Riviera Puerto La Cruz

... weer vervolgen. Wel een samenvatting van de meest voorkomende ellende in Zuid-Amerikaanse bussen, had eigenlijk ook wel wat om dat als afsluiter te hebben :)<br><br>Het aankomen in Puerto la Cruz was best raar; hier was ik dus negen maanden geleden... Een taxi genomen naar de famillie Carerra voor een heel hartelijk weerzien!! Echt heel mooi om mijn 'gastfamillie' weer te ontmoeten.

... hoe mij dat zou bevallen... niet dus :) Halverwege de nacht ben ik maar op de grond gaan liggen en heb zo nog een paar uurtjes kunnen pitten. De volgende dag had ik mijn 1e kater in Zuid- Amerika, goeie genade!!! Mijn lichaam is echt niet gebouwd om sterke drank te verwerken, zeker niet in grote hoeveelheden. Gelukkig was ik niet de enige en na en paar uurtjes (heel) rustig aan doen ging het wel weer. Ik logeer nu dus bij de familie Carrera (echt ...

... arrived, the other taking another 45mins - Caro´s of course! Our first helpful Venezuelian gave us our first impression we were not in for the budget life we had hoped for, with flights for Los Roques around 4 times the amount we had thought. Quickly abandoning that idea (we had really only wanted it for some beach time and for a scuba course which we can do in Colombia for a fraction of the price), we decided that staying in the airport was also not as appealing and got a ...

... and get some accomm for the night! Turns out that being a saturday in peak season almopst everything was booked. Not quite we managed to get a room in a 4 star beackfront place, charging 5 star prices and when we finally arrived the place was a bit of a dump. although our room was nice (recently refurbed) We acted like students, went out bought some really nice frech bread, some cheese, ham, and amazing Avos and pigged out. The stress of ...

... paridise. Shallow turqoise water and tranquil shady beach.Lovely hour's relaxing before heading to another island to buy beers. This island was inhabited and I stayed on the boat while the rest when into town. Soon I was inundated by the little children who had been swimming around the jetty. I managed to learn all their names, watched them all dive off the jetty for me and they brought me live Cowries but before I could tell them to put the ...

... us in spanish, we point down the road and tell him we are heading there. He continues very slowley through the deep puddles as we follow and find the beach and all the posadas. We find the Sante Fe Resort and Dive Centre. Check in which was fun as the chap could not understand that we had booked a room, after much gesturing we finally got keys to our room. We met up with one of the tourists that was on the bus that passed us, he turns out to be a ...

... We kunnen het niet repareren op zee, daarvoor is de scheur te groot. We vinden er wel wat op: een oranje trysail, dat in plaats van het grootzeil gebruikt wordt bij storm. Het is echt heel klein en nog nooit gebruikt, maar het zorgt er in elk geval voor dat we niet te veel gaan slingeren. De laatste dag hebben we stroom tegen, maar het deert ons niet. Het maakt niet ons niet uit of we snel of langzaam gaan, we vermaken ons toch wel. En de dolfijnen die ons ...

... Puerto la Cruz at 3am after being stopped by military check points (for passports etc) nearly every hour while travelling across the country. We decided that for safety and we needed money from ATM´s that at 3am to sit in the freezing air-conditioned bus stop until sun rise. We then headed in to town which had nothing to talk about, and got money finally after trying lots of cash points, got breakfast then back to bus stop to get onto a little minibus to get to Santa Fe ...

... simmer am Morge z'Puerto la Cruz acho und haend ein Tag det verbracht. Mer haend noed wuerkli viel meh gmacht, we am Strand entlang z'laufe und z'aesse. Uf Puerto la Cruz haemmer sowieso noed welle. S-Spezielle a dere Stadt isch, dass di Riiche a Kanael wohned. DSas heisst, dass die vo jedem Huus us, vorne mitem Auto und hine mit em Boot choend wegfahre. Und sogar s-iichaufszentrum im Riicheviertel haet hine en chline "Hafe" fuer d¨Yachte. Am ...

... decided that the day was far from over so we all decided to up the stakes from beach rum to battle rum which resulted in us all having a massive wrestling match on the beach (Carla not included). To finish the evening off in true Venezuelan style I fell foul to a local bandit and had a whole 1000 Boliviars (10p) stolen in a dash and grab set up operation as I very irresponsibly walked off with a local in search of NL. I found it quite funny as they made off with their 10p bounty ...