while to work out that this meant passport number for foreigners and citizen number for ...

... a few cities and towns I eventually reached my destination of Merida. A town nestled at the foot of the final anchor of the mighty Andean mountain chain. The town itself was a bit of a disappointment, save the world famous ice cream shoppe with 900 flavours (a Guiness record, I had a triple scoop of beer, hamburger and tuna. Yup absolutely disgusting), but the surrounding area was great, filled with more alpine splendor. I ...

... donut! (Jas, no chocolate donuts match Aussie ones). A bunch of highschool kids were there that got all giddy from our presents which we couldnt stop laughing at, they couldnt of been older than 14. Its just the fact that we look different to everyone else here. Venezuela is full of deep fried foods, especially Caracas, that seems to have only that. Merida thankfully has a bit more of a variety. We all planned on drinking tonight, so we ...

... houses, sweeping hillsides and a handful of pigs, cows and mules every half kilometre or so. After an hour and a half we finally arrived at the tiny village of Los Nevados. We stayed in a large but rustic posada,as guest houses are called, which included breakfast and dinner in the price and had, the best thing after a long day walking, hot, hot water. At dinner we met a young family who live in a small sailboat. They love to travel so the idea appealed, but they ...

... of us was feeling much better so our plans were put on hold until manana! It was a bit of **** day for us both.... 24th October 2007 - Day 135 Feeling slightly better we headed up the Teleferico which is the world's highest and longest cable-car and sad to say was built by le Froggies. We queued to get our tickets and were informed that our attire of flip flops, shorts and T-shirts ...

... middle of a peaceful lake, only to have some ******* move next door and host jamming parties all night. You´re left shaking your fist at him from across the lake, ¨I said turn that music down ******mit!¨ Then, I notice another problem with lake life. Me: ¨Who built their house first,¨ pointing at the place directly in front of us, obscuring some of the lightning, ¨Omar or that guy?¨ Ingrid: (just laughs) But I want an answer ...

... fortsatte turen. Da vi kom til Andesbjergne, maatte vi dog skifte til en bus, da jeepen ikke kunne komme op med os som ekstra laes. Naaede Merida loerdag aften. Nogle tog i byen andre sov (mig). Naeste dag forloeb stille og roligt. Vi legede turister i byen og besoegte bla. en isbod med verdensrekort i flest forskellige is. Fik en vaffel med Anisis, valnoedis, polaris (venezualensk oel) og hvisloegsis. Smagte ogsaa skinke og ostis og spagetti med koedsovsis ...

... Or do it again ever, for that matter. But we both agreed that it had been a wonderful experience. Our work was done in Merida, bar a trip to the ice cream shop with more flavours than any other in the world (apparently it´s in the Guinness Book of Records). We met up with Adrian, our friend from earlier in the week, and stepped into the record books. They had 3000 or so flavours listed on the wall, but only a few tens of flavours available, so I´m not quite ...