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Travel Blogs from Caracas
Venezuela
Ok, so, nothing like a bit of drama to start... I´m in Caracas (whoop whoop) with no luggage :´( Booo. Thanks B.A. It´s been over 24 hours now & i´ve been promised delivery tomorrow. I hope so - I intended to leave here on Monday. I´ve only seen Caracas for an hour in daylight after we landed this evening. Home to around 4m people, it´s located …
Crackers in Caracas
Before even arriving in Caracas I was given a flavour of what to expect, I sat on the plane next to a diplomat from Isreal who worked in the Embassy in Caracas. He advised me to take off all my jewellery before leaving the airport and that the area in which I was staying was not a safe area, all this before I had even landed. I took a taxi from the …
Die ersten Tage
... bzw. an den Stadtteil, in dem wir gerade sind (Altamira) gewoehnt. Was uns noch ziemlich zu schaffen macht ist die Sprache: Man lernt einen Satz auswendig, sowas wie “Querria conectarme a Internet” (Ich mochte eine Internetverbindung) und zurueck kommt “blablablablablablablablablablalb allba” + und ein erwartungsvoller Blick. Aber umso mehr wir versuchen die Sprache mit den Menschen zu sprechen, umso mehr kommt die offene und freundliche ...
The City of Love (Motels)
... bag on my front, I was driven to the bus station. I didn't think I would fit on the bike, you know with my bags, but I did. As my luck would have it, a bus to Cartagena was just about to leave, they held it for me and I was on my way to Cartagena. This bus took 11 hours.
If it were not for my lack of US dollars I would have happily spent more time in Venezuela. The country is so beautiful, the people very very friendly and ...
Starting at home
We started this travel at home, in Caracas Venezuela. We bought the fly tickets with COPA airlines. The flight depart from maiquetia airport to Panama City and after one our there it depart to Cancun airport. The Panama City airport is a good place to bay everything; the duty free shops sell clothes shoes, liquors, TVs games … ...