Playa Grande Caribe Hotel Caracas

... Plaza Bolivar, the Cathedral and his final resting place, the Patheon. We also visited the Museum of Contemporary Arts on our final day where they was a beautiful exhibition of a composit of photographs of some of the aboriginal people in South America. The artist´s intention was to help restore nobility to these groups, and for people to recognize the importance of our roots to the land. There were also sculptures and visual displays, some Picasso and Monet. The ...

... told we could be bumped onto earlier flight (our check in was supposed to be 3 am the next morning, not cool). just wait "un rato"(spanish for a momment). "un rato" turns out to be 2 hours with no flight bump.Told next opportunity is at 6pm 10.00 am to 5.30 pm: the most thrilling part of the day. We consummed vast amounts of coffee, ate a subway (ham and cheese, sweet honey mustard. we noted different salad opportunites in ...

... stay for at least 3 months 5) Dubrovnik, Croatia 4) Cali, Colombia 3) Koh Tao, Thailand 2) Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic 1) Chiang Mai, Thailand Top 3 shadiest cities (as defined by the amount of people who try to scam you) 3) Bali, Indonesia (more around the beach areas) 2) Budapest, Hungary 1) Bangkok, Thailand Top 3 places for music 3) Colombia 2) Philippines 1) Brazil

... really great. It is horribly dangerous at night, they say the worse in S America but during the day it is nice. We spent most of day one trying to exchange money on the black market. Eventually after an hour or so we had changed $300 for 4,800 rather than the 2,100 offered in ATM´s!!!! With our new found riches (see the ...

12.10.2007 - 14.10.2007 Bratislava-Vieden-Pariz - CARACAS Let do Venezuely prebehol bez problemov, z Viedne cez Pariz do Caracasu s Air France. Uz vo Viedni som sa zoznamil s parikom cestovatelov (mena som zabudol :) ) zo zahoria, s ktorymi sme potom isiel taxikom z letiska do centra Caracasu. Tam sa nase cesty rozisli, ja som sa tam stretol s Gabiko u a oni planovali ist hned ten vecer do Ciudad Bolívar s planom navstivit Roraimu, Angel ...

... going (and helped us avoid the swarm of dodgy taxi drivers). We are going to get an overnight bus to Ciudad Bolivar, a city on the banks of the Orinocco river. An attraction of the city, and the purpose for our visit, is that it is a good place to organise a tour to Angel Falls! We will keep you all updated! p.s. Our sunburn (for those of you who were concerned) is pretty much all healed up and going brown!

... here to get our flight out to Peru tomorrow so off we went into the big bad world! We got a bus from Puerte Colombia to Caracas this morning and managed to negotiate the metro to a station close to a hotel we read about all the time on high alert for something out of place. When we were leaving the Metro station we stepped to one side to check our map when a very concerned lady approached and dramatically warned us about pickpockets and muggers ...

... disappear in a couple of gulps. Stan always had to order two at a time for himself because by the time he got back from the bar he would have finished one bottle. The reason behind it, as stated in the guidebook is that the Venezuelans like their beer very cold. I personally think its just another clever marketing strategy devised by Polar, by far the biggest beverage company in Venezuela, to earn more money per bottle. As I write this, Stan disagrees and is waffling ...

... the next seven days relaxing, sunbathing by the pool, going to the beach, reading books and playing cards. The beach was lovely, great waves for surfing but not so good for swimming! The island was really quiet as their peak tourist time had ended. It was very hot (about 40 degrees) so with our fair Irish skin we all turned a little pink! It also didnt help taking Malaria tablets which made our skin even more sensitive to the sun.

... HUGE South American metropolis. Oil money fueled modernization in Caracas, and the results are very obvious. About 18% of the oil imported into the US comes from Venezuela. Gas prices in Venezuela (you're gonna hate me for telling you this) are 30 cents a gallon (US currency). A litre of gas in Caracas costs around 8 cents...a litre of bottled water is about 30 cents. Caracas is simply put a city of "haves" and "have-nots". The "have-nots" get by in the ...