Monday, May 03, 2004
From Caracas, With Images
It's been a short, but pleasant stay. Caracas looks nicer than I'd pictured, sandwiched between two thin mountain ridges the sides of which are dotted with squatter homes. It's urban and congested but also green and tropical. "Venezuela the country and people" is a colorful and chaotic siamese twin brother of "Venezuela the oil company that pays the bills". People seem extremely nice. Local cuisine, alas, is their take on meat and potatoes (meat and plantains?).
My meetings went well, in an hour I'll head out to the airport and hop a plane to Bogota, 630 miles to the southwest and 90 minutes by air. Caracas, btw, is 2120 miles south of New York, about 80% the distance to my family in Phoenix.
Venezuelan Congress, courtyard
Caracas Metropolitan Cathedral
Caracas - Eastern Park
Palace of the Academies (Venezuela's First University)
Where Caracas' poorer residents live...
Caracas has miles of beach...
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