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 ...

Hey everyone, I´m gonna take this up where I left off last time. On Wednesday we flew back to Trinidad via the T&T Express, a propellor plane. They performed a thorough search of our bags before we checked in and confiscated many bottles of our bug spray! We still had one left in our carry on though (which for some reason was allowed on the plane no problem!), so we weren´t too gutted. Once we arrived in ...

... and me thinking he wanted some sort of number from me and trying to give him my passport or credit card number! The flight isn't until 7.30pm and I have to check out at 12.30pm, but it will give me plenty of time to find the domestic terminal check I really have bought a ticket, get amused at how they have spelt my name after my trying to spell it out in spanish, and hopefully fully relax that the next leg of the journey is under way. I also rang yesterday to the hostel I ...

... I think is the common philosphy! All I can say is that at least the Venezuelans don´t go to war for it! Maybe someday we will all learn not to waste the fossil fuels that we have and maybe that day will come before the fuel runs out. Food was a bit disappointing in Venezuela. I swear I will never ever eat ham and cheese again even if it is the absoluetly last thing to eat on this planet. They put it in everything, sweet, savoury, bitter whatever. You ask for eggs and ...

... some generations ago and settled here and never mixed with locals. So up on the hill suddenly people are blonde, speak german, brew their own beer and since it was oktober they were also celebrating Oktober-fest in their lederhosen and eating Bratwurst. It was odd to see but funny at the same time. We joined the crowd and drank local beer. After all this we went down and went our separate ways untill we would meet again in ...

By the time I woke up this morning, the ship had anchored in La Guaira, Venezuela. I went to the sixth deck of the ship and ate breakfast while taking in my first glimpse of South America. La Guaira is a industrial port city just north of the capital city of Caracas. Mt. Avila separates the two cities and it is about a forty minute ascent via taxi to get to Caracas. La Guaira is made up mostly of "ranchitos" similar to what are called barrios in Mexico ...