Friday, January 12, 2007

Venezuela. Caracas - Guanara









We are in a place called Guarana, and are sleeping in a prison cell. But first let me explain how we got here:
After an extremly boring and long journey over here, we ended up in a nice part of Caracas, in a nice hotel with great staff and good location. We had planned to meet Rokil and Gaudy at the airport, but as their plans changed, so did ours. By the time we got to the hotel it was quite late so we had a little to eat then to bed. The next day we spent walking around the city, walking walking walking, and found it to be a really easy, nice city, and great but unhealthy food. Later in the day we went to the>Hilton hotel to do our `lets sneak in and see if they catch us swimming in the pool` trick, but as it was overcast and getting cold, Maurice was the only one who swam, and we were out of there after 30 Min's, so there was no point in them trying to catch us!.
Yesterday we went to the Buenas Artes Art gallery that was close to our hotel, for a couple of hours which was nice, but it was such a big gallery that by the time we had seen all of the modern art we were running out of time to see the rest!. Then we jumped on a bus here. The plan was to go straight to Merida to see the others but the journey is 12 hours from Caracas, so we decided to come here to cut the journey a little.
The buses are really comfortable and spacious, but so so so cold! They played constant movies on the bus, so no closed eyes and everyone keeps quiet! clever!. After watching 4 movies in a row (bad movies at that) we were exhausted, and glad to get to bed.
Oh! yes, were are sleeping in a prison cell, but its a prison converted into a hotel!.
Guanara is nice its quite a religious place, the Virgin Mary once came here apparently. We have spent a nice day walking around the streets, eating the food and checking out all the colourful building and the fab fab cars that they have here, Chevrolet's, Lincons etc, so so cool, the battered up the better AND if they have a mob of Venezuelan hard nuts they look even better!.

Thanks for your emails guys, I will write back to you individually when I get the chance but I think this place is closing soon and Maurice want to get on!
BESOS!



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