Intercontinental Valencia

... the morning while watching a little green toucan preen, yawn, scratch itself, and take a drink of water from the plant growing on the branch (Pierre's note: this happens to be a grooved-billed toucanet. Not only is it an endemic species found only in Venezuela but also fairly difficult to find anywhere but where Cory was crunching away). There were birds in all colours, the most prevalent (the Swallow tanager) the same ...

Ik was gepakt en gezakt met een slaapzak om de nachtbus van Merida naar Valencia te kunnen trotseren maar wat bleek op die bus was het helemaal niet koud! ·s Morgens vroeg aangekomen in Valencia en direct de bus op naar Chichirivichi, Morrocoy National Park. Na een half uur met pak en zak te hebben rondgelopen kwam ik aan in een posada die niet open was. Met behulp van een local in andere posade terechtgekomen die gerund werd door een lieve oude spaanse man. Met een boot ben ik ...

OK we arrived here on a weekend , we got a couple hour bus , as it was a weekend it was full of youngsters, i know I'm not an old man but you know the annoying young ones (15-19) well the bus was full of them. There not too different too the young brats we have at home , loud a boozing away on the bus , at least i didn't understand a word they said.Oh and there was even one young one with the lovely kinda braided hair thing going on , with shades on. NOT ...

G´day, After a very interesting first night spent mostly at the Simon Boliviar Airport, Caracas due to car problems, we had a change of plan which saw us staying in Valencia with Alex´s parents for a couple of nights. It is now early morning and about to resume to orginal plan of heading to the Grand Savanah (2 days drive), I don´t know much about it but Alex and Emiro (Alex´s brother) say it is like nothing else. We will be camping for 6 ...

... in 45 minutes before. Crazy place. You have to give your name and cedula [Venezuelan ID] number every time you buy anything, even coffee. They track what everyone is buying all the time. Anyway, today I will be meeting with the committee the TEAM church is setting up to run an Emmaus ministry. The email contacts have been promising and they've already put a lot of work into ...

... stapled together. That afternoon we journeyed on to Valencia, Venezuela´s second city - but lacking the culture of Caracas. Home to some large industries (namely Polar - the beer), it is a huge and growing urban sprawl...but much more orderly than the capital. We stayed with a French/Venezuelan couple for the night (some of George´s friends), who took us to Las Trincheras (natural thermal baths) in the morning ...

nach einer etwas abenteuerlichen busfahrt durhc den henri pittier nationalpark nach ocumare und einer teuren taxifahrt an unser ziel, den strand von cuyagua sind wir am ziel. ein absolut traumhafter karibikstrand mit palmen, urlwald und genau so, wie man sich das eben vorstellt. nachdem wir unser zelt aufgestellt haben, gehen wir erstmal in meer. und das ...

... of towns at this time : Barquisimeto, Valencia then Porto Cabello, all in three days. I have the hotel with the jacuzzi in the bedroom in Porto Cabello, so the good restaurant was in Valencia. Well it's a little confuse. Again with Venezuela, it's not place for tourists, it's place to leave, with a lot of nice people...

... vi er langs kysten, som betyr at vi maa spise en del fisk, men vi klarer oss (selv om Malene ikke er saa glad i fisk). Men det aa vaere langs kysten er liksom noe man maa leve med om man vil vaere paa stranden... Vi driver naa et aldri saa lite puslespill for aa komme de plassene vi vil, vi har tross alt KUN to-tre uker igjen... Vi faar se hvordan det gaar, men det blir vel aldri nok, om man har aldri saa mange maaneder??

... was barely enough room for the bus in parts not to mention the other buses and cars coming in the opposite direction. It was our first time experiencing a three-point turn employed to negotiate a hairpin bend - the bends were literally 180 degrees and too narrow to fit through at the first attempt. Peurte Columbia is a nice fishing ...