Blogs from Ciudad Bolívar, Guayana, Venezuela, South America - page 2

The second leg of the Dragoman tour started in Manaus. Only 7 of us this time. We had a 2 day drive to reach Venezuela and the landscape on the way was stunning with very pretty green farmland and lush forest. We saw macaws and lots of parrots. Our night stop was at the equator, a scrubby, grubby patch of dirt with a bizarre marker, a rock with a funny hockey stick through it. It was a nice evening, the sounds of the parrots in the forest replaced by the sounds of the frogs. One of the young girls got spooked by lights in the forest but she got really excited when I told her they were fireflies. We had a hot night in our tents. When we got up at 4 am to depart we ... read more

We spent yesterday travelling to Ciudad Bolivar and are now staying at Posada La Casita...the first really really nice place weve stayed at...were sleeping in bunk'beds in a little hut (decided against hammocks) since getting a proper room is 80000 bolivares versus 18000 for a bunk bed.. the place has a pool table, a pool and everything...we played a few racks of pool last night, and then got told that a trip to see the orinocco delta and angel falls would cost 980000 bolivars...stunned....thats about 500 dollars the official exchange rate, wayyyy out of our budget.. so now were in ciudad bolivar trying to find some tour agency that will do us a trip to angel falls, the highest waterfall in the world which is over a kilometre in length, for really cheap...its a long shot, ... read more

On the 7th we caught a coach from Caracas down to Cuidad Bolivar wgçhere we were staying at a posada and catching our tour to Canima and the Angle Falls from. After the 8 hour bus journey we arrived in Cuidad Bolivar, a much smaller and poor city than Caracas. We were met at the bus terminal by Peter, the owner of the posada and Gekko Tours. He was a German who had moved her to open a tour comapany and was maybe once of the funniest people we have evr met. He wa quite a heavy drinker and durring the 10 minute rie to his posada he had to stop and buy three cans, and then proceed to down them while go at 60 mph along the main road! After a night at the posada ... read more

Hello all, I am curretly in Ciudad (city) Bolivar, Venezuala. Bolivar is the gateway to Angel Falls, which is the highest waterfall in the world at 979 meters, 807 of which are uniterrupted (16 times higher than Niagara in case you were wondering). But alas, these details are better left for my next entry (as I have not yet embarked on the three day journey to see the falls). Well, my last entry left me off in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After splitting up so I could go home and become a man, Bryce and I managed to meet up at a hostel in Ipanema, a district in Rio (anybody know the Frank Sinatra song, "The Girl from Ipanema"?). After traveling for almost 30 hours from Canada and arriving at the hostel at 8pm, Bryce already ... read more

From our campsite in Boa Vista we drove to the border and crossed into Venezuela via Santa Elena de Uairen, a small frontier town, that is also where we got our entry stamp, i think we have to bribe some people so we got delayed a bit, from there we drove to the Gran Sabana where the view is just spectacular, we stopped by a waterfall which was crap cause it hasnt rained for awhile, then off to Ciudad Bolivar to camp. It is so hot here, seems like nothing to do at all, good thing our camp had a swimming pool. From here we organized our 3 days trip to Canaima where we will see Angel Falls. We flew on a small plane and the pilot was really cool and made this maneuvers to let ... read more