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Thursday, 'July 17, 2003, by a bus in Brazil, to Manaus
Inspired by the writer who said: "I found two roads in the woods, I took the more 'difficult and less popular, and it' was the right choice," I chose the most 'easy and I went down to Brazil.
Obviously just boarded the bus I met an Australian and an Englishman who had just been in Colombia and they told me that at the present time Venezuela and 'much more' dangerous.
I did not write but due to political crisis (coup failed) and 'increased crime' and a hundred who were killed over the weekend and 'the norm.
You will not believe but the Australian and Queensland didgeridoo with a lot of traveling in tow, we support the stereotypes of the series., English, and instead 'made 3 days in jail in Argentina' cause the guy had pulled up hitchhiking had just stolen the car, and then he had an accident and 'escaped, leaving the English only to suffer the accusations of theft in Spanish (he can say only "cerveza" - beer). 1300 Dollars have solved the problem with a good lawyer.
Do not travel alone guys, take a package, I've always said.

We left at Isla Margarita, is not it? Ok, after a few days of beach, corset abatement Panzetta (funzionano!!), Tric-troc on your computer and a touch of nightlife, but not too much, I decided to go, just in Brazil.
I must say it clearly: Do not take me as an example, if you need to travel independently. A guide like the Lonely Planet, buy it. I have the excuse that
1) I did not know where I was driving so I bought? Caribbean, South America. Central America?
2) In Venezuela, I have not found
3) Usually the latch to help other backpackers, but in Venezuela they are seen
In short, I found myself blocked by a lack of vaccine against yellow fever which do not confirm officially that I was illegally procured as they say on the radio he said, was only a problem of telephone line that has distorted my words.

It 'was a very nice trip from Isla Margarita to Santa Elena de Uariez (border with Brasiu). Since no one seemed to know nothing of ferry and bus schedules I decided, quite logically, to leave early to get as' far as possible in one day destined to travel.
- Wake up at 5:30 in the morning for me, a proponent of "I m'arzo quanno sveglioo" of the Emperor Marcus known in China,
and 'already' a sacrilege.
- Walk up the bus with backpack
- 1 bus to Porlamar (capital city), 1 hour to 12 km
- 1 bus to Punta de Piedra (where there is' the ferry), 1 hour to 15 km
- Arrive at 8 am and the ferry and 'at 10
- Arrival in Puerto la Cruz (mainland) to 12
- Walking with backpack and sun Stonebreaker up at the bus station and the bus and 'at 4
- I'm going to eat and come back at 3, the bus comes at 7.
In short, at 7 I was still a few miles from the point of departure.

But the journey, and 'magic and precisely in a situation like this there were some good times. As usually happens, the misfortunes together and I started talking to a Venezuelan-German who lives in Colombia and it 'had to physically go to his father in a Venezuelan village to take the money because' there 'to a halt transfers in foreign currency.
There and 'arrived' cause our coaches have not done what he did not get into that business could not buy 'cause there was no office. The bus was half empty.

Then I know a Chilean who works for the 'UNICEF with which I make the trip at night and tells me how should I do to collect sponsors for Tripcentre, because she just' deals with these things.
Then down in the middle of the Great Savannah / Sabana and tells me not to lose that 'beautiful.

Then I start talking to a Brazilian very nice to me says:
- "Eu soy shepherd ..."
and while I think of something nice to say about the sheep (I swear), adds
- ".. Yes, evangelist and pastor went to soy Evangelis a Venesuela iglesia en" (boys put us in the midst of the accent and the Brazilian and 'too loud).

By saying the bus was a comfort 'extreme, with reclining seats almost-a-bed and air conditioning, so I said to myself: "I go up instead of stopping in Brazil." And to think twice about it that I took the intercity Italy, twice the air conditioning was not working and once we had two hours late and I did not get the bonus' cause I had not booked (?!?!! ). Oh well. '

But in fact, arrived in this city ', I find that it takes the international certificate against yellow fever and inoculated after the vaccine, you have to wait 10 days. One look at the vultures circling in the Savannah 10 days and I decide that I do not want to spend here.
Having calculated wager money (never do), I found myself with 1,000 bolivars (about 1000 pounds) and I could not get a taxi, so walk away under a thick drizzle up to this place where it first thing in Western I throw myself into a bank and just one hour I will come out with some money ('cause I did not go to the ATM? not take Visa and the account to which I have the Maestro / Cirrus and' almost dry).
Then they put me in a nice hotel a few Schei (7 euros) and go in search of the certificate.
Once fixed the bureaucratic problem apparently insoluble given a hospital in "indefinite strike until 'do not pay us," I do a bike ride through the Gran Sabana, with lots of vultures eating a dead dog, and I get lost with the return sun goes down and the mosquitoes that almost starting to penetrate the layer of Autan.
I try to orient myself with the sun but I realize that I do not understand these modern systems already 'I see myself stone dead to vultures to make dessert and here the grass is a native-foot in civilian clothes and ask the road and his essay with a look of a strong ancient culture, without a moment's doubt, I say, "of the '."
Then I go to the 'e are burning the grass and I arrived 5 minutes later I had to stay by indigenous and speak Swahili with the usual speeches on the Moon and the Great Leopard speaker.

At the end of my adventure is over and everything and even though the 'held at 5 km from Santa Elena, and I' seemed to be a heroic explorer.

Thursday, July 10, 2003, Playa el Agua, Isla Margarita, Venezuela
I admit my reports are often written under the 'influence of drugs. In fact, I noticed that two cups of coffee set in motion my brain in an excellent manner. If we unite then the fact that the thing most 'shameful, absurd, childish, stupid and fun I've ever done in my life and' just been appointed on Radio Deejay, the 'energy increase.
Who would have thought that the famous series of Lt. Cobretti would exit from 'anonymity that an' extension unreadable. Mpg tenderly protected? Do you realize? Who will give me a job now that they know that my real name 'Porchetta?
S and so far I could go back anytime, now the point-of-no-return 'was finally passed. Just as the 'have passed, dear ... Cobretti

With a clear knowledge of the 'definitive removal from the real world, I am going to write some' of these past days.
First, as always at the beginning of a journey, and 'been a week already, and' it seems to me a month. First advantage of travel: you do not live longer 'a long time but you have the strong impression, with the life that you do not slide over him waiting for something that always comes tomorrow and always happens somewhere else. No, we're in the middle, and even if not always' that paradise that appears in the eyes of others, at least we're in the middle.

Chronicle: from Puerto La Cruz, I took a ferry that took me two hours to Isla de Margarita, where I placed randomly on a beach, Playa el Agua, and I found one of the best hotels in the world for value for money: 20,000 bolivars to the change in black for 2400 of € 1 = 8.3 Euros are! It's called the Miramar. www.miramarvillage.com
More in TripGuida but I can already 'say / air conditioning, refrigerator, TV, hot water, towels and sheets daily, wooden beams, very nice environment etc. etc. etc. 8 Euros I had not found either in Bali or Thailand (but be careful that things change in high season).
For the moment, despite the price the same and the lack of some of these facilities, the best remains the Warini of Ubud, Bali with the rooms in the upper left corner, the walls carved by hand and above all being true and vibrant nelcuore Bali with the lady dressed in the morning you are to place ceremonial offerings to the gods out of the room.

Playa el Agua is not 'Ibiza, let's say it right away, but yesterday I made a jump to the disco on the beach and there was movement.
For the rest, and 'a long beach with several isolated areas, where you can' do some 'surf or play ball with the Colombians while drinking whiskey and ask me what team you're a and I, and' a little ' typhoid more than 'I also look bad. Colombians nice, I already 'heard that people are more' likeable South America, almost go there? According to them there is no 'problem, mmmm.
A moment that I explain: I do not know yet whether to go to Central America, Caribbean or South America. I mean, I wanted to go to Central America to get up in Mexico where there is' Manu (see Australia 2000). The problem is 'not there' to arrive in Central America (Panama) without going to Colombia. Now, not 'I am one that is too much trouble to go to a dump, but since I like to read the newspaper, I read that at this time in Colombia are moving a little' things, and are moving in the direction wrong. In other words, the relationship between guerrillas and government are on course. This usually means seizures. As already 'there are usually 3000 per year, because in China I met a Switzerland in Colombia' was seized, as the world 'largest etc. etc. etc. I do not think we sparrow'.
Of course the boys have told me that Colombians are good people, but ...

You say: fly! Ehhhhh siiiiii, and believe that costs 9 euros more 'taxes? This is about 200/300 euros to a minimum! So either find a ferry from Venezuela to Panama or I'll go down in Brazil and 'nice people there too, tie'!
And then I always fly free, and maybe the Lufthansa flight from Brazil to Mexico. In short you will see ', relaxation.

Now it's raining and no signs of stopping so long as' no busts, no surfing I found some guys that I rent a table. I was almost thinking of buying the third table of my life and this time go all the coast of South America and ride with patience, who knows what is the right time to learn! And even if I learn is always the charm of the surfer who goes to the beach with the sun rising up behind it and leaves a shadow on the wet sand, while the eyes of the people reveal an admiration for the man in tune with the energy of the ocean. But just do not believe it either.

Puerto La Cruz, 300 km from Caracas Friday 'July 4 dosmiltres
Caracas, hear all, and 'a city' very dangerous, and since the hostel I found on the internet and 'in one of the more' bad, I decided to see the city 'a few months, when things have calmed down.
From Macuto up anyway for the city 'that swallows me in the metro', nice and clean, and I seem to be in Madrid, so they start coming to my doubts about the dangerousness' of the place. Get off at Plaza Venezuela near the hostel and go, but then I get carried away and I go where I fall.
On escalators to ask a lady where you take the shuttle bus to Terminal Oriental and she helps me. Just arrived in the area tells me that a guy tried to open my backpack while we were on the escalator "It's' careful," he says. I do not think he could pull off the computer with impunity, but 'I would be sorry for him, that he had taken away his socks dirty.
However smoothly to the terminal where the Oriental waiting for the bus to Puerto La Cruz I eat a tuna grilled for 1.5 euros. The lady asks me what I want with the tuna. "What's with '?" I ask. "With rice, potatoes, bananas .... Or me!"
"With you?", "Is as a side dish." It makes you a good laugh.
All nice, talking, joking and greets you.
I get in the bus (6 Euros) and I swear, and 'a film crews with all tinted windows, curtains closed, air conditioning and ... a hole where the TV! All begin to purr happily, I try to read a little 'round the book (historical novel about Queen Elizabeth in English) and look out.
I see the palm trees, people sleeping by the roadside, cars showing their age ... I mean the classic corollary of a tropical country.
I was immediately homesick for Bali, but are not there '. Already know 'that it will take' a little 'to acclimate and find myself wondering if it will enter South America' in me as well as Asia. It 'something very similar to' falling in love. South America will call me 'fall in love and forget about Asia? Mmmmm ... we'll see. '

At one stop I see a newspaper that says "Berlusconi pico '" and take a shot, and then I see that' virtually hanged only with the declaration on the SS ... .. it seems hard to believe the power wears out.

In the evening arrival in Puerto la Cruz, I get off the bus, I look up into the sky and my natural instinct tells me Where 'the sea. I run through me there in the midst of people who do not even notice me, and I try to soak up the atmosphere, but I do not find violence. Get to the sea and the bay and 'beautiful, seems to Benidorm but much' bigger and without all those skyscrapers.
The first hotel has a good price, EUR 11.5 with a / c, cable tv, hot water, very spacious .. in fact we do not lose time, and I shove. Then I discover that near there 'is an internet cafe', so I make my home for the weekend.
I make a trip to the beach, full of romantic couples embrace that looks like a scene from "Wake up!", When the Kingdom of God will come down 'on earth. The sand welcomes a little 'too much plastic, but no one, and' perfect, and God has His inscrutable designs.
A takeaway pizza in the evening, and while I wait on him is a guy I said "desculpe", then looks at me and says "sorry".
But I did do that are written in Italian? However, I take this opportunity to say that here we are exactly 1 tourist, I.

Connection with this morning Paoletta on Radio Deejay, strong. Do you think that at Milan, I started talking with two guys in Cremona who went to Isla Margarita and one says "... but look at that case, just the other day I heard a Radio Deejay .." and I, After years of anonymity I could finally, triumphantly say "I AM".
However, apart from the fame, I hope that a little 'of people realize that there are other ways to travel outside the usual packages. And that this will help us with Tripcentre!