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Published: August 9th 2007
Worst flight ever!
Horrible turbulence! The puke bags really were a life saver.Hello friends. On our vacation we went to Venezuela
When mum and dad had their vacation this year they went to Venezuela in South America. We did some studies before we left and learned that Venezuela means "Little Venice". That name comes from early visitors who came to a place in Venezuela that reminded them of Venice in Italy. Well we have never been to Venezuela before and we have never been to Italy either. Wonder if we can now say that we have visited both...?
We did some more research and found out that Venice is an interesting place that we want to visit. If Big Venice is good then Little Venice probably is too so "Bring on the gondolas!" we yelled and started packing our bags and made ourselves ready to go. Mum and dad said we probably won't find any gondolas in Venezuela since that would be a violation of copyrights held by the Venetians. But they promised a lot of other adventures. We are always up for adventures so that sounded just great.
The flight to Venezuela went via Lisbon in Portugal. From Stockholm to Lisbon it was just like any flight we have
Terrific views
Well the cable car ride was silly. But we have to admit that the views were good. ever taken. But from Lisbon to Caracas it was officially the worst flight ever! It was such bad turbulence on the way that we had to use the puke bags. During that flight we started to wonder if it was really worth it...
We arrived in Caracas and went to a hotel mum and dad had booked in town. In the evening we wanted to party, find some nice nightclubs and dance all night. But mum and dad said we'd better stay in the hotel. They said the city is dangerous at night and that it is not safe to go out. But we think mum and dad just said that so they didn't have to admit how boring they are. They just never party. Since they would never let us do anything on our own we can't party either. So there we were stuck in a hotel room with mum and dad on the first night in Venezuela.
In the morning the next day we noticed that the hotel had pretty tight security. They had surveillance cameras, high fences with barbed wire and there was a watch dog. So maybe there was some truth in what mum
Teleferico
In Caracas there is a cable car. We expected big adventures on this trip. But this is not much of an adventure. Maybe mum and dad are getting old... and dad said about Caracas not being entirely safe.
In Caracas we did two things this day. We visited the University of Caracas and we took a cable car ride to a mountain near the city.
The University sounded like a really boring place to visit. It's a school, what is interesting about that? But it turned out to be quite good actually. What mum and dad forgot to mention before they brought us there is that all over the University there are sculptures and statues. Why they had put them there we really don't know, but they were fun because we could climb on them. Wonder if the students at the university also climb these statues when they have a break from their studies. If they don't they should.
The cable car ride mum and dad announced to be "a nice little adventure". We start to wonder if mum and dad are getting old because that was not an adventure. Sure, there were nice views from both the cable car and from the mountain. But it was not much of an adventure. Mum and dad have to come up with something better later on for us
University of Caracas
Hooray! A statue for us to climb on. to have fun on this vacation.
After Caracas we went to a place called Laguna de Sinamaica. There we visited a village that was located in a lake. First we thought that Global Warming had hit Venezuela really bad and had caused massive floods. But then we noticed that the houses were not flooded, only the ground under the houses, and that the houses were safe because the houses had legs. Mum explained that the ground under houses really wasn't floded. The houses are deliberately built in the lake. It has nothing to do with Global Warming. The lake has been there for several hundred years and the village has looked pretty much the same for at least 400 years, probably longer. What we can't understand is why they have built the houses like that. First, it must be much easier to build houses on dry ground to start with. Second, if the houses are in the lake people get wet when they visit a neighbor. Mum said they probably don't get wet when they visit neighbors because they probably take a boat then. But to us that sounds stupid. If the house was on dry ground they could
Houses with legs
These houses have legs because they are in water. But we wonder, isn't it easier to build them where there isn't water in the first place? walk and they wouldn't need to take the boat. Especially we, being cuddly toys, find it strange that they build houses in the water. We try to stay
away from water as much as possible.
The day after we visited Laguna de Sinamaica we went to a place named Coro. There we went to see a national park. When we pressed mum and dad for information on what we could expect to see there they said the park was established to protect a very interesting natural phenomenon - a few hundred sand dunes. We asked them: "So we are going to see
sand?" They answered: "Yes. That's going to be fun, isn't it?" We thought they were joking with us of course. Who in their right mind want to travel several hours to see sand. Not even mum and dad are
that crazy. We therefor thought they had some kind of adventure planned for us. We guessed all sorts of things. Maybe we are going to Disneyland, or go on a safari or maybe visit a toy museum. The only thing we didn't guess was that they hadn't been joking in the first place. We actually did go to
Watching sand!?
Mum and dad brought us to this place to watch sand? Can you believe that? It's official, they ARE out of their minds! a national park and all there was to see was sand. How stupid is that. Mum said:"Look how fantastic it is is. The shapes are unbelievable". Dad said:"I could walk here all day taking photos". We said:"Get us out of here now!". Not only was it boring. We had seen enough after only 2 minutes. When they started taking photos and forced us to pose the wind hurled sand ON us. If you have close contact with sand it sticks everywhere. Jean-Claude: "It was weeks ago we were there and I can still feel the sand itch in my fur". Emma: "I had sand in my hair for more than 10 days afterwards".
We think that the only thing that is worse than sand is water. No, the worst of all hells must be a combination of sand and water. Mum and dad say those places actually exist. Such a place is called a beach and we will probably visit one or two later on this trip. That sounds cruel! Mum even pointed out that we actually visited a beach in Mexico (here is a photo of
us on the beach). But when we think about that we can't remember ever touching
Why is mum so happy?
Mum looks happy, but we're not. Sand sticks in Jean-Claude's fur and in Emma's hair. We don't like sand. Mum seems to think it's fun that we are miserable the sand. We only remeber the drinks we had. The sand looked nice from far distance and not even the water looked bad that day. When we think about it we must have been quite drunk... We didn't even notice that there were water near us. And we never realised how horrible sand actually is. What we want to know now is, why didn't mum and dad put us in a bar with a big drink each today too? Big drink + not touch sand = good. No drink + close contact with sand = horrible.
After Coro we went to Merida. There we spent several days because there were much to see and to do there. We found an ice-cream shop there with many strange flavours of ice-cream. In fact, they have almost 1000 different flavors in total. The most any ice-cream shop in the World has. We wanted to taste all of them but we had to give up after only four.
In Merida mum and dad arranged so that we all four could go on an adventure trip to Los Llanos, a huge savannah east of Merida. Mum and dad promised a lot of adventures
Closer to the sand than ever
Now we are really close to that awful sand. We are in dad's big backpack but we don't feel safe. What if the sand jumps up and bite us? on this trip. We would see big snakes, capybaras, fire flies, piranhas, dolphins and caymans. We asked if we maybe could be able to see some
ewoks,
a centaur or two or maybe
a Stegosaurus. Mum said that they promised to tell us as soon as any of these animals showed up but that we should know that these animals are very rare in Venezuela. It seems like all animals that we think are really fun are rare everywhere. Wonder why? We hope mum and dad next time bring us to a country where we can see our favourite animals too and not only theirs.
On the first day it wasn't too promising though. All we found was a tiny tiny snake. It wasn't big enough to impress us and certainly not to scare us. We started to think that this trip might not be as much as an adventure as we hoped for.
But already on the second day things got a lot better. We went on a boat trip and there we a lot of funny animals. We saw capybaras and we saw a big snake (very venomous and very deadly), we saw a cayman close to the boat
Church in Coro
Nice church we found in Coro. Nice colours and everything. Too bad it was closed. and we saw many other dangerous animals. We were a little afraid but not even once did mum and dad show any fear. They just leaned closer to the dangerous animals so they could get better photos. Mum and dad are so brave! They are our heros!
After the boat trip we went on more adventures. We first went on anaconda hunting and after that we went piranha fishing. Both the piranhas and the snakes were really dangerous. They could easily have killed us if we hadn't been careful.
Jean-Claude: "Well, actually one piranha tried to take a bite out of me...".
Emma: "It was your own fault stupid. You shouldn't have kept your nose so close to him."
The rest of the vacation we will tell about in the nexxt entry of the blogg.
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Jealous
Malte Malaria says that he's got relatives around to see in Venezuela - and I don't that I know of! But I don't know if I dare to with t h o s e snakes around! Maybe if my Dad (Axel) comes along in a while.. And even my Grandma thought those snakes were big!