Getting Ripped-Off

Carelessly, we forgot to fill up at the town of Santa Elena by the border, which was the last chance to buy diesel for a long while. In the end, we found some at this small Indian village where these 4 boys were only glad to sell some to us at about R3.50 a litre, which seemed cheap to us at the time, until we found out the true price of diesel here

This is the Chavez life

July 2nd 2007
After 4 memorable months, it was finally time to say goodbye to Brazil and hello to Venezuela - the land of free petrol and no eggs. Venezuela is an interesting, but not too welcoming of a place to visit. Political tension is always in the air and the communist mood is inescapable. We had to quickly get used to societal climate change - coming from the warm, caring Brazilian people to the col ... read more

South America » Venezuela » Zulian » Maracaibo

Venezuela was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others being Colombia and Ecuador). For most of the first half of the 20th century, Venezuela was ruled by generally benevolent military strongmen, who ... ... read more

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