TravelPod Member ReviewsPosada Casa Sol Merida
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Switzerland
Dec 12, 2010
Lovely atmosphere, fantastic place
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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelPosada Casa Sol Merida
Home to the best guesthouse in the entire world!!
So after officially the coldest bus journey we have ever experienced we arrived in Merida and oh what a shock. It's lovely (which means compared to the rest of Venezuela it's a beautiful paradise!). It's green and surrounded by National Parks, the street are clean and you almost feel safe at night. Well we did feel safe until a French guy who now …
Viva la Suiza
Porque es cada vez necessario que supe el camino y debo explicar al taxista donde ir!? El es de ahi no yo!
Why it is always necessary that I know the way and have to explain to the taxidriver how to get there!? He's from there and not me! With help of my map in the lonely planet guide book I just knew where we where and could tell him to …
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To the beach and back
... manage to venture out for another fresh fish dinner followed by backgammon and one too many passion fruit cocktails (the local tourist offering) before returning to the smoke machines and laser lighting, and the new CD offering of ‘Songs From The 80s You’d Thought You’d Forgotten But Will Now Never Stop Singing’.
From Puerto Colombia, we were excited to be heading back into the Andes at their very northern end and the town of ...
Life at 4000 metres
... case we had any questions. The centre had hundreds of people coming into it while we were there, and everyone was processed at a phoenomenal rate. When I have time I should probably write a more journalistic peice about this, but basically from my first impression the Venezuelan public health service gets full marks.
So now itīs raining and the student film night has been cancelled due to the Swine Flu, so not much more to report! īTill next time....
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Merida and Los LLanos
... after a little while Ken called off the search alter seeing a mapanare – poisonous snake! So decided it was not safe which was a shame as from the tracks this anaconda looked pretty big. Shortly after getting back in to the vehicle however, a 3 foot anaconda which had caught a duck on the edge of the opposing marsh was spotted. We all rushed to see the snake constrict around its meal and slowly consume it by eating it head first. James got some good video of ...


