Our epic journey is over! We spent a day in Ciudad Bolivar, a pretty town located on the banks of the Orinoco. We had a very quiet day wandering around the city, made even quieter by the fact that Chavez had arrived to give a speech and the majority of the roads had been sectioned off by the Venezuelan police. The silence, coupled with the heat, made the entire place feel like a ghost town. After lunch we lay on a rock in the city park, surrounded by lizards and decided what to do with our lives - the outcome has made us both exceptionally happy.
That evening we began our epic journey that was to last slightly over 20 hours. The journey was relatively uneventful with the only highlight (for me, lowlight for Hannah) being the exceptionally pervy driver who spent a good 5 minutes standing on the stairs, staring at her and licking his lips in a manner reminiscent of a lizard from the park. His noticeable admiration for her made us leave 30 minutes later than we should have...
After we changed buses, the landscape began to change drastically, resembling a Devon moor (although much more dramatic). We are currently in Merida, a town located in the Andes. The city is a student town surrounded by impressive mountainous scenery. We found another nice posada in the centre of the town, close to the Plaza Bolivar, a crucial element for any Venezuelan street plan. Today we visited the Cathedral and the archaelogical museum located inside the University of the Andes. I had a slight spaz over the pottery collection and then proceeded to list all the many common problems found in museums. We also had many scatological conversations. The next few days will be fairly chilled until we decide to partake in some of the many outdoor sports that are on offer here including paragliding and horseriding.
Love Alice and Hannah
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Hi Hannah and Alice – well, I am still jealous of your travels, both the manic active and the more relaxed. But maybe not the 20-hour bus journey (during which I gather there was some empirical basis to the scatological discussion?) Nor Sr. Pervo (was he as bad as the Man in Rome? and what happened in those 30 minutes?...) I could even cope with horses in order to enjoy those huge Andean ecotones – will you go up to the cloud forest? I guess Merida is also a (cheaper) place to go paragliding, but maybe you had better go for tandem flights (not with Pervo).
ReplyDeleteI recommend Coke (settles stomach) with dry salty biscuits (salt, energy) and bananas (potassium, vitamins) – but not all in the same mouthful. In a day or two, progress to some plain rice/cornmeal with grilled chicken (and again bananas or oysters). The final stage is bacon, chocolate mousse, condensed milk and oysters.
Nice lizard imagery, Alice.
Lots of love DadSteve
Hey Hannah and Alice...omg lol to the perve bus driver! creepy eh? but god i know how it feels to be on long journeys! what was the transport like? apart from the perve?
ReplyDeleteloving the scatological conversations you keep having! berlin 'poo' diary take 2??!!
love you both lots and lots...update again soon xxx
“Scatological”; Very Nice.
ReplyDeleteCredit must also go to "DadSteve" for the use of "ecotones".
Alice you don't have to be jealous of the attention Hannah was receiving, I'm sure you'll encounter more perverted bus drivers in your life at some point.
“crucial element for any Venezuelan street plan”? Expert on Venezuelan street design now huh?
And “DEVON MOOR”? I may have to restrict myself to solely reading blog posts written by Hannah now…