Ciudad Bolivar Travel Blogs

A strange, deserted town with an immaculate, colonial-era old city.  We stayed in a beautifully converted villa/hostel with a polished wood bar, open courtyard, and a bunch of blissed-out traveler types.  We ate dinner at an expat lounge with green pet parrots and the next day sat on a fo…

In Ciudad Bolivar airport we were picked up by the guys from the Tour Operator and posada owner Gekko Tours. It's a German travel agency, trustworthy and good value for money. It's Gekko Tours who own all the small Cessna planes taking tourists to Canaima. They also run different posadas throughout…

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We were supposed to take a coach to Ciudad Bolivar in the morning from a terminal that´s some 20 kilometres from Caracas downtown. As informed by the tourist information, the taxi fare would be some 150 dollars if from the airport and some 80 if from the city center. Didn´t believe it a single bi…

The best of Venezuela in three weeks: Pico Bolivar, Merida, Los Llanos, La Gran Sabana & The Caribbean!

After Santa Fe, Bolivar seems to have a lot more tourists here, we are staying in a really nice posada (hotel) which is run by a belgian, we have booked a trip to angel falls and been able to change soem money at a proper rate. Have also been able to chat to some other travelrs which is good

An attempt to reconstruct my travelling to South America back in 2002. From diaries and emails - under construction! Sorry photos back then were taken on oldfashioned films!

Caught our plane back to Ciudad Bolivar this morning - a little rougher than the trip up, but still fine.  Had McDonalds for lunch, the first time in months, and did some internet updating to find out what`s been happening in the world.  On the way back, found a terrific little shop calle…

We went to the Iesus Soto Museum. He is the inventor of Cinetisism (sp?) and the museum was quite fascinating. The upstairs classics section is the best. His art is the kind of stuff you would expect to see in one of these optical illusions that come around by email every once in a while but I thin…

I have always wanted to see Angel Falls. Finally I got around to it the during my 2nd trip to Venezuela and Colombia. I have also visited the Gran Sabana, Ciudad Bolivar, Cartagena and Tovar during this trip. Table top mountains, tropical city scene, beautiful beaches and Spanish forts, and even a German colony in the hills, this trip had it all

The journey back to C. Bolivar involved 3 hours in a minibus that must have been 200 years old and had brakes that needed an hours`notice. We called the van `The Death Trap`. We arrived back in Bolivar from Canaima at about 5pm so luckily we had about an hour to grab some food before everything s…

Chamos, como esta la vaina? From Puerto La Cruz I took a night-bus to Ciudad Bolivar. As I fell asleep, I missed the stop and ended up in a town called San Felix, 100km too far, in the middle of the night. There was little more I could do than just waiting for the first bus back to Ciudad Bolivar.…

   Wake-up was at 0600 to give enough time to shower and meet downstairs at 0630. We all piled into a minibus along with our Spanish-only speaking driver & headed off through Caracas. After a while we stopped off for an authentic Venezuelan breakfast of Arepas with Chorizo, coffee &am…

Hello All,Today the main focus of my day in Ciudad Bolivar was to figure out how I was going to do the Angel Falls trip. The trip is almost entirely standardized these days. They are all 3 days/2 nights, and fly the first day to Canaima. That afternoon you are scheduled to tour the area around t…