First and Foremost. Venezuela is a beautiful country with quite possibly the most beautiful women on earth. You would see 12's out of 10's working on the side of the road selling cellphone minutes or working in markets etc. These girls are making the equivalent of 300 USD/month
However, it's quite possibly the most dangerous country ever. Imagine driving 3 miles away from your house and having to go through 3-4 military checkpoints within those 3 miles, the kind of checkpoints where guys with shotguns eye you down just wanting to make an example of you. Now multiply that by 5 times a day x everyday if you lived there. I couldn't get many pictures of the checkpoints, because they go crazy if you take their picture (I tried later and learned my lesson)
Airports: Fucking Chaos, I thought the US state department was exaggerating that Caracas was the most dangerous airport in the world, they weren't. Fake police officers, Cab drivers that will rob you and just general bad dudes, hang out at the airport.
I had to pay a "gringo" tax a few times just to get my bags safely out of that airport.
Driving
Imagine a place where you dont have any rules or stoplights that people obey for that matter. Imagine driving 150 km/hour whenever the fuck you want, imagine driving drunk and imagine being able to pass the police officers because if they pull you over, it costs you the equivalent to 10 USD to send them on their way. Sounds like fun right? No, it's fucking terrifying, for every 5 miles of road, you see 10-15 of these little grave sites where people have died in their car.
Money
For Every 1 USD you can buy about 6 bolivares. So multiply your money by 6, your pretty much a rockstar in this country for nothing.
Here are some Random Pics, I have tons of good ones, but I just picked like 20 random ones to post with a few comments here and there about each.
This is a taxi. Yes it really is, and it's a busy taxi. I have seen bigger pieces of shit driving around the road than this. Check the wild dogs hiding under this one.
This beach is called Sombrero, it's fucking sick, I ran around smashing cocunuts and snorkeling here all day.
I had really no idea beaches like this existed in Venezuela, so I was pleasantly surprised.
Me smashing and eating cocunuts.
Me riding one decrypt looking horse. I thought it would be easy or something, I was wrong. I remembered Christopher reeve and decided to get off while I still could.
I milked a cow! holla!, and it's not easy like I figured it would be.
I bought a shotgun because I couldn't believe how easy it was. Granted I had to give it away a few days later. I don't think Delta/US customs would be cool with me transporting that
I worked on a sugar kane farm for a little bit ;)
I caught a live chicken.
Ok I lied, this kid caught it for me and I just held it. They are fast as hell.
This guy saw me taking a picture of him from the backseat of a car (look at this face), he blew a whistle and stopped the car. I immediately pulled the memory card out of my camera and threw it on the floor. He demanded me give him the Camera. I resisted a little and asked why (bad idea) at this point buddy on the left with the machine gun came over to see what the commotion was about. I got pulled out of the car, roughed up a decent amount and they smashed my 300 dollar camera into about 16,000 pieces. But You know what? It's better than seeing my ass on "Pipecrew, Locked up abroad Venezuela" That show on national geographic.
Get used to seeing wild dogs everywhere in Venezuela!
Beautiful Atving out there, but look at the end of that road, No barriers. That basically means, you make a stupid mistake and you are dropping down the side of a mountain.
Imagine having to drive up a mountain in a car for 3 hours, then getting on an ATV and riding another 3 hours through trails, rivers, dangerous paths and finding sporadic small villages. i bought this kid and all his friends about a weeks supply worth of candy at their tiny general store (total cost, about 11 USD) and they were thrilled
My new buddies
I swear on my life, We are literally 6 hours up in the mountains, 100's of miles from civilization and these 2 guys approach me and start talking in fast spanish (i can communicate in slow spanish heh) and guess what they are? Jehovah's witnesses. These guys are EVERYWHERE! even the most peaceful beautiful places on earth.
This kid was hilarious, he was part of a mariachi band and he just kept pretending he was drunk in his mariachi outfit.
These were just a random sampling of pics, I have a lot more pics, I just put these ones up. All in All, I will definitely return to Venezuela, the people are incredibly nice and there is so much to do. Don't judge it by my pictures, it's not all farm country and crazy people ;)
However, it's quite possibly the most dangerous country ever. Imagine driving 3 miles away from your house and having to go through 3-4 military checkpoints within those 3 miles, the kind of checkpoints where guys with shotguns eye you down just wanting to make an example of you. Now multiply that by 5 times a day x everyday if you lived there. I couldn't get many pictures of the checkpoints, because they go crazy if you take their picture (I tried later and learned my lesson)
Airports: Fucking Chaos, I thought the US state department was exaggerating that Caracas was the most dangerous airport in the world, they weren't. Fake police officers, Cab drivers that will rob you and just general bad dudes, hang out at the airport.
I had to pay a "gringo" tax a few times just to get my bags safely out of that airport.
Driving
Imagine a place where you dont have any rules or stoplights that people obey for that matter. Imagine driving 150 km/hour whenever the fuck you want, imagine driving drunk and imagine being able to pass the police officers because if they pull you over, it costs you the equivalent to 10 USD to send them on their way. Sounds like fun right? No, it's fucking terrifying, for every 5 miles of road, you see 10-15 of these little grave sites where people have died in their car.
Money
For Every 1 USD you can buy about 6 bolivares. So multiply your money by 6, your pretty much a rockstar in this country for nothing.
Here are some Random Pics, I have tons of good ones, but I just picked like 20 random ones to post with a few comments here and there about each.
This is a taxi. Yes it really is, and it's a busy taxi. I have seen bigger pieces of shit driving around the road than this. Check the wild dogs hiding under this one.
This beach is called Sombrero, it's fucking sick, I ran around smashing cocunuts and snorkeling here all day.
I had really no idea beaches like this existed in Venezuela, so I was pleasantly surprised.
Me smashing and eating cocunuts.
Me riding one decrypt looking horse. I thought it would be easy or something, I was wrong. I remembered Christopher reeve and decided to get off while I still could.
I milked a cow! holla!, and it's not easy like I figured it would be.
I bought a shotgun because I couldn't believe how easy it was. Granted I had to give it away a few days later. I don't think Delta/US customs would be cool with me transporting that
I worked on a sugar kane farm for a little bit ;)
I caught a live chicken.
Ok I lied, this kid caught it for me and I just held it. They are fast as hell.
This guy saw me taking a picture of him from the backseat of a car (look at this face), he blew a whistle and stopped the car. I immediately pulled the memory card out of my camera and threw it on the floor. He demanded me give him the Camera. I resisted a little and asked why (bad idea) at this point buddy on the left with the machine gun came over to see what the commotion was about. I got pulled out of the car, roughed up a decent amount and they smashed my 300 dollar camera into about 16,000 pieces. But You know what? It's better than seeing my ass on "Pipecrew, Locked up abroad Venezuela" That show on national geographic.
Get used to seeing wild dogs everywhere in Venezuela!
Beautiful Atving out there, but look at the end of that road, No barriers. That basically means, you make a stupid mistake and you are dropping down the side of a mountain.
Imagine having to drive up a mountain in a car for 3 hours, then getting on an ATV and riding another 3 hours through trails, rivers, dangerous paths and finding sporadic small villages. i bought this kid and all his friends about a weeks supply worth of candy at their tiny general store (total cost, about 11 USD) and they were thrilled
My new buddies
I swear on my life, We are literally 6 hours up in the mountains, 100's of miles from civilization and these 2 guys approach me and start talking in fast spanish (i can communicate in slow spanish heh) and guess what they are? Jehovah's witnesses. These guys are EVERYWHERE! even the most peaceful beautiful places on earth.
This kid was hilarious, he was part of a mariachi band and he just kept pretending he was drunk in his mariachi outfit.
These were just a random sampling of pics, I have a lot more pics, I just put these ones up. All in All, I will definitely return to Venezuela, the people are incredibly nice and there is so much to do. Don't judge it by my pictures, it's not all farm country and crazy people ;)
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