Hotel Ribot Caracas

... of the pool wasn't still; a distinct current forced you to make an effort to move forward. And the closer we came to the rock face the stronger the current became. Suddenly Alex and the Pemón guide turned a corner and disappeared into a cleft in the rock. My first thought was that they were hiding and would jump out and try to scare us. A minute later we followed and realized they had entered a narrow slot canyon, a vertical slit in the rock that disappeared out of sight over ...

... to get hugged when none of their friends were watching Being amazed at how patient they were with us trying to speak Spanish, and Seeing them all try and beat eachother at everything from eating the quickest to scoring goals on the football field It´s hard to really describe how good the 4 weeks with them was but Dave and I will always remember this time. So did it change our lives as Dave predicted. Si!

... bus running to Maracaibo, the second largest city to Caracas, which looked awful and very polluted, so decided to try and get straight to the Columbian border. We got a shared taxi which took 4 hours to get to Maicao just across the border and then managed to catch the last bus (by 5 minutes) on to Santa Marta. Very tired we got a taxi to a hostel and breathed a massive sigh of relief. Too much public transport in 24 hours.

... eifach viel viel ziit naeh. D'elisa und de Luis haend mich mit es paar sache bekannt gmacht. Mir haend inere chline Herberge (ateneo popular) ubernachtet mit ganz viel anderne reisende (hauptsaechlich duetschi, komicherwiis). ACHTUNG Ich weiss noed, ob ihr das gwuesst haend, aber da z'venezuela chunnt mer kei US-Dollar ueber uf de Bank. Das heisst, de Dollar gits nur ufem Schwarzmaert z'chaufe. Aber die ...

... educate people about the proposed changes. She also spoke about the amount of false information circulating in the press...I also noticed that everyone on the street had an opinion. An old woman walked past and started shouting at the young lady in the tent, saying that she was voting "No". Rafael was talking about the numerous manifestations he had been present at...as an observer. He was down the street from the shootings in April 2002 (the Coup d`etat), and kept on ...

... a jdu rychle bojovat na check-in aby me prebukovali do jineho letadla nez vsechna odleti. Prej bez obav, moje letadlo esta llegando (prave pristava) ..no jen aby nepristavalo celej den a me nefrnklo letadlo do Frankfurtu. Behem nekolika minut nas fakt zenou ven na letistni plochu ....nechce se mi verit ze by tak rychle neco mohlo priletet a byt pripraveno k odletu...zahy se vysvetluje, proc tak malo lidi a proc se me nikdo neptal, jestli okenko nebo ulicka...na plose stoji dva ...

... finally there is Brad. Brad is a stupid *********ing red neck from Ohio who can kiss my ass. For some reason, he has decided to be a prick to me. If he doesn't like me, I don't see why he can't just stay away from me. Instead he goes out of his way to be rude, and make comments about every thing I say, even though he is never actually the person I am addressing when I talk. Good news: he is only on this small leg of the trip and he will be out of my ...

When somebody asks me where I was during the England vs. Portugal quarter final of World Cup 2006 I will be able to launch into a very interesting story about a shopping mall in Caracas. We arrived back from Merida on the overnight bus with around 2 hours to spare before the start of the England game. After a quick shower and a well-deserved change of clothes, we headed out to the Centro San Ignacio in Caracas, an extremely popular place to watch the world cup games. They had set up a ...

Back at Canaima Lagoon I faced more delays in getting my place from Canaima airport back to Puerto Ordaz and was worried further by a couple of English guys I met back at camp who had been stranded there for 2 days not being able to get a flight out! However, being a woman on her own it{s amazing what you can achieve when you put your mind to it ;)..... I was soon outa there and back in time for my connection into Caracas. The woman on her own card is really useful... you get ...

... bring to Australia. You must understand that none of these guys have every gone outside Venezuala and most are quite poor so they are intrigued by our stories and are incredibly excited ! After spending many hours in the sweltering shop, it was time for Jose' and myself to talk business with the owner as he had many things to sell us. The next day, one of the magicians (Jesus his name was) took me to the largest mall in Caracas, they love their American malls ...