http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Venezuela , Capital , Caracas en-us Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:55:04 BST Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:55:04 BST desde el norte hasta el surf y del sur al forte http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-306878.html 2 days of travelling to get to Los Rocques in Venzuela started with a morning on the beach before saying goodbye to Pucon most agreeable. A trip in the taxi with The Bunk to the airport before flying to Santiago.Santiago appears surrounded by hills and looked impressive as the sun set in the distance. Our airport hotel did the job and the pain of the previous day's bike ride was slowly diminish http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-288442.html Its funny how life tends to work out. Of course in order for life towork outlife usually had to have thrown you a few curveballs...and probably beaned you with one or two of them...But since Ive resolved to be the glass half full type this morning Ill focus on the good stuff namely that I have finally embarked on an escursion. SO sans sense and sensibility and the major working of a p http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-287809.html Here I am in Caracas finding it horrendously expensive even though Im not paying for accommodation. Should be leaving fairly soon. Ive been having a great time and have been accompanied most of the time by various hospitality club and couchsurfing members so thats been great fun. Ive tasted the national beer Polar and I can safely say its far nicer than Brazilian beer ha ha... Ive alrea http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-281928.html Arrived in Caracas yesterday afternoon and was almost instantanously overjoyed by the ensuing heat. My plane journey was anything but uneventful Firstly when I arrived at the airport I checked in and the lady behind the desk said something about tax I thought oh great more expense but I went into a side office and they gave me 60000 pesos just under 20 pounds confused but a good start. Most http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-267694.html 1 Parada La frontera la gran sabanaTras cruzar la frontera brasileirovenezolna llegamos a Santa Helena. Como comentamos en el ultimo post Aimar se fue con unos amigos a ver el Salto del Angel. Para sus seguidores Aimar esta todavia incomunicado e incomunicable y ya os contara pronto de su aventura en su propio blog. Nostros conti9nuamos nuestro viaje disfrutando de la gran sabana Venezola http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-260483.html So the next leg of the journey begins bright and early with a departure from Rio and a sad goodbye to Matt with several fresh faces on the truck which itself is different along with our new driver Euan and our tour guide Mark. Newbies include a couple of Aussie couples Matt Sonya Dean Jana another Aussie Andy 3 dudes from Hong Kong Chung Yiu and Jonny Doug Laandoner Tracy http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-257446.html Uff finalmente in Sudamerica. Il volo stato meno peggio di ci che pensassi. la differenza oraria solo di quattro ore rispetto a Tenerife per cui il famigerato jet leg mi ha risparmiato stavolta. Il venezuela da questi pochi giorni passati qui un pentolone pieno di olio il cui coperchio salter in aria da un momento all'altro facendo non poche vittime. La citt stracolma di mendicant http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-241495.html After a six hours on the bus we arrived in Caracas froze to the core. The air con on the bus was ridiculous and the only restbite was when we stopped for lunch which I used to heat up in the sun We also had chance to taste our first Arepa similar to a pita and filled with roast pork cheese and salad very filling. Once at the bus station we tried to haggle for a taxi but they all wanted dou http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-234440.html For anyone who was concerned....yes I am still alive And if you were worried about the story getting boring...fear not...its like a fine wine and only gets better The only problem is that I havent written in so long that some of the details have gotten fuzzy or mixed together. Plus I hate to write super long entries because I feel that they get boring and monotonous...but look at me now.. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-234378.html so I am already in Germany finally came this afternoon after missing my transit flight and spending a day in Madrid. Michal is not so lucky he is still in Caracas and really not happy about it. Its a horrible city with horrible people and dangerous as hell. There are military and police walking around with machine guns and you cannot trust them one bit. Air France Venezuela suddenly decide http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-230575.html Hola Amigos and greetings from a sunny and funny South America Siento haber tardado tanto en escribir. For those non bilingual friends of ours we are sorry it has taken us so long to write Even if the sightseeing has been put on hold for a bit at least we are learning something rightWe landed in SantiagoChile on the 30th October and are becoming increasingly sad that our trip of a http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-219953.html Suddenly I'm in Venezuela and everything is fucking greatI arrived on Saturday evening jetlagged and tired as hell. The next morning I woke up on the 30th floor with this AMAZING view of the whole city... this is the best trip ever. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-217115.html After arriving in Manaus on Monday evening we flew to Caracas to spend a few days in Venezuela. Our flight was an overnighter we arrived about 6am Tuesday morning ... and being that we were waken up by sweet little children on the boat at 5am and couldnt sleep on the plane we arrived rather cranky and wanting to just be on our way. The goal was to get to Angel Falls ... the worlds tallest wate http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-216671.html So we went to Caracas. If you ask me how the trip went it'd be pretty hard for me to give you a straight answer. Let's just say it was interesting as they seem to go around here. We got out of class at 8pm last Thursday and headed to our houses to frantically throw the last of our things in our bags. Then we headed out for the bus terminal which was about a half a mile from our neighborhoo http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-212574.html Hi everyone.Thanks for your various messages. We have arrived safely in Margarita after a very long day 3 flights. We were travelling for 22 hours Chris has worked out on his GPS that we are 4400 miles from home. The villa is quite nice lovely big room private terrace swimming pool but no air con. However beers at 15p each we cant complain Just had lunch for 4 which cost 18 pounds s http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-207364.html Hn afmli dag hn afmli dag JEi jEi. Mn kra vinkona Aalbjrg er orin 22 ra.Til hamingju med daginn sta mn vildi a g gti komi kkur til n. Fkkstu SMSi fr mr. a er rugglega a drasta sem g hef sent vinni hehe. Knstu Betu bjt fr mr og Fannar lka. Sakna ykkar allra http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-198606.html Arrived safely in Caracas it was a bit stressful when we arrived a lot of officals coming up to us speaking in Spanish surprise surprise but our guide was there to meet us which we were very thankful for....Myself and Ida were like two wet rags after the flight but Emma was buzzing and looked great coming in from Lisbon maybe something to be said for those LARIUM tablets after all....Off http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-195920.html Im writing all this a few days after since its been bloody hard to get to the net for an extended amount of time but since Ive kept a diary of stuff I can update online.However the idiot that I am left my camera back in the hostel were staying in so will have to upload pics another day..sorrySo yeah I finally found Graeme in the airport in Lima we went to an airport hotel and watched a bit http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-193062.html The journey was bad enough to begin with. I had to get back to Ecuador so the Dragoman tour continued towards Brazil without me setting off at 8am. I had a nightbus back to Caracas that night at 10pm which meant waiting around by myself for FOURTEEN HOURS. And the nightbus itself was a ten hour journey. Plus when I arrived at Caracas airport I would have a further eight hours to wait for my f http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-190049.html Once the girls left i felt a bit sad yeah didint fancy them i mean look at the local lasses they even accused me of being gay as i didnt fancy them they were strange CRAZY fun.Really nice and helpful my 1st few days were excellent thanks to them. Real contenders for the girl of the trip award. Looking forward to seeing them again may be on this trip or maybe in shef for the reunion par http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-186525.html What am I doing Why am I going What am I going to do All useless questions and I do not have the answers School finished on Friday and I went to 2 weddings this weekend shattered. Yesterday and today Irsquove been sorting out insurance and medical stuff packing sorting things out for people to look after my house and all that stuff.I'm tired still got the end of academic year headache http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-185109.html We were told that Caracas was big ugly unfriendly and dangerous. I am sure it is all those things but we went along determined to make the best of our time there.We were staying at the Hotel Floresta at Altamira. We had an 8th floor room with a great view. And a fridgeOur first job on arriving was to book a hotel near the airport for the night of the 30th. We had a very early flight and were wa http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-183935.html Wow... I knew I didn't really keep my Blog up to date... but that I actually didn't write about anything of my Venezuela Experience exept the arrival somehow slipped my mind... Well... month have passed I have seen a lot of this country and still there are so many things left that I did not manage to visit and now it's already time to say good bye and start once again a new journey... So I'l http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-182018.html well as the title says we are in Caracas.... but an interesting last few days.... here it goes...well tayrona in colOmbia was awesome the best beach i have seen in my life... so far... there was crashing surf sandy beaches adn giant boulders placed in picture perfect places... a great day and wished we could have spent more time but we couldn't as we were off to venezuela...so after spending an gr http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-178155.html On my last full day in Ecuador I headed for the nearby volcano of Cotopaxi for a fun day's mountain biking. It's the thing to do. For once the gods were shining on me and we all 15 of us on the tour had an amazing clear day a rare thing I believe around Quito. We were driven up the mountain to near the base camp and then basically given our bikes helmets and knee and elbow protectors and to http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-176953.html So here we finally are the famous group emails are no more a new era has begun the first entry into the blog commences...I start with an apology for the absence of photos. Uploading them involves a lot of paraphenalia and as you will see i am still a little wary about carrying round expensive stuff especially as it is approaching sunset when the badboys come out. I promise when i am out of Carac http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-175249.html Hi there The flights over where fine still i think 9 hours on a plane pushes my comfort zone a little too far. Madrid airport is something else Beautiful clean and modern.As the plane came into land in Caracas the view out the window was spectacular huge mountains covered in greenery with little communities dotted all around them right down to the sandly beaches and clear blue wate http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-174683.html We have now started our vacation trip. The destination this time is Venezuela. We first arrived in Caracas. We have heard a few horror stories from Caracas such as people getting robbed already at the airport Caracas being the city with the highest murder rate in Latin America and taxi drivers being criminals. Well the last statement maybe isnt a surprise. Taxi drivers are criminals all over th http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/Capital/Caracas/blog-171608.html