Nevada Palace
Travel Blogs from Merida
Small in size, big in fun
... I ask politely whether we can, uh, please go down (much to the disgust of my buddy) and as we battle the winds and he eventually gets us down after about 20 minutes, I run off to say hello again to lunch whilst Gav cracks up laughing. Then it's beers with the boys afterwards outside a licoria where locals are dancing and there are shady deals going on, and I sit there with a 7up and sick down my t-shirt. Good times.
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Crossing the Border to Venezuela
... the weather, with sunny mornings but clouds quickly obscuring the mountains further drove us in that direction. In terms of tours, there were two different ones we were considering. A first option was a 4-day safari visit to los Llanos, the famous grassland area, rich in wildlife. The other option was a 2 or 3-day tour to Maracaibo lake to watch the Catatumbo lightning, a freakish phenomenon with almost daily lightning storms caused by the unique atmospheric conditions over ...
Merida and Los LLanos
... a man was very keen on Tasha getting a picture of his famous Venezuelan bread! As the sun went down we entered the Apure region and began to spot lots of birds in the pools of the plains on either side of the road, it began to rain again and the roads got more trecherous as our driver kept having to swerve out of the way of huge potholes, and leaping frogs!
Tash was slightly disappointed on arrival at the camp by the fact that our ´room´ (concrete block with ...
Venezuela
... the street from the station and got the biggest ******n steaks we’d ever seen in our lives. I don’t know if it was a joke or what, but they even brought us a big ol’ sausage to accompany our steak. The restaurant was filled with random, alone Venezuelan guys with like 10 empty beer bottles sitting in front of them watching the baseball game. After the game was over, many of their attentions turned to us and felt obligated to come talk to us in indiscernible ...
Last days in Colombia - Going to Merida, Venezuela
... 963;α στην Βιργία όπου πήρα ένα άλλο λεωφορ 49;ίο για μια ώρα για να φτάσω στην Μέριδα. Ήμουν πολλή ...