The green hills of the Andes near Merida

Venezuela - the land of chaos

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August 12th 2008
In terms of general uselessness and chaos, Venezuela is light years ahead of any country we’ve visited so far. I shall try and explain. On our first 27-hour-should-have-been-20-hour bus journey, the bus actually ran out of petrol. Maybe it was the 90-minute-should-have-been-15-minute taxi ride at 1am trying to find a posada (hostel) that didn’t have a smidgen of a sign post out the front (a ... read more

South America » Venezuela » Andean » Mérida

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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