Venezuela picture gallery
Finally finished sorting out all the pictures I shoot in Venezuela and on the way there and back home and uploaded them all to my Facebook. Now I got to upload them here, label them and publish them :). There is so much I could tell about Venezuela and at the same time not so much. I don’t think Caracas is a pretty city I have not seen much real nice places with nice architecture and such. We visited a zoo but I felt sad for the poor animals who sat all by them self in a too small cage for my opinion. The peacocks they had there where nice and seem to have all the space in the world. I shoot some pictures of plants n flowers we keep indoors here as houseplants. The many malls so crowded with people and the big difference between poor and rich. The Barrios with their always colorful paint on the houses was a strong contrast with the grey city that’s covered in dust. Antonio’s family was real nice and they tried to serve food what even I like. The beach was nice but small because the other beach was not very safe to go to so we where told. It’s too bad I don’t speak spanish and had no clue half the time what was being said. That also limited my experience to understand what was happening and what was being said. We went to a movie and although it was in Spanish it was easy to follow. Its too bad that I could not just go out on my own n go see places because that is just too dangerous there. The barrios looked so interesting to me and made me think i would find and see much more culture there but again too dangerous to go there. I don’t know if we will go back again to Venezuela, the tickets are very expensive and although Antonio’s parents paid for them I cant expect that to happen everytime. I am goign to cut this post short cause I got to go out n get some groceries n things taken care off. Maybe tonight I will start uploading the pictures. I’ll edit this post n post the links when I did :).
I will post updates with little descriptions. If it gets too long I will make a separated post.
Edit: Uploaded 2 folders with pictures so far.
23-12-2012 The pictures we took on the way there and the pictures I took at the first day at. The house of Antonio’s Parents, where we where staying. In between flights on the way there I could not take any pictures because we literally had to run allover the airport to take the next plane. Someone was waiting at the gate when we came out of the plane gathering everyone who had to go on the flight to Caracas. Our plane from Amsterdam to Lisbon had delay so we landed late while we originally would have had already only 1 hour to switch flights. Well now we did not had anytime at all. They delayed the flight to Caracas for us and the others who needed to switch.So out of breath and sweating allover we sat down on our seats in the plane to Caracas. The plane was very luxury with a touch screen monitor. We could choose out of many movies and games and music channels. We had no window view chairs unfortunately but that’s because there where 4 seats in the middle and on both sides another two across the walking path. Sleeping was impossible for me but Anarosa did got a little sleep. She made a little friend in the plane.
24-12-2012 The day we arrived it was already dark and I did not took any pictures till we where home. My dates on the pictures are a little bit off because of the time zone differences so some pictures are actually from the next morning though I kept them on this date because that’s the date of our own time zone. You can see a typical Venezuelan food Hallacas. It was not bad but its too unusual to me to really like it a lot. I was told it take 5 days for everything to get to taste and stay packed in. Then after that and when its being bought/sold you prepare it by simply boiling in water for 5 minutes.
25-12-2012. Today we opened the Christmas gifts that where under the tree. Due to the fact that I got sick in the last week and had to go to the hospital on the last day before we left, there was no time for us to do more gift shopping for Antonio’s family. We had no time to buy anything on the airport in Portugal. We did buy somethings at Schiphol but needed two more things. We had bought parfume for Antonio’s mom that I had ordered ahead of time. For Antonio’s older bro we had an aftershave that we boguht at Schiphol, For Antonio’s dad although that was not directly meant as Christmas gift because it would have to be refrigerated, we bought a little dutch windmill in Delfts blue with a little Edammer cheese. So we did not had anything really for Antonio’s youngest brother and the chocolate we took with us from Holland I had without thinking already given to Antonio’s mom lol. So we could not wrap that up anymore either. Well we just going to have to make up another time for that. I am sure we will travel there again some day or that they will come to us. Since everything was closed most of the day, we just went to the local bakery and the parc where Anarosa had a load of fun.
26-12-2012 Today we went to the mall. I had a new haircut and Anarosa got a balloon. Thats where I saw also an awesome dress but didnt buy it because I thought it was a little expensive. The balloon that Anarosa got we did not take it with us back to Holland because we thought it would break for sure in the plane. At lunchtime we went to a restaurant where we had a fantastic meal. its pretty close to the house where Antonio’s family lives. We had a mixed grill and ordered Sangria. It was delicious and Anarosa loved the decorations in the restaurant. She even started to kiss the poles that was decorated with cow skins LOL.
27-12-2012 It was just a lazy day where we stayed at home and played arround the house, I read a book we played games on the wii, talked some and Anarosa played with the ball. We also went to the movies called Wrecked Ralph. It was a good movie and although it was in spanish I could follow the story easely. Anarosa liked the movie too she had a great time.
Here is the folder where you can find all the pictures.
