Blogs from Capital, Venezuela, South America - page 8

1ª Parada: La frontera - la gran sabana Tras cruzar la frontera brasileiro-venezolna, llegamos a Santa Helena. Como comentamos en el ultimo post, Aimar se fue con unos amigos a ver el Salto del Angel. Para sus seguidores, Aimar esta todavia incomunicado e incomunicable y ya os contara pronto de su aventura en su propio blog. Nostros conti9nuamos nuestro viaje disfrutando de la gran sabana Venezolana, la cual la visitamos durante un par de dias en compañia de otro vagamundo aleman llamdo Simon. 2ª Parada: Ciudad Bolivar Y llegamos a La Ciudad del libertador sudamericano Simon Bolivar. Y llegamos a una ciudad paralizada por la Semana Santa. Empezamos a preguntar y observar que impacto esta teniendo Chavez en Venezuela (es inevitable hablar de politica y asuntos sociales cuando uno viaja, por lo menos si quieres entender ... read more

2 days of travelling to get to Los Rocques in Venzuela started with a morning on the beach before saying goodbye to Pucon, most agreeable. A trip in the taxi with The Bunk to the airport before flying to Santiago. Santiago appears surrounded by hills and looked impressive as the sun set in the distance. Our airport hotel did the job and the pain of the previous day's bike ride was slowly diminishing. 29/2 Back on the plane for the trip to Caracas. Finally managed to buy decent postcards at the airport but getting stamps is like searching for the holy grail. Our seats are 'H' and 'F' which indicated we be sat apart once more. Tough for the wife but a chance for some quiet time for me. Bizarrely H and F were together - ... read more

For anyone who was concerned....yes, I am still alive! And if you were worried about the story getting boring...fear not...it´s like a fine wine and only gets better! The only problem is that I haven´t written in so long that some of the details have gotten fuzzy or mixed together. Plus, I hate to write super long entries because I feel that they get boring and monotonous...but look at me now...wasting precious words. After waiting for Yaneth´s second brother until the Tuesday after the Saturday that he was supposed to show up the three of us girls decided to head to Puerto La Cruz and meet him there. He ended up screwing us in the end...just like the other brother...and we ended up heading back to the island alone. I had a very embarrassing moment while ... read more

Hola Amigos and greetings from a sunny and funny South America! ´Siento haber tardado tanto en escribir´. (For those non bilingual friends of ours - ´we are sorry it has taken us so long to write´) Even if the sightseeing has been put on hold for a bit, at least we are learning something, right??? We landed in Santiago,Chile on the 30th October and are becoming increasingly sad that our trip of a lifetime is drawing to a close...only 3 weeks left! This really is the Final Frontier. After our long flight from New Zealand, we checked into a fab hostel called Andes, dropped the bags and went straight out for dinner. A lovely local restaurant was recommended to us and, knowing us, the flashpackers that we are, we made a beeline to it. Unfortunately the ... read more

Next on Trevor's "must do" list is a visit to Angel Falls, the highest waterfall in the world! After disembarking in Manaus, Brazil on Monday evening, we headed straight for the airport to catch our flight to Caracas, Venezuela. Our flight was an overnighter that neither of us could sleep on (gross - we arrived about 6am Tuesday morning) ... and as we were waken up every morning on the boat at 5am by darling little children, we arrived in Caracas rather cranky and just wanting to be on our way to Angel Falls. We set about to arrange a tour through one of the "tourist" booths at the airport, and things didn't go so well. We have officially had our first experience of being swindled -- BIG TIME. Our first bit of advice for anyone ... read more