Hello!

(michal) Happy Easter from Caracas! We are again here in this crazy city and soon will be leaving back home, Brussels. It passed so quick the whole trip! But on the other hand we miss Europe and you guys, well I even started missing Brussels a bit (I know that I will regret my words after spending a few days in this rainiest capital of Europe! :))

Caracas - the city of famous Simon Bolivar, well, when we were here last time we have not seen much unfortunately, here is one of the main streets: View image and here another picture of streets of Sabana Grande, a district where we stayed and tried some of the Venezuelas best delicacies: arepas and cachapas View image

After Caracas we moved towards West to find ourselves for three days in a small colonial city of Coro where we spent three days and although there was nothing much to see, the weather was fine and we walked a lot and spent lots of time juist being lazy, sitting on the bench :) View image

In Coro we also witnessed some of the Venezuelan Easter celebrations, and huge processions followed by the crowds of believers View image

I should also mention that for the half of the trip there was an instrument that was accompaning us! It is 10 string Peruvian Charango! I am trying not to play too much on it (some of the participants of our trip do not appreciate my begginers attempts to master this exotic instrument) but still, I trully fell in love with its unique sound! View image Nota bene, not only Peru has its own original instrument! Venezuela has it too! It is called Cuatro, it somewhere in the middle between a classic guitar and charango when it comes to size and has only 4 strings! View image

Right from Coro we rushed for our Easter holidays to Puerto Colombia! But.. we were not the only one rushing, it seems that the entire Venezuela was there ! Look at one of this beaches..! View image

This was only a motivation for us to take one of the colorful local motorboats View image
and try to get as far as possible from the crowds, like Cepe beach for example, that was not accessible by land! View image

Next day we discovered that actually we are pretty sun-burnt and it seemed as a good thing to do some walking instead! That is how we discovered the village of Choroni, how strange and beautiful at the same time! No people was there! View image

THe crowds seemed to disappear after two days, everybody probably rushed home for Easter Sunday, by the way, another strange thing - all of the churches were closed on Easter here ! Quite strange as for Catholic country, anyway, with less people around, we could finally enjoy the atmosphere of Peurto Colombia ! View image

Last but not least, I am again tempted to write about food! Well, this time about some venezuelan sweets, cos I havent seen anything this big in my entire life - each of the sweets on the following picture weights at least a kilo! They are made in 99% of sugar cane and fruit juices! They were much to big to carry them home... View image

This is it! We will soon be going home! It was a long trip but we cannot complain for the lack of stunning sights that we have seen and beautiful sights that we have experienced!

We would like to thank all of you, who were together with us on this trip, for your support, patience, and for your all email and comments on our blog! You cant even imagine how much courage their gave us!

Once more thanks so much and see you soon in real :)

Silvena and Michal