Pestana Caracas Hotel & Suites

... and sat down on my pack, pulled out a piece of paper and started taking the name of the officer that did not seem too comfortable with the situation. I asked the one who was harrassing us for his papers so I could take note of who I was talking with. At this point the friendlier officer took the papers and called in our passeport numbers to head office. Everything came out clean and they gave us our papers. We walked straight to the hotel (a minute a way) and took a ...

... football field, communal laundry which is broken so hand washing only, many fruit trees such as bananas, enough mangos to feed a few armies (they´re good to) they eat the skin and everything here straight of the ground, limes, oranges, avocados, cucumbers, corn, cheeries, peppers......, 5 dogs. There are no cows or anything like that so not a ranch...... There is Jose and Matir Whom are parents in one house to 7 boys. There is Carlos and Avida whom are ...

... gelebt hatte und deshalb ein recht gutes Englisch sprach. Im Zentrum bewegten wir uns dann zu Fuss und besuchten u.a. das Geburtshaus von Simón Bolívar, die Plaza Bolívar und direkt daneben das sehr schoene Gebaeude des Bürg**meist**amtes. In den Praesidentenpalast (Palacio de Miraflores) durfte ich nicht rein, weil ich Shorts trug. D** Guide war dann recht sau** auf Chávez´ Leute und fluest**te mir zu, dass "this kind of ****" seine Arbeit als Guide massiv ...

... But my Spanish isn't up for that anyway. The problem we face is that Spanish speakers seem unable to speak slowly or use simple constructions. The airline lady had asked if we spoke Spanish first, but when we had said only a little, that was a green light for her and she began blabbering as though we were fluent. It has been a real eye-opener for me and I aim to do better when speaking to people who do not know English well from now on. So, the recipe is to slow ...

... make the exchange while you have a coffee. bring enough US dollars for your trip. if you have travellers cheques you can only get the official exchange rate of around $1:2000b. it doesn´t appear to be possible to swap $ travellers cheques for $ notes. a minibus to caracas will cost 13,000b if you ask one of the official looking guys in blue shirts to help you (this side of the xray machines). when you arrive in caracas at parque central, get a taxi the ...

Now, some of you may be surprised to receive another blog based on the fact I returned to the UK after the liveliness of Rio, via Buenos Aires for a fantastic family reunion. I enjoyed the South American experience so much I have flown back to effectively complete the circuit of the continent. So, a couple of weeks ago I flew into Manaus in northern Brazil to carry on. Door to door the journey took 50 hours although most of that was hanging around in ...

... per hour. There is no access to USB so we cannot upload pics. That will have to wait. Tomorrow we are off to Maracay and Puerto Columbia Another point of interest is traffic. Traffic lights are only guidelines. Few people actually stop at the red lights, especially not the Taxi mopeds. How rusting you must be to take a little moped as a cab. The driver has a helmet, but none for the passenger as he weaves in and out of traffic running through ...

... Lagoon spending lunch with their cocktail galore.Then we all will take a tour in and out of Canaima Lagoon. This day is ment for relaxing till day 4. Day 9: On this day we'll take out last adventure here in Canaima. We'll travel on board on a DC3 aircraft through Devil's Canyon and have a wonderful view of angel falls in the air. We'll return to Campamento to Recollect all our belongings. We'll then be going to the airport and travel to our next destination...Praia Do Forte

... up to the corner of the Hilton we were halted by a Soldier wearing a red beret. As he made us halt a cavalcade of 4x4 filled with bulky men with suits and Mercs with black tinted windows and flags on the front hurtled passed us. Bloody hell it´s only bloody president Chavez himself innit... Astounded by this incredible coincidence (Maybe he had heard about my Virgin addict card) I could only slap myself on the forehead whilst waiting about 200 meters from our luggage during which ...

Today was our first day in Venezuela. We arrived at the port at 7am, which is when I woke up. The Venezuelan customs/immigration people had to come on the ship and check all of our passports. During that time me and Andrea went for breakfast. After breakfast, we had a short briefing from the U.S. embassy, two people came on board to give us a little information about safety and emergency phone numbers, etc. Once we were cleared to ...