Diamond Rock Hotel
Travel Blogs from Le Diamant
From Guyana to Venezuela and up the mountain
... plane ride on a 12 seater Trans Guyana Airways aircraft. The cabin was cramped and we ended up sitting right behind the pilot and co-pilot, both of whom remained conscious throughout the flight, so we didn't get to make use of our guide to landing a light aircraft from the Worst Case Scenario Travellers Handbook! We landed in The border town of Lethem about half an hour late, which only gave us 55 minutes to make it to the frontier and complete the border formalities before the ...
Roraima
... fyrir goda vedrid var vangefid kalt um leid og solin for og tha serstaklega a nottunni. Eg svaf i bokstaflega ollum fotunum minum fyrir utan bikiniinu, gongufotunum og auka naerfotunum, i tiltolulega thykkum svefnpoka og med auka lak undir. Samt var eg ad frjosa ur kulda alveg thangad til solin kom upp. Aftur a moti voru engar flugur uppi a fjallinu thannig vid vorum laus vid flugnabit i thrja goda daga.
Leidin nidur var klarlega audveldari en ...
En Venezuela stond niet eens op onze planning
... zijn uit 2010 stammende Lonely Planet van geheel South Amerika. Via andere reizigers, lokalen en het altijd onbevooroordeelde internet krijgen we een beeld van Venezuela en komen er zo ook langzaam achter dat dit een erg bijzonder en niet zo eenvoudig te bereizen land is….
....Maar dat vertellen we later nog wel....
Oh ja, en hieronder nog wat Braziliaanse eigenaardigheden:
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Die kleine Stadt zum Wohlfühlen
... einer knappen Stunde Stellungskrieg gelang es mir den Feind aus seiner Deckung zu locken und mit einer aufgeschnittenen Fanta-Dose gefangen zu nehmen – und ins Asyl nach draussen zu schicken.Die Nachhut in Form der kleinen Kaefer um den erwaehnten Kokon (Nachwuchs-Kakalaken) wurde bereits am ersten Tag geschlagen.… gewonnene Schlacht, doch gewonnener Krieg … ?Hauts ...
Te Gusta (?)
Finally I found that question mark. Punctuation is different on each computer I encounter. Welcome back everyone, just a short post. I took the night bus to Santa Elena de Uairen last night. I had read about all the millitary checkpoints and was not looking forward to them.They were however more relaxed than i thought. What I noticed was that the men with machine guns were young, some were boys. When they saw my passport at one of the checkpoints the ...