Advantages: Relaxing, beautiful Disadvantages: Not much to do except relax!
Unlike many places in the world now, the most spectacular part of a trip to the small Venezuelan village of Puerto Colombia is still the journey to reach it. This collection of posadas and the adjoining colonial village of Choroni are situated a mere 2 hour drive from Maracay on the west Caribbean coast of Venezuela yet they seem like they are a truly rural slice of life. The main reason for this is that the journey to the village involves a hair raising ride crossing over a mountain and through the Henri Pittier National Park. Either by bus or by shared taxi, you hurtle through hairpin bends, usually arbitrarily using either side of the road and swinging widely back to the proper side when a vehicle appears coming the other way, up around 2000metres into the clouds and then back down to sea level.
Part of the attraction of Venezuela ...
Advantages: diverse, stunning, peaceful, cheap, friendly, coffee, climate Disadvantages: language barriers, long bus journeys
My name is Jonathan, I am a 21 year old student at Warwick, I went to Colombia in the summer of 2006, and wanted to share a little bit of it...
First of all, it was of little surprise to me that Colombia has had just five reviews on the country in general. This can probably be accounted by the fact that when you take one look at the foreign office website, all but a handful of Colombian provinces are blacked out as "no go zones." Whether feeling adventurous or just plain stupid as some would claim, I chose to kindly ignore this advice, and venture out to what has now become one of my favourite countries in the world, and despite my age, I have been to over 30 countries across all the continents.
My journey in Colombia began on the caribbean coast and ended on the border to Ecuador, where my travels continued down the West coast to ...
goldentouch77 19.09.2008
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of General: Colombia
Advantages: cheap, good location, friendly staff Disadvantages: minimal kitchen facilities, no big socialising area
Upon a recent visit to Prague, seven friends and I stayed in the Ace hostel. I believe we chose this particular establishment based primarily on price and location.
I've stayed in several hostels in the last year or so, ranging from inner-city youth hostels to mountain huts, and I must say that Ace hostel is nothing whatsoever like anything I've stayed in before.
I am used to hostels operating similar to an actual hotel, with a reception opening right off the main street, and being in quite a big building with lots of rooms, a bar, a left luggage room etc.
Ace hostel was different to this.
The clue to Ace's location was a sign sticking out of the building, as is usual, but then you had to select 'Ace' from a series of doorbells/buzzers to get the outer gate open. Once through this outer gate, you proceed along a tunnel, and up some ...
