Blogs from Santa Fé, Guayana, Venezuela, South America

We headed further north to Cumana, a city on the coast not really knowing why we headed there! We were just heading closer to Caracus and hoping to see some nice places on the way. One thing I was hoping to see was the Guacharo (oilbird) which is a nocturnal bird and every evening about 10-15,000 leave the cave similar to bats looking for food and can imagine this being a amazing sight. Unfortunately we checked around a few hostels and with it being off season nobody was going there and it would be too difficult for us to try and arrange on our own so it's something we would have to miss. We headed to a small fishing village called Santa Fe to chill out for a few days. The place had an o.k beach ... read more

Intercity buses in Venezuela: not particularly punctual, unfriendly staff, and a stupid obsession with having to keep the curtains closed. I thought we had scored with our seats at the front on top of a double decker. But when the lady wouldn't let me open the curtains we were horrified. Maybe it would get too hot or maybe it would make watching the tele difficult. Whatever the reason, we were not amused. I popped a Dramamine and we had a marathon game of Monopoly on Pieter's phone. And the lunch stops are generally at disgusting dirty restaurants where you have to pay first and get a voucher to present for your food. And the cashier would often be a bottleneck, making the whole process time consuming and unpleasant. It took most of the day to get ... read more

well the last few days blew by and we haven´t had a chance to internet lately so here´s the scoop... we left from caracas... the foursome now... and headed to puerto la cruz for a night in a cheep hotel complete with bloody sheets... the next morning we headed over to isla de margarita for three nights of todo incluido... it was an anmazing hotel on playa humo by itself and had great pools nightly shows(more about these later) and piña coladas... the last two might be related... well we had a relaxing time enjoying ourselves... and the nightly shows we all participated stu and rachel danced the first night and i played some copying game which was ok... but the best of all was Kyle or should i say... Señor portofino... it was awesome... so ... read more

sodeli, cumana isch wohl saelteschte staedtli vo suedamerika, aber wuerkli nuet bsunderigs. eifach halt e staedtli so wie alli andere au. da wo alt isch gseht mer leider nuemmer wuerklich, aber isch eigentli au egal gsi. hemmer doch e wunderbari posada gfunde, wohl eini vo de schoenschte wommer uf uesere reis gha hend. so bundig im kolonialstiel mit innehof, mega schoene zimmer und au suess eifach schoen. sind denn noch uesere akunft zerscht mol chli is staedtli gange. hend oeppis zmittag gaesse und denn simmer uf poscht und is internet. meh hemmer eigentli noed gmacht, aber wie gseit, es het eigentli au noed viel zmache gseh. am obig hemmer ir posada chli billard und suesstigi spieli gspielt und sind denn wieder mol friedlich go penne. herrlich gschlofe und endlich wiedermol e dunkels zimmer, so dassmer au ... read more