Tamanaco Intercontinental Caracas

Hello everyone, We are writing this from Santa Fe, two days after our departure from Caracas. Here´s our take on Caracas: The Good We arrived in the middle of the night after a good flight out of Vancouver (although the Air Canada flight was late...again) . Immigration and security in Caracas went very quickly, and we found our baggage to be quite secure. After leaving the secure area we were immediately surrounded by people who wanted to offer help and taxi, we were ...

... se nos presentan en el diario acontecer. Grave error; equivalente al que muchos de ellos manifiestan al afirmar temerariamente que este es el único planeta donde existe vida. Estos sabios nos ofrecen todo tipo de diagnósticos; pero eso sí, la única solución valida es la que ellos proponen, las demás son descabelladas y mientras tanto el sobrecalentamiento global, ha ...

As I have now traveled through 21 countries and 70 cities over the past 14 months, I'd like to let everyone know what my top 3 to 5 are in various countries. Here they are: Top 5 cities I would like to live in: 5) Santiago, Chile 4) Stockholm, Sweden 3) Berlin, Germany 2) Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam 1) Sao Paulo, Brazil Top 3 surprisingly fun cities 3) Lima, Peru ...

... in my fleece and long sleeve! Why does it need to be so cold? We arrive into Puerto la Cruz that night and spent a very expensive night in a very skevy hotel! The next morning brought hope as were were finally able to exchange money on the black market (not as black as it sounds!) at an exchange rate of double of what the offer at the back and headed on a 2 hours por puestos (small local bus) to Santa Fe for a whoppi 2USD!! The beach!!!

Caracas was an effort to get to. The bus was freezing - the coldest ever - it made the travel horrible! We finally arrived huddling together for warmth at 10am ish. We walked to a metro and got it to our hotel. It is quite a reasonable price concidering it is the capital. It has a TV and aircon so we are happy! Caracas ...

... you aim just right, you can hit the ripe mangos at the top of the tree and catch them when they fall. Everyone in the park was either making out with their girlfriend or slinging mangos (sometimes a little bit of both), and it just felt wonderful and relaxing. Truly a beautiful park, and one that I intend to return to (in fact, I´m heading there right now, it´s right around the corner). I want to perfect my mango tossing technique before I leave Venezuela. --Greg

... shapely ham and cheese hips) thinks it's well worth it. I have also managed to phone the air company to book my domestic flight (as opposed to a wild one?!) to Cuidad Bolivar. I meant to do it in the airport but another helpful sign that I couldn't see was how to get from the International to the National terminal. Anyway, I think it's done. It was a conversation in spanglish, finished off nicely of five minutes with the guy trying to tell me to write the confirmation number ...

... that right?) around. And then there are the chevys and dodges and ford trucks and every single old american car you can imagine with huge tyres. I guess rubber is very cheap too here! Even the public buses are left running! Which inevitably leads me to think that there is a lot of wastage. But then there is a lot of wastage in America as well with one person driving a fuel guzzling SUV and they would not dream of changing to a more fuel efficient car. The bigger the ...

... so I had the day off to explore the city. I met up with a Venezuelan boy and his friend and we had lunch together. We then walked through the shopping mall and then went to the cable cars to climb mount Avila. Going up on the cable car gave us a great view of the city. On top of the mountain the temperature was cooler and felt more european. Maybe thats the reason why there was a german village here. These germans came ...

... the rest of our day? So, after I go my pin from the HRC, we spent about 6 hours at the mall. This mall was huge though, about 6 floors and 2 wings. It was so much fun. There were a lot of different clothing stores, but also some were the same (ie. Armani Exchange, Lacoste, Nautica) After the mall we came back to the ship and all rested. We grapped dinner in the cafe on the ship.