Norman's Blog

 El Banco to Cartegena   My hotel in El Banco... ...and the view from the bottom of the street at 6am in the morning, so early as we had 350...

 Across the Andes   Two hours out of Cucuto on the border with Venezuela, we had passed through some low foothills and had started to enter ...

 Leaving Merida, Venezuela  My hotel in Merida, just a stone's throw from the teleferico to Pico Bolivar. My rooms were the two windows,...

 Pico Bolivar  We got back to Merida from Lake Maracaibo at midday. The one thing that I wanted to see in Merida was the cable car.  It was ...

 Lake Maracaibo or Lightning Lake  We hired a taxi and left Merida to go down the valley to sea level. We had left behind the big and slow b...