Ciudad Bolivar city walk

 Ciudad Bolivar city walk

A statue of Simon Bolivar in the Botanical Park. 

His house is a museum and is diagonally opposite across a busy crossroad, but being a Monday, it was closed, part of the international conspiracy that all museums are closed on a Monday. 

                                       
A petrol station...so what is unusual? Petrol and diesel are one Bolivar a litre. Check the exchange rate for whatever currency you are most familiar with. It is unbelieveably cheap, but you have to check but |I will reconfirm that the price is one Bolivar per litre. 

And yes, you can fill your tank for less than the price of a bottle of water. When there is a shortage, people would queue and fill up every container they could. There is no shortage and no queues. 

Some of the prettily painted houses.

More colourful houses. Everywhere seemed to be brightly and frshly painted, few people about and spotleely clean and free of litter. 

A part of the town hall. 

                                       

The Plaza Bolivar, the main square with a statue of him in the centre.

                                       

La Casa de Congroso de Augosturas on one side of the square, where the new republic was agreed and announced.

                                               

On the opposite side is the bell tower of the cathedral.

                                       

The main facade of the cathedral. 

                                       

Just one of the many historical buildings along the river front...

...with several other examples...

...in similar but different styles.