Venezuela

Coucou tout le monde,

Finalement, on a pris un avion pour aller voir les tropiques. Les vrais tropiques avec une chaleur etouffante...Donc, petite journee commencee a 5h du mat, pour attendre 3h en avance a l'aeroport de Quito. Tout ca pour payer les taxes d' aeroports. 3 decolages et atterissages plus tard, on fut arrive a Isla Margherita. Il etait quand meme 9h du soir. On a experimente le bordel ambiant a Caracas, les vieux coucoux mais a jet propulseur pour aller a margherita, et finalement les cocotiers a notre destination finale. On fut approprietement conduit par des parents d'une amie de nos amis dans un hotel, anciennement militaire, mais bizarement encore occupe par trop d' uniforme a notre gout. Y' avait la climatisation, une piscine geante, 2 anciens forts espagnols a quelques centaines de pas et la plage et les cocotiers et la mer des caraibes idealement places sous notre fenetre. Finalement, on a decide que l' on pouvait certainement tres bien vivre en harmonie avec ce genre de communaute...........

After a month spent in Ecuador, it was time to go and see other places. The trip from Ecuador to Venezuela was not easy at all: in one day, we had to use at least two aircraft (at least one was a jet, and I have to say relatively recent), take off and land at least 3 times (My face went respectively white, green and blue), pay 5 different kinds of airport, national or leaving taxes, and were forced to eat the on-board food (That didn’t help about the colour of my face)) Caracas airport was messy enough to forget it and was quickly skipped. We finally arrived in Isla Margherita where we had arranged a meeting at the airport with the mum of a friend of a friend... Isla margherita is located in the north of Venezuela, which is to say on the border of the Caribbean Sea. We were led to a former military hostel which was, strangely enough, still full of uniforms and guns……..Fortunately, an air conditioned system, a swimming pool, two ancient Spanish forts at walking distance and the sea and the beach with coco trees just below our window were determinant to convince us to accommodate with this charming community. We did enjoy very much all of that but; yet, found a urge to go on for something else quite quickly….