Fellow Adventurers, Our first leg of the trip is planned. We took into consideration all factors and settled on skipping Caracas all together due to its reported criminality and political tension. However tempting it would be to see the homeland of Simon Bolivar, we will save it for when the capital is free of its current stranglehold, hopefully that is sooner than later. November 12th, we will be departing for Caracas from Miami, from there we will fly directly to Ciudad Bolivar. From there, we will establish our 2-3 day journey to Canaima / Angel Falls. After our trek to the falls we will return to Cuidad Bolivar to arrange a (very long!) bus across the sparsely populated central plains of Venezuela named Los Llanos to the city of Barinas. Barinas is simply a place to switch our bus in route to the border city of San Cristobal from where we will cross into the Colombian city of Cucuta. This rote will help us to avoid the tension of the major population centers of the northern coast while still accomplishing the goal of seeing Angel Falls. We hope to do all of this within 6 days, at minimum a week, but I have a feeling not all will go as planned. That is the name of the game I suppose.
We continue to stay consistent with our saving and planning and time seems to be going by lightning fast. I am confident that our goals will be met, but the anxiety of the wait weighs heavily upon myself sometimes. I am looking forward to escaping the mundanity of my office job for days of counting time in miles.
I will, within the next few weeks be posting similar post with our detailed plans for Colombia and Ecuador, as well as other nations in the months ahead.
The point of no return is soon approaching. I took August 17th off as a day of celebration and plan to purchase our departing flight then.
$7000ish saved
$9000ish to go
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Updated Venezuela map after the break:
(7/14/2011)
Destinations:
Cuidad Bolivar -
Angel Falls -
Barinas -
San Cristobal -
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