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South America » Venezuela » Guayana » Ciudad Bolívar July 30th 2012

Hello everybody, this is my last blog from my 4-week trip to Venezuela. I left Merida by nightbus towards Valencia. The journey was long and tiring. In the morning I arrived in Valencia. In Valencia I have several friends who I actually know through the internet (penfriends) since 1999 / 2000 and I kept in contact with them until today. Facebook helped a lot to maintain these friendships. Valencia is the third largest city of Venezuela with about two million people. It's also the capital city of Carabobo state. The city is quite big and it has a lot of industries in its outskirts. The current metro-system consists of one line with 7 stations and there are more stations in construction. A ride in the metro is cheap (Bs. 1). The city also has a small, ... read more
Puerto Cabello
Valencia by night
Puerto Cabello

South America » Venezuela » Llanos » Apure July 19th 2012

Hello everyone, this is my third blog from Venezuela! I left Coro on a nightbus towards the southwest and arrived about 12 hours later in Merida. Merida is a well known tourist destination in Venezuela. It lies in the Venezuelan Andes mountains, with its highest peak (Pico Bolivar, 5002m). The city has a bit more than 200.000 people and is cheaper compared to Caracas, Maracay and Valencia. It's very famous for having the world's highest cable car (teleferico) reaching a height of 4700m with various stations along the way. The cable car has been closed for over 4 years now as it's going through a mayor renovation. The system was built by dicator Marcos Perez Jimenez in the late 1950's. The city lies at approx. 1600m and has a nice, cool climate. During the day you ... read more
Llanos de Apure landscape
Merida landscape
Perro Nevado, typical Andean dog

South America » Venezuela » Falcón » Coro July 11th 2012

Hola, ¿que tal? This is my second blog from Venezuela! In Caracas I took a bus towards Maracay, capital of Aragua state where I met with my friends Richard and Zuleyka. Maracay is a city with just over a million people, the 4th largest in Venezuela behind Caracas, Maracaibo and Valencia. It isn't a tourist destination at all, most tourists use it as a hub when going towards the coast of Aragua (places like Choroní, Ocumare etc). The city is quite industrial, many things are manufactured here. I didn't find it a nice city in general, I actually went because I know people there. When I arrived, Richard picked me up at the busstation and we went home. The kids, Mei-Ling and Sebastian, came home from the neighbour, we had lunch and I rest a little ... read more
Torre Sindoni, Maracay
With Richard, Zuleyka and kids in Maracay
Bahia de Cata

South America » Venezuela » Capital » Caracas July 4th 2012

¡Hola panas! This is my first blog from my 4-week trip in Venezuela! República Bolivariana de Venezuela lies in the north of South America, has an area of about 912.000 square km and more than 28 million people. Venezuela is our southern neighbour!!! Many Venezuelan tourists visit Curaçao, many Curaçao people "used to" go to Venezuela, but not that much anymore. Many still go for health reasons, as Caracas has excellent clinics and doctors/surgeons where they offer services that aren't available in Curaçao, or that there is a long waiting list for. In Curaçao we use many Venezuelan products as well. There is poverty in Venezuela, but it's not worse than in other Latin American countries. Venezuelans are known for being very nationalistic, patriotic and chauvinistic. Well....I believe they have the right to be as such ... read more
Plaza Altamira
Parque del Este
at Parque del Este with my cousins Juan Carlos and Carin

South America » Venezuela » Capital » Caracas June 20th 2012

WARNING: THE TRUTH WILL BE INCLUDED IN THIS BLOG ONLY WHERE IT IS CONSIDERED TO BE AMUSING ENOUGH. My first stop on this trip was Caracas in Venezuela. The photograph taken in the city centre (see first photo) is more interesting for what you can see in the background. Like several cities that I had previously visited in South America surrounded by mountains, the poorer dwellings are built right up to the peak of the mountain. However, the difficulty here was that only Citibank cards work in the cash machines. I could use my cards for hotel bills and excursions, but I was having to use my 'emergency dollars' for food, etc. Venezuela would not have been a problem if I had brought a large amount of dollars with me. For this reason I only stayed ... read more
Tomb Of The Unknown Traveller

South America » Venezuela » North-Eastern April 25th 2012

Hola a todos Ya estoy en la cuarta semana aquí en la granja y me doy cuenta que todavía no he presentado el equipo. Somos: Keith el jardinero jefe, Alex su asistente, Hannah y Lizzie quienes son aprendices, Al el eventual (trabaja nada mas en primavera y verano) y Bridget y yo, los voluntarios. Así que somos 6 personas quienes manejamos 10 ha de terreno. Todos menos yo y Bridget trabajan 5 días a la semana, 7:30am – 4:00pm. Nosotros empezamos 2 horas después en la mañana, a las 9:30am. Aparte del personal hay un tractor y un motocultor que se utilizan para cultivar la tierra además de otras labores. Por el resto casi todo se hace sin maquinaria pesada. Todos los días hacemos las diversas tareas según el plan maestro de Keith. La semana pasada, ... read more
Azadon con rueda
Aflojando a la tierra
Echando el compost

South America » Venezuela » North-Eastern April 18th 2012

Hola a todos Estoy comenzando mi tercera semana aquí en la Granja. Todavía hace frío, pero los días están alargando y estamos preparando la tierra y sembrando. Sin embargo, como les dije, aquí siempre estamos haciendo de todo – sembrando, cosechando y haciendo mantenimiento del área del cultivo. Así que esta semana, les voy a hablar de la cosecha. Y lo que me llama la atención es que no se cosecha todo el cultivo de una vez como se suele hacer en Caripe. Por ejemplo, la siembra de ajo porro hemos cosechado como 5 veces ya y todavía queda. Cada vez seleccionamos solamente los ajo porros más grandes – siempre cuidando que no hayan florecidos ya que al florecer se pone dura e incomestible el tallo. Incluso quitamos las raíces y medio limpiamos los ajo porros ... read more
"Pre Emergent Flame Weeding"

South America » Venezuela » Capital » Caracas » Altamira March 3rd 2012

Caracas Saying goodbye to the Southern hemisphere, we left for Santiago airport at 5:30 am on February 24th and we finally boarded a plane that left on time! This will definitely be our last early morning flight. After one stop and two movies (Due Date and Just Go With It) we arrived earlier than schedueld in Caracas, Venezuela and breezed through customs and luggage claim. However after that we had quite the experience, to say we were bombarded by the locals is an understatement. They were expediting their taxi services to the city as well as their "cambio", which is the money exchange. In Caracas there is a black market for money exchange and some people can fetch up to a maximum of double the bank rate, needless to say we made use of "no, gracias" ... read more
Yum!
Plaza Bolivar
Hiking in Curaçao

South America » Venezuela » Portuguesa » Acarigua February 19th 2012

Solía pensar pero dejé para mí aquello que pasaba por la mente, intelecto inteligente ha de reconocerme eso tal nunca presupuesto alerté, sigo tratando con sumo protocolo, satisfacer mi deseo por sor estridente, al ton cuando toque la marcha marco ésta última estrofa o siguiente, dónde someto ajeno telos para saciar inquietud displicente, enruto cada deseo así doy colmado el cumplido te complemente. Ahora las cosas siguen otro rumbo desconocido, cómo si todo allá sido en vano, no concuerda mi instinto, con el resto de dardos, dado mi espíritu intranquilo nunca quieto yazgo, plácido es desconocido concepto en vocabulario que gesto dicho prontuario, amplíe entonado fraseo mientras pronuncio sujeto, verbo, conjugado, copula, predicado y adjetivo. Quede clasificado cada calificado como c... read more

South America » Venezuela » Capital » Caracas » Altamira February 12th 2012

Hellooooooooo So it has been quite some time since I've blogged or whatever. Never really seems like there's much to say, but I suppose I should give it a go! I left off in November I think before the awesomeness that was Britney. Awesome it was! The Zuelans are mental at a pop gig! Hilarious. Epic journey to get there, one where we genuinely thought that the taxi driver was taking us somewhere remote to kill us. Nice. Got there safe and sound, however, and had a great time. Ignore the reviews, she's wonderful. End of. Christmas term brought lots of rain to Caracas, flooding the roads and meant that school was shut for about a week. The mighty Chavez decides that if one school has to close due to flooding, then we all do! Happy ... read more
The second beach
The slide
Bob on a boat!




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