Blogs from Caracas, Capital, Venezuela, South America - page 11

Ok, the capital of this country is ABSOLUTELY INSANE. Seriously, it may be because I haven´t spent a lot of time in a city sooo large, but I just felt completely lost and confused. Haha, it wasn´t all bad - the host family that I was staying with was just the most amazing family - a single mother raising her 3 daughters, 16, 7, and 5 in a city where you can´t go out after dark for fear of robbery, kidnapping or assault. Yikes. But she´s doing it so fabulously that when you´re in her 2-bedroom apartment you´d NEVER imagine that you´re in the middle of a crazy city. The official tally is at about 5 million people, but NOBODY believes that... it is actually impossible to count the people, as they´re packed into everywhere and ... read more

We traveled from Cartagena to Santa Marta,Columbia. We stayed there for 4 nights, Mike went scuba diving one day and we went to Tayrona National Park. The park was beautiful, it was a 45 minute hike through the jungle to get to the beaches. The beaches were untouched, there were no buildings and hardly any people, just a few tourists and fishermen. It was probably the prettiest beach that we have been to. From there we took an 18 hour bus ride to Caracas, Venezuela, which is the capital. This city really is not very nice but we had to come here to get a visa to go to Brazil and go to some airline offices to try and figure out buying a round the world ticket. We came across a website called hospitalityclub.com, which is ... read more

After leaving Utila I got back to Costa Rica, 3 travelling days later... I had to spend another few days in San Jose, which is not the greatest place to spend time in Costa Rica.. But I stayed at Casa del Parque and had a great time with Federico and his family, as always. It's always nice to be here, to have a place to come to where you feel like home. I recommend everyone travelling in Costa Rica to stay there!! Check out www.hostelcasadelparque.com Unfortunately all my San Jose photos has miraculously disappeared.. In case they turn up again they will be up quickly! In San Jose I got a flight ticket to Caracas where I was going to visit Alberto!! Alberto was an exchange student in Sweden and always talked about how beautiful Venezuela ... read more

vo puerto colombia simmer am morge frueh, puenktlich abgholt worde. zrugg ueber die wunderbare berge und denn mit vollcaracho bis noch caracas. well die einti brugg dete im dezember zaemmekeit isch isches vo de stadt ah en beschwerliche waeg. je noch vercher hetmer bis fascht 4 stund wommer ohni wohl gad mol so eini het. however, mir hend wohl eher en glueckliche tag verwuetscht und i stockendem kolonnevercher simmer relativ guet durecho. dschlange wo i gaegerichtig gstande isch, waer denn beduetend groesser gsi...de arm taxi fahrer...am flughafe simmer denn so frueh gsi, wellmer halt vil ziit fuer de taxidrive iplant hend, dassmer nonig mol het choene ichecke, aber e schlange hets trotzdem gha und so sind mir agstande...nochem check-in no sehr fein go aesse im so typisch venezuelanische restaurant namens T.G.I. Fridays, smile. und suess hemmer ... read more

Hi to everyone who's been mailing wondering of my wherabouts- Just to let you know I'm still in the process of actually getting to Quito- ( you impatient lot! hehe!) I'm in Caracas airport- Venezuela. one word: grubby! Dont worry- as soon as I get to Ecuador and have something decent to report, I'll be sure to post! Love Susan ... read more