Very Important
I must admit that I have really enjoyed Venezuela though I did not do it by motorbike and instead have left the bike in Colombia.
One thing that is very important about Venezuela is try and take enough american dollars into Venezuela for your whole trip. If you withdraw money from an ATM you will be charged the offical rate of 1US=2.15 which will make travelling in Venezuela very very expensive (except for petrol). For example (sad to say my irish friend dragged me into McDs) a big mac meal is 40B which would then be almost 20US at the offical rate or 7US at the unoffical rate as were we were getting about 5.6B to the US$1.
It is really easy to change money which I did at restuarants, hostels and once a book shop.
But Merida is lovely and so is Angel Falls. I have lots of pictures on my blog if you look www.alaska2argentina.com/blog
Cheers,
Annette
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