Hilton Caracas

... shouldn´t be trusted to get the milk from his local corner shop let alone wander the streets of Caracas with plastic money. We made it back to the Hilton without taking the senic route past the gangs and crack whores in about ten mins flat. Good job ...

Well we have spent two days in manic Caracas and thankfully nothing bad has happened, apart from the fact that at first count Monday afternoon I had 25 mosquito bites to Andy´s 2, someone please tell me how that is fair especially as I brought pretreated ...

... board, taps and running water. So you could categorically say that they sold Everything. We strolled through the lively Caracas afternoon, following the route of the "Bolivar Walk". Simon Bolivar was the revolutionary who led the bloodied uprising ...

... wait at the airport, when the private airport shuttle finally had more passengers than it could accommodate, we set off for Caracas city. We reached Altamira around 2030 on a Saturday night and there was not a single room available. The Venezuelan ...

So from sunny Carmel we arrived in rainy Caracas having survived American hotels, planes, coffee and the great state of Texas. Arriving here after fourteen hours of travel, the last thing we wanted was to be ripped off by some taxi driver at 11:30 in the ...

... at a great cake shop and had incredibly indulgent cakes and coffees before using the subway back.  Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas     Angel Said showed me around his campus. Having seen a few English campus', and the wonderful ...

We arrived back in Denver CO at 3:15am this morning. Not sure, but it was probably around 80deg when we left Caracas at 4:30pm and around 0 when we landed in Denver. Backing up a bit, we spent two days in Ciudad Bolivar. The write up in Lonely planet ...

... forearms. Pah. Whilst Lea got a kindly old chatty gent (small). That's karma for leaving Lea's tickets behind and having to check in late. Well that's our first two hours in Caracas we will write more once we've seen more than the inside of the ...

... been to. The statistics are true and ever present, but the Colombia underneath appears to be something quite different. Good Riddance Caracas It´s 2am and we are dozing fitfully on the overnight bus from Caracas to Colombia. The man in front of me ...

... can. The pilot got a high five after that and I got a beer. So now I find myself in Simon Bolivar International airport, Caracas, ready to rock on down to the TAP Portugal check in desk for my flight back to London. They'll probably deny all knowledge ...

... waiters did a stupid dance for the foreigners.  The next day we had our second part of our colloquial exam at a restaurant called Caracas where we had to order and speak in Arabic the whole time.  The meal took two hours to come out and Heba, ...

... , as we headed away from the airport in Port of Spain, Trinidad. “When the hotel said you were coming on a flight from Caracas, I thought, Oh, no they are going to speak only Spanish and I won't understand them” he added. It made us laugh, as ...

... no buses. Confused we asked the taxi drivers, who told us that no buses run today to Maicao, unless people are going from Caracas - explains why the guy had not wanted to sell us the ticket already! Ended up getting a cheaper deal with the taxi drivers ...

... to those killed on the Cubana Airlines flight from Barbados on a flight to Havana. The plot was purportedly hatched in Caracas, where the flight originated, by Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban native and naturalized Venezuelan. "This most horrific act of ...