The weather in Caracas hasn´t been so great. It rains every couple days and when it rains it comes down so hard that people do everything they can to get out of it. I went out guide book shopping and forgot my rain jacket. I was constantly worried and looked at the sky the entire time I was outside. Fortunately the heavens decided to spare me that day.
Other days, the weather has been just great. This is a statue in the roundabout near Aunt Carmen´s house.
Jose Carlos, who is the husband of my cousin, Karin, invited me to come with him up the teleferico, or cable car, up a local mountain in Caracas. The mountain wasn´t so high that I suggested that we hike up. Jose Carlos said that he had done it in his early years, and his son, David, 12, was very active, so they would come with me. I figured it would be a bad idea and that they would have a hard time going up, but they were keen, so we headed off. It didn´t take long for us to find that the trail was very overgrown, and that there was no chance of us continuing on the trail.
Thus, we turned around and took the cable car up, which turned out to be the better option anyway, because it was way longer than they implied, and it was raining when we got up to the top.
There wasn´t much of a view, but that didn´t stop us from having a good time. We walked around and saw the ice rink, the pool hall, the many restaurants, the hotel, and the street performers. Keep in mind that this is on top of a mountain.
We also took a jeep to a small town (still on the mountain top) and enjoyed lunch out of the rain and checked out the many tourist shops.
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