We were lucky and managed to get a bus with only 2 stops and got into Ciudad Bolivar before 6am today (only a 9 hr bus ride, vs the 18 we were expecting). We organised our 3-day trip to Angel Falls starting tomorrow morning, and then walked into the town center for a quick lookaround. It is a quaint little place on the Orinoco River - with many colourful houses and historical buildings. We got back to the hotel and found Katy in tears. We had left her to get som...

7/7/08: This was not the start of a holiday that I was hoping for. My plane arrived in Caracas a little after 5am. None of the 4 ATMs at the airport would accept my card. So I had to resort to exchanging cash. I thought that $50 was plenty to get me through the taxi ride, breakfast and lunch until I could find an ATM in the city. The taxi driver dropped me at the hotel and when he told me it was Bs170 ($85) for the 18 mile journey, I thought my Spanish was failin...