Maracaibo Travel Blogs

My flight was scheduled for the morning. There is no direct flight to Lima, so I'd have to fly first to Caracas, pffff. Anyway, it didn't leave early so I wasn't in a hurry. Alejandro came and drove me to the airport. I had a great time in Maracaibo, but wasn't ready to go back home. Actually I'm n…

ok, the last day was here. I was tired and wanted to sleep as much as possible the night before, so I didn't ask for any wake up call and slept until my body said: Get up! I took a really nice shower and started packing. I was just for 1 day in Maracaibo, so packing shouldn't have been hard, but I …

Venezuela is an amazing place. Much different than i expected as it was my first South American country which i assumed would be just like Central America. I found myself in small village towns with dirt "roads"...to large modern cities with 7 story malls!

Where is Chavez?! A country presently divided in two - Los Chavistas and those against the infamous Hugo Chavez.  We were honestly reconsidering coming to Venezuela, due to all the unrest from a pretty important referendum scheduled to take place.  We finally decided to go ahead and visit…

Maracaibo contrasts significantly with Caracas, the institution, and more importantly it's reputation. Taking a vintage copy Aserca DC-9 (birth: 1964) from Caracas, the dimutive airport is noticeably smaller then what you might think the capital of oil should have. Thi…

After the debacle with the Catatumbo trip, I had to rearrange my bus ticket - unfortunately I couldn't go with the original company I booked with (Expressos Merida) as their service to Maracaibo on Sunday at 9pm was full.  The only left was the co-operativo company, which was only asking BsF50…

Hello All,I had breakfast at the hotel, packed up my crap, and got a taxi down to the bus station in time to catch a 9am bus towards the Venezuelan border. There were basically two options I could have taken.  Option one is the easy one, which get me a direct bus from Santa Marta to Maracaibo. T…

Wer arrived at about half 6 in the morning, so it wasn't too hot, we were a bit late for the direct buses to colombia though, so we had to get a porquesto, like a cross between a bus and a taxi, that took us accross the border, whcih was good, apart from all the the stamps we ahd top get and our pa…