Après une journée de repos bien méritée (je sentais plus mes jambes suite à la randonée!), nous avons pris la route de Maracaibo au nod du Vénézuela. Nous ne nous sommes pas attardés a Maracaibo, ce n'est pas une ville réputée pour etre sure et puis c'est assez moche. La principale richesse de la ville, ce sont les puits de pétrole situés dans le lac. Le lac Maracaibo est d'ailleurs le plus grand lac d'Amérique du Sud. A Maracaibo, nous avons partagé un taxi avec 2 Vénézueliens jusqu'à la frontière colombienne. Le voyage a été long et fatigant, il faisait très [View Full Entry]

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(Francais en bas de page) This day has actuelly been so long, I´m going to have to divide it into 3 entries, don´t feel obliged to read it all but if you do, well you´ll understand exactly what I mean... This is the 1st bit: After 11 hours (an hour early!!!) on a rather comfortable bus, I finally arrived to Maracaibo. The last major cityof North West Venezuela before Colombia. I´m pretty pleased with myself, I quickly managed to find a bus to take me to the border on a very cheap fare. Only one problem, the bus is basically empty [View Full Entry]

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Nach tollem Kitesurfen mit Superarchie gings nach Corro. da ists schoen. ich hab nicht viel mehr gemacht als die stadt angeschaut, mich im internetcenter wegen 15 minuten kuehlschrank erkaeltet, mich dann 2 tage erholt. die wuest angeschaut und den camino real der spanier gemacht, da viel jungle gesehen und ein paar hoehlen mit geologen erforscht. danach bin ich weiter nach merida. in die berge. [View Full Entry]

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ohohohooh, ich hab gerade bemerkt, dass ich den verdammten nationalfeiertag voll verpasst hab. ich war glaub die ganze nacht auf und bin so am 30. juli von santa marta los, ueber die grenze nach venezuela. da musste ich aber vorher noch stressprogram durchziehen und mich gegen grippe impfen lassen. sehr logisch. an der grenze hab ich dann die impfung doch nicht gebraucht. geld hab ich dort viel gewechselt und relativ schlecht. aaaah. dann nach maracaibo, eine nacht am terminal verbracht, mit dem fruehen bus nach corro und von corro gleich weiter nach adicora. da bin ich jetzt und wollte eig [View Full Entry]

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Back in venezuela for the first time in two years. It seems that comrade chavezhas been messing around with the local currency Bolivar and caused some kind of hyper inflation in the country. Things such as the price of a hotel, bottle of water, set meal already seem a lot more expensive compared to when the Bolivar had 000 after every two, five, ten and fifty. For example in the hottest of all towns, very grotty and close to the bus terminal here in Maraciabo for the crappiest of all roomsI have stayed in on all my travels you pay 50 [View Full Entry]

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Having flagged a bus just outside Tayrona National Park, which incidentally was the worst shed of a bus we have seen in Colombia we arrived at the border town of Maicao into chaos. There were several men greeting us off the bus shouting "Maricaibo, Maricaibo, Por Puesto, Por Puesto", traffic all over the place and no sight of a collectivo. We were closely followed and harassed as we tried to refuse to get in an unmarked bashed in shed of an old American Chevrolet as our taxi and headed over to the Brasillia bus terminal to be quietly reassured by the [View Full Entry]

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Wow...I made it through a very tough few days of travel on several very LONG bus trips. I now sit in an internet cafe in the barrio of Gestemani in Cartagena, Colombia...but didn´t get here easily. At this point I am too tired to go into detail...I will leave that till tomorrow. Lets just say that negative parts of the story include freezing and then sweltering buses, thunder storms, highway paralyzing car accidents, purse snatchers, unrelenting itty bitty gnats that bite like hell, corrupt as f--- policia at 10 different checkpoints at every damn kilometer approaching the border, credit cards [View Full Entry]

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Another weekend…another adventure… Thursday after class, four of us decided we would try to find something to eat. I haven’t spent much time in El Centro yet, so I was excited to go downtown and eat at a true Venezuelan restaurant. Two of the girls I went with had asked one of their professors for suggestions on where to eat, and she told us a name of a great Italian restaurant in an area we were all pretty familiar with. So after class, we took the bus to El Centro and started on our search for the restaurant. After walking for [View Full Entry]

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Zulia er en delstat i det nordvestlige Venezuela. Hovedstaden er Maracaibo. Zulia dekker et areal på 63 100 km², og har en folkemengde på 2 983 679 innbyggere (2001). Den viktigste næringsveien i delstaten er petroleumsindustrien, det utvinnes store mengder olje fra felter under Maracaibosjøen. Her kommer jeg fra. Zulia delstaten i Venezuela er det beste over alle beste i Venezuela. Folk, mat, musikken, været, og så kunne jeg forsette. Definitiv en sted man bør besøke mens i Venezuela. Bru Maracaibo over Maracaibo innsjøen. Monumenten til jomfru Maria de la Ch [View Full Entry]

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This past weekend was a wild adventure for nine of us here at VENUSA. We heard about a strange phenomenon known as Catatumbo and decided that we just had to see it! There is an area near Lake Maracaibo where it is lightening constantly but with no accompanying thunder. Scientists aren't really sure how or why this occurs, but they suspect that it is due to the change in altitude near this area. So, the nine of us headed to the bus terminal at 5am on Saturday morning with our bags packed and ready for adventure! We took the bus to [View Full Entry]

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