Grand Bolivar

Travelled via ferry and coach to Ciudad Bolivar (12hrs). We did the day trip to Angel falls the following day. It started with a hair raising hours flight on a 5 seater Cessna to Canaima, an indigenous village close to the falls. Canaima is situated on ...

... colonial area called la Candaleria. We passed through some dreary looking but very busy streets and came into view of the Plaza Bolivar. It was magnificent, a large open area flanked on all four sides by grand 18th Century buildings, it had a very similar ...

... accommodating young man of Serbian origins (but Peruvian temperament). We had planned to stop on our way to the venerable Hotel Bolivar, our first accommodations, in order to pick up Carlos and Aida, Miryam's parents. We are treating them to dinner at the ...

... monastery we whisked through the other main sights and squares in central Lima and then had a few Pisco Sours in the 'grand hotel Bolivar'. Claire avoided the raw egg and had Sprites due to a dodgy tummy probably sustained by eating the bus food the day ...

... cars, trucks, guns, and dolls, all in pink boxes. Kids' paradise - and parents' hell! Then on to Gran Hotel Bolivar, where Pisco sour, the famous Peruvian cocktail, is said to have been invented and that Nicolas treated us to. By the end of ...