Originally Posted by Pipecrew (Post 18278884)

Jeez talk about an old bump. I had to look at pics again to remember! Off to brazil in 10 days, will start a new thread after ;)

Originally Posted by Caligari (Post 18279175)

while it is true that caracas is dangerous, its dangerous like any town with 5 million plus people.
in reality it was bogota, colombia where i saw the violence. my friend and i were walking into downtown one day when we spotted a group of grammar school age students gawking at something in front of a gas station, pointing and giggling.

we went over and discovered two bodies lying there, their heads mostly gone having been blown off in an apparent drug turf related execution.

i never saw anything like that in venezuela although obviously it happens like it happens every day in all major cities of the U.S. and elsewhere.

btw Medellin is a great town. on the way there from bogota our bus had to be diverted because of fighting but once we got there we had a good time!

Originally Posted by Caligari (Post 18279175)

while it is true that caracas is dangerous, its dangerous like any town with 5 million plus people.
in reality it was bogota, colombia where i saw the violence. my friend and i were walking into downtown one day when we spotted a group of grammar school age students gawking at something in front of a gas station, pointing and giggling.

we went over and discovered two bodies lying there, their heads mostly gone having been blown off in an apparent drug turf related execution.

i never saw anything like that in venezuela although obviously it happens like it happens every day in all major cities of the U.S. and elsewhere.

btw Medellin is a great town. on the way there from bogota our bus had to be diverted because of fighting but once we got there we had a good time!

Originally Posted by BVF (Post 16025788)

Nice pics.....However, I'm too old to be getting roughed up and going through checkpoints and getting harrassed at the airport....I don't care how nice the people are...I've been through ALL of that and I'm tired of it.

Maybe it's because I have kids now and I want to have the highest chance of making it back home.

You can run around and smash coconuts and see friendly people in Belize without all the violence...

Originally Posted by Pipecrew (Post 18278884)

Jeez talk about an old bump. I had to look at pics again to remember! Off to brazil in 10 days, will start a new thread after ;)

Originally Posted by chronig (Post 18279193)

Medellin is awesome, but it's losing it's touch... it's slowly getting more and more foreigners/tourists coming here and slowly becoming more and more Americanized or whatever you'd like to call it. Just recently they started installing speedtrap cameras on the one little highway they have here, and they've created a new law that small local/corner stores can't sell liqour after 11PM! wtf? They're also building like crazy... condos going up all over the fucking place. Looks like that coke money is being put to use. There are literally 3 malls within a 5 minute walking distance from eachother... wtf? There was one, that was big and nice, then they made a HUGE one across the street last year, and now another medium sized one is going up inbetween the two...