Down the roads of Venezuela: Rush to Puerto Ayacucho
Magic world of Amazonia - Tiwy.com (July 2005)
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Hotel «Amazonas» is one of the best in Puerto Ayacucho. Maximum of tropic comfort!
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The state Amazonas depicted in artistic manner of local artists of «naiffe» school.
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Social and political life in Puerto Ayacucho boils over. Youth is for Chavez: he does not spare petrodollars for free education, health service and reasonable accommodation.
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The state Amazonas is often referred to as a «magic land». Ads do not lie!
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From the airport «Cacique Aramare» you can get to the remotest villages of Venezuelan Puerto Ayacucho.
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This artist offers his canvases to foreign tourists for twenty years.
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One of the main attractions and symbols of Puerto Ayacucho - «House on a rock» (La Casa de la piedra).
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Cosy motel «Miramar». The rooms better to be booked in advance.
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The monument to General Sucre – favourite fellow-fighter of Liberador Simon Bolivar. Local sculptor seems to have a bad eye. Either the sculpture is too small or something is wrong with the pedestal...
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On the way to petroglyphs of ancient inhabitants of Amazonia.
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Modern Indian settlements.
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Tourist camp «Orinoquia» is geting ready to «summer season». Amateur fishermen from all over the world group together here
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Roadside subjects:
Entrance to the cemetery named after Hitchcock.
In search of illusions of Puerto Ayacucho country.
World of Indian huts.
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Lure to tourists: «Tobogan de la Selva» - nature-made attraction in 25 km from Puerto Ayacucho.
River ports Samariapo and Venado pursue their own life. On the opposite bank of Orinoco – Columbia!
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At the outskirts of Puerto Ayacucho.
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Commercial river fleet of Venezuela. |
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Buy lemons, they are sweet!
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The monument to an Indian hunter in Puerto Ayacucho.
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Puerto Ayacucho «Broadway» in sunny and rainy days.
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President Chavez – is a people's leader.
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