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By Travels with Tom and Alice
October 26th 2008

MARGARITA ISLAND, Venezuela

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October 22 - 26, 2008 MARGARITA ISLAND, Venezuela After a long day of travelling ( Bogota, Caracas, Margarita Island ) we arrived at Margarita Island and checked into Hesperia Resort for a few day of relaxing. This is a really nice part of the world with beautiful beaches and some great facilities. This is not really what we expected as the countryside is small mountains ( we were thinking flat ! ) and it is a very, very nice place. We did exactly as planned and pretty much stayed around the resort except for a few hours in Porlamar, the main [View Full Entry]

By EmmaRoundTheWorld
October 1st 2008

Trapped in Margarita

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Bird spotting at dusk

It started on thursday night with a phone call from a friend. "Hey, we're going to Margarita for the weekend and have a spare seat in the car - do you want to come?" As my previosly arranged plans for the weekend had just fallen through (as Venezuelan plans so often do) I felt this was too good an opportunity to turn down. I knew that managing the five hour drive and six hour ferry ride there and then back again would be a bit of a squeeze for just a weekend but ever since I arrived I've been wanting to [View Full Entry]

By ScobieDobie
April 1st 2008

ISLA Margarita

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boats

From the great city of Quito we flew on March 20th through Bogota, without getting abducted by anyone interesting, and landed in Caracas, the crime capital of the world according to some. Managed to get through the airport with our shirts and over to the local airport for a short flight to Isla de Margarita. We´ve had a very laid back time here. Not alot to do and one has to just take your foot off the accelerator and chill or you can go a bit nuts. Very hot here. I mean very hot. Our friend Richard very graciously provided us [View Full Entry]

By Luca in Viaggio
January 31st 2008

La Isla Bonita

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Venezuela Uber Alles

Abbandonata Caracas (fuggito, letteralmente), ho trovato rifugio in questa famosa isola resa famosa dal turismo, unica sua fonte d'introiti. Per i miei gusti è un po' troppo sputtanata, scusate l'espressione. Diciamo che assomiglia parecchio a Tenerife, da me recentemente visitata, togliendole l'ordine di un Paese Europeo e aggiungendole le zanzare. Certo, rispetto alla capitale, l'ambiente è mille vole mille più rilassato. Sinceramente, non so come si possa vivere in un posto come Caracas senza pensare al suicidio (o all'omicidio plurimo) almeno tre o quattro volte al giorno. Alla prossima. [View Full Entry]

By jockc
December 11th 2007

A jolly little folly around bits of Venezuela

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Sanata Fe

I stayed in San Francisco a day longer than planned. Actually I stayed in San Francisco airport a day longer than planned. I assumed what happened to me only happened on airport. It turns out that it doesn’t and I am glad that it doesn’t. I got to the airport in ample time even though my position at the back of the queue would suggest not. I don’t know if it’s a South American thing but pretty much everyone in the queue seemed to be taking the worldly possessions on the flight with them. Ironing boards, TV’s you name it. About [View Full Entry]

By Tina B
October 1st 2007

We made it to Venezuela

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Well after a long day on Saturday we finally made it to Margarita. It is very hot and very cheap. Our villa is good, the fridge is full of beer and the pool is welcome after a morning´s sunbathing. We plan on having a few more days here before heading back to the mainland by ferry to go to Cuidad Bolivar to organise our trip to Angel Falls. I have many insect bites already, the others have barely got any! Don´t have any great photo´s to post yet (plus I still don´t know how to!) Will post again once we get [View Full Entry]

By MOANA
September 28th 2007

MARGARITA - QUELQUES COURSES...

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Texte de France : Wow! Un petit bateau approche pour nous offrir le diesel et le gaz. Oui, 50 litres de gazoil et 5 gallons de gaz pour (7.50) 30,000 bolivars qui dit mieux? Il faut vous dire que la banque donne 2,100 bolivars pour 1.00 et qu’ici il y a un marché au noir pour l’échange qui nous donne 4,000 bolivars pour 1.00. Donc tous les achats que nous effectuons nous divisons par 4,000. Le marché est ainsi car ils veulent du comptant américain et notre argent est au pair en plus. Comme se n’est pas toujours facile de trouver [View Full Entry]

By MOANA
September 28th 2007

MARGARITA et la ville...

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Message de France : Je ne comprend pas toujours bien ce que les gens aiment des grandes villes comme ici. Les architectures , les musées. Bien sur que ceux qui y viennent en vacance sont dans des resorts avec le grand service, les spectacles et les plus belles plages. Pour nous ici dans la baie en tout cas c'est la pauvreté que l'on voit, en ville : la saleté. Sur les bateaux les gens sont inquiets et ils ont peur. La réalité est tout autre. .. La première soirée ici il y a eu deux voiliers qui ont vu quelqu'un essayer [View Full Entry]

By MOANA
September 28th 2007

MARGARITA

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Gary et la bière à .25 cents

Message de France 28 septembre 07 Journée de repos, nous avons décidé de faire notre clearout et de partir de Margarita en direction de Isla Coche. Des copains du bateau Grace sont venus prendre un verre dans l'après midi pour nous souhaiter un bon voyage et à la prochaine. Un groupe de bateau se donne rendez-vous par la suite pour souper et prendre l'apéro au restaurant Sunset tout près de la plage. Le coût pour la douane un autre 20.00 pour la sortie. Une soirée très bien réussie avec deux chanteurs américains, navigateurs qui gagnent leur vie en chantant dans les [View Full Entry]

By MOANA
September 26th 2007

MARGARITA - JOUR DES EMPLETTES

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Texte de France : Nous avions la chance ici à la marina Juan de prendre un autobus, offert par le magasin Sigo, une grosse épicerie d’ici. Après un trajet de 15 minutes nous y étions. Une très grande surface comparable à un WalMart mais en plus de la régie, de la tabagie et bien sur de l’épicerie. Arrivés à la caisse après avoir payé, un emballeur spécial nous donne un numéro et range notre commande dans des boites numérotées, le tout est ensuite rangé dans un camion qui nous suit jusqu’à la marina. Un autre avec un chariot nous l’apporte jusqu’au [View Full Entry]

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