We are now in a family-run tourist camp, sleeping in hammocks, sharing very few toilets and hose pipes for showers which are routinely also home to large frogs, crickets, bats and anything else that can crawl or fly into the outdoor facilities. We reached Los Llanos in south western Venezuela…
Venezuela
very violeta Mérida
/ 03/04/2013After 16 hours on a bus through three checkpoints, self-catered lunch at a toilet block on the side of the road and the final hours spent winding up and down the Andes, we reached Mérida in western Venezuela. I was hamstrung for available activities by a lack of funds due…
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/ 29/03/2013Back in South America, starting in Crackers…I mean Caracas. Even if I had been feeling up to going out and exploring on the one afternoon I had in the city, the five keys on my hostel room key ring to get past all the secure doors led me to believe…