After being eaten alive in Canaima by Puri Puri's ad mozzies, we decided to stay an extra night in Ciudad Bolivar. We stayed in the same place, the Posada Don Carlos, but this time we opted for the cheaper accommodation option and stay in the hammocks. It was cool sleeping in hammocks, B opted to sleep on a mattress on the floor.
Ciudad Bolivar is a pretty boring place, nothing much to see and do.. You could go people watching but it was more like the opposite, they where watching you. Probably thinking ''how much money can I get out of that gringo' I'm talking about the police here. The town itself is very pretty with lots of colourful buildings, pink, blue, yellow, green and white to name a few of the colours used to paint buildings.
B took about 300 photos just on the buildings. Other than that there really isn't much else to see and do in the town except to sit in the hammock and watch time go by.... And in South America for some reason time goes by really, really, really slow... So you would just hate to be in prison....2 years would probably be like an eternity...
Not knowing where to go and what to do for the rest of our time in Venezuela we had decided to narrow our options down to three.
a) GO to Roraima and climb this puppy
b) GO to Los Llanos and hang out with wildlife
c) GO to Los Roques and sit on the beach and chill
We chose to go with option (b) Los Llanos.....Sounded fun, 4 day tour in Los Llanos, the promise of seeing; anaconda's, fresh water dolphins, caimans, capybaras, birds, iguanas, more birds, piranhas and did I mention the birds.. over 380 species of birds..... Pity we had no binoculars to see the damn birds... or a telephoto lens for our SLR to take photos with. But what can you do...
So where off to Los Llanos!!!! Be there or Be square...
Peace
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