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Welcome to the Revolution
... into a taxi for the border crossing.
I knew we were paying maybe $5 too much for the service and I didn't care as we needed to get to the airport pronto. Exit stamp from a slow moving, bored official at the Colombian office; entrance stamp for Venezuela in an office adorned with images of the president, Hugo Chavez. Welcome to the anti-imperialist, socialist revolution.
To get into ...
In the city puerto ordaz
... at the entrance, who can afford it has barbe wire, who has even more money has an electric fence.
many people live like in prison.....
bought a bus ticket during the day, wolf brought me to the terminal at night, the bus did not show up, so....another night at a terminal.
it was faster to lose the money and to buy a ticket on another bus in the morning.
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Oh no, no dinero
After being dropped off back in Tucupita, I enquired as best I could how to get to Santa Elena de Uairen, the border town with Brazil. I was running a little low on money and I understood that ATMs rarely have any cash in them or accept international cards. Additionally, you only get the official exchange rate. I thought it best not to linger too much centrally and to ...
More fools
... as there was ´more to do´ there. Not to be sexist but, in saying that, being sexist, I think she must have meant it was good for shopping, dominated as it was by a huge mall complex housing shops, cinema, multiple chain eateries etc. Puerto Ordaz is the more modern town of two adjacent towns (the other being San Felix) on opposing sides of the Coroni river at its confluence with the Orinoco. It is ...
Hot and humid
This city was just a transfer city so I didn't see much. Two gigantic rivers surround Puerto Ordaz, the river Orinoco and another one of which I forgot the name. The city itself is a union of Puerto Ordaz and Ciudad Guyana. But everybody today still calls each part their original name. It was quite humid and hot there, luckily not many ...
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