We´re in Merida. After our trip back to the airport near Caracas, we flew to Merida. Just arrived yesterday and it´s already better. The city is smaller, slower, cleaner. It was built to hold less people than now inhabit the area. The teleferico scales the Andean slope. It starts here in the city, which sits in a large valley, ad climbs to the peak of this part of the Andes. Tomorrow morning we go up. At about 5 in the morning because it´s a slow gondola ride and many tourists are here at the moment. The posada we´re staying at is very nice. It has an older, colonial style with stained glass, ceramic tiles, and nice rooms with two beds, not one "matrimonial" bed. I don´t trust Bill enough for one of those. Today, we drove
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