stories from and about south america
After the adventure in Venezuela, I moved through Colombia quickly, taking a flight from Cucuta through Bogota to the city of Cali. By the time I arrived in this city, it was already late, and I had not planned on spending any time here. (I should have probably spent a day … Read more...
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Removed as we were from reality, we did have to return to the outside world, and the morning of the long trek back arrived. The bus was to leave Maracay at 4.30 pm, so we had to leave Choroni at around noon. We packed, had a quiet … Read more...
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Maracay is not a huge town, and it was not too difficult to find the right transportation from there to Choroni; a private taxi that would take us the next 50 kms for the grand sum of about 10 dollars. Before we got in the taxi though, … Read more...
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It was the following morning, and I had gotten over not having been allowed to take the cacao pod home – it would have been a nice souvenir, unlike what most people get as souvenirs, but then again, Canada Customs would have impounded it and possibly charged me with … Read more...
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Leaving Barquisimeto behind, I set out for San Felipe – one of the shorter bus trips in this journey. There I was to meet up with my friend with the debit card and the cash; not that I had much need of it yet, the first trip from … Read more...
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