Norman's Blog

 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...

 To Merida   We left Santo Domingo. The plan was to have a truck breakfast in the grounds of the hotel and then a long drive. It had started...