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To the beach and back
... painted all different colours, had a small pool and two outdoor jacuzzis and speakers spread all around the garden playing an album that we think must have been called '80s Hits You Never Wanted to Hear Again’. At night, the owner lit up flame torches all over the garden and turned on laser light and smoke machines around the jacuzzis. We kid you not.
Puerto Colombia itself was fairly non-descript and grotty and once again very quiet and ...
Life at 4000 metres
... free of course), and today turned up at one of the local clinics (ambulatorio) with my fellow expats for my vaccination. The centre was part of the new health service that has been created here by the Chavez-led government (it was a CDI, a secondary level health clinic, part of the ´Barrio Adentro social health mission launched in 2002-3). Basically, it was amazingly well organised, clean, professional and efficient, and there was even a bi-lingual member of ...
Merida and Los LLanos
... we both never caught anthing others had more luck and we were demonstrated the sharpness of the teeth as Ken held a leaf between a particularly big ones jaws and it was pierced instantly. After this we rode horses back to camp. James was particularly disapointed at how short this journey was as it was supposed to be a horse safari and have he had known would have preferred to continue fishing for piranha. The horse he had was very stubborn and refused to trott ...
Venezuela
... 8220;Catatumbo” tour, which is an unexplained phenomenon of a nightly occurrence of lightning without thunder. We drove about 3 hours to a port town and caught a riverboat to a house in the middle of Lake Maracaibo (the largest lake in South America) to watch the occurrence happen. It goes down pretty late in the night, so in the meantime we went to try and catch river caimans. You could find them by shining flashlights at the banks and you could spot them by their ...
First week in Merida and Catatumbo Lightning
... 959;υς, κατά τη διάρκε 53;α 140 έως 160 νυχτών ετησίω 62;, 10 ώρες την ημέρα και μέχρι 280 φορές την ώρα.
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