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 Silhouettes of Santa Fe
Santa Fe is a very small town on
the Caribbean coast, essentially just a beach lined with hotels and
houses. We spent a few days there, enjoying the luxurious feeling that
comes from beginning and ending a day in the same place. The opportunities
for speaking with Venezuelans were limited since it was largely a gringo
tourist town, but we did get to know the owner of our hotel and some local
children that were hanging out on the beach.
| On Christmas Eve we ate a
delicious whitefish dinner with a bunch of other gringos and had
Spanish class in the sand. A day later we went out in a boat with a
local guide, ostensibly for snorkeling. By far the highlight of the
trip, though, was when we found ourselves amidst a pod of dolphins.
There were what appeared to be a hundred dolphins all swimming and
playing around the boat. We all immediately had the same thought:
"gee, what if I were to just 'accidentally' fall out of the boat..."
but our guide assured us as soon as anything broke the surface of
the water they'd swim away. |
Cathy finds a solution to her
seeing-while-snorkelling problem |
Santa Fe from the boat
We enjoyed our rest in Santa Fe perhaps a
little too much. It took us a couple days to get up the gumption to make
plans and leave. Once we did, we decided to put in a long haul and go all
the way across the country to Mérida in the Andes, then work our way back
towards Caracas to conclude the trip.
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