Mérida and Los Nevados

No posts for a long time because I am having a nice time and when you have a nice time you don't give a shit about going on a computer.

Alright, so I took a 24 hour bus from Ciudad Bolívar to Mérida, an Andean Venezuelan city with copsmopolitan (well, as far as Venezuela goes) atmosphere. Set in a valley at about 1800 meters elavation, Mérida has a much differnet feel than the other Venezuelan cities I've encountered. I arrived with the two Englishboys, Jesse and Joel, hereinafter refered to as Dingus and Dingus. We met their buddy, a Torontonian named Glan, hereinafter refered to as Dingus, in Mérida and the scene was set.

We took the teleférico up to the top and then back down to the second-to-last station. The top station is at 4800m. You start from about 1600m altitude, so this is the tallest and longest cable-car in the world. We hiked about four hours to an isolated little town of about a hundred people called los Nevados. After some rum and tuna in the evening, the next morning mules were ordered and it was on their backs that we made it back to the cable-cars to come down.

Not much time, so I'll leave it there.