Blogs from Caracas, Capital, Venezuela, South America - page 12

Dear all, trying out this web journal for any friends or family who may be interested in where Ruth and I are in the world. It may be a little long winded at first for you but thats because i am catching up! Starting from the beginning, we obviously went to Venezuela first. Spent a couple of days in Caracas then went to a place called Santa Fe on the south coast, in a van we had hired, where we chilled out and did a couple of dives. It was here we met a guy called Tony, a local guide who wanted to take us to an area known as Los Llanos (pronounced Yanos), the main region of Venezuela for bird watching and safari tours. This chap who seemed very nice and had a portfolio of ... read more

Well, everything a little out of synch, again...the 1st photo is here in cracas then we're back on Isla Margarita...oh well.......so, to begin again...OK, I may have been a little harsh again, last time....I've now seen caracas in a new and better light...yes, fahn dining, bars, clubs, gorgeous women...altho' that's also curious..the thing is that ALL girls are raised to be beauty queens...and they believe it!..so they all have a disconcerting way of putting it all out there.....and altho' beauty is only skin deep and yadda yadda, some of them really shouldn't be putting quite soo much out there!...not that I should be commenting, I'm putting a bit out there too!...and there was the episode with the budgie smugglers!...anyway....and they treat the men so mean!...but then, once they're trapped into marriage and kids and gravity and ... read more

AH! ok so here i am sitting at a little internet cafe in La Guaria Venezuela, the little poverty stricken town, yet they have an internet cafe which is amazing. Its only $.50 for an hr where it is $.40 a minute on the ship. Anyway, I love Venezuela and i think you should all move here. Why you ask? Well, first of all, the gas is cheap and when i mean cheap i mean cheap, cheaper than water. It is only $.12 a gallon here. Yes as in 12 cents!! I dont understand why its so expensive back at home, $4.00 im hearing? They said here that they have enough oil to fill 500million barrels a day for 300 years. Anyway to get off that tangent, the food here is great as well. Very delicious. ... read more

It all started so well, after a quick hop across the channel I was in Spain - no problems! I should have known things were going too well. At Madrid the flight to caracas was delayed by 2 hours! They didn't tell us this until we were on the plane though!? After sitting for 2 hours in a cramped seat between two huge Venezuelans we eventually took off!!...15 mins after take off the pilot said the plane had a problem and we have to go back and land in Madrid! No one knew what was going on or for how long we'd be there. Eventually after another 2.5 hour delay we boarded the plane again. Iberia´s new planes have a camera fitted to the tail of the so that you can see the aeroplane on the ... read more

Caracas is an overcrowded and poluted city stuck in a valley between two mountain ranges. The traffic is horrible, the streets are dirty, the buildings are uggly and the center is loud. It is surrounded by endless slums where the huge black, indigenous and mixed population live. The center has a few nice colonial buildings that are very well preserved - about six of them. The other few hundred either look like old gigantic cardboard boxes or are new constructions that resulted from the combination of too much money and a lot of bad taste. One of the two tallest towers in the city caught fire and was never renovated, it is just a skelleton above the 20th floor or so. The country side is not any better. Through the endless bus trips I took I ... read more