World Trip

Area : 916445 sq km
Capital : Caracas
Famous for : Oil, Beauty Queens, and Simon Bolivar
Language : Spanish
Money Conversion : US $1 = 1600 Bolivares
Population : 25 million in 2003
Visa not required
Time change : 3 Hours time difference ( 7:59pm Denver, 11:27 Venezuela)

After arriving in Venezuela I settle in at Posada Los Bucares Hotel and eat breakfast at La Astila for 5-9 dollars. The from there I am taking a taxi for 3 dollars to Las Gonzallaz for an hour long jeep ride and then paragliding for 400-500 dollars, I bought this as a three hour tour. Then I went to La Sevillana to eat some cultural food and then went wild life watching at Wild Life Safari at Los Lamanos, viewing the Plain savanna south of the Andes. After a very very long day I have decided to go back to my hotel Posada Los Bucares and sleep.
The next day I take a air plane over to the capital, Caracas and visit Plaza Boliviar, which is the main touristic place to go. I look around to shop and see local vendoes and look at the center monument to Bolibiar - The Equestriam Statue ( founded on the Archipelago De Los Roquas). What is so spectacular about this monument is that it supports president chavez.
Then i go to a local restuarant Comida Criolla in the center of Plaza Boliviar, eating rice and beans.
Then because most of all Caracas is filled with museums and memories of historical figures I have decided that I want to go to the Museum of Contemporary art.
Then after a long day of walking I take a taxi to my hotel, Hilton Caracas for 135 dollars a night.
The next day I start my exciting visit in Caracas with a walking tour to remember Hero Simon Boliviar (3 Hour walk) Through Caracas starting at Palacio De Las Academias (National University) to Iglesia San Francisco (Where Boliviar was Declared El Libertador) . Move to Casa Natal De Boliviar a Museum, Visit yet another Museum along the way (Museo Bolivariano, Charged to Independence Movements of the Boliverian Accoutrements) Move along to Plaza El Benezolano. From there go to Concejo Munciple (Where Venezuela’s Independence was declared) then move on to Cathedral where Boliviar was Baptisted. After that go to Muzeo Sacro De Caracas (get coffee). Lastly, we will visit Panteon Naciono (where El Liberadors Yomb Lies.)
Along the way our tour group stops and has lunch at Dinner at The Classic Dinning Hall (Restaurant La Atarraya, $3.)
I decide I want to experience some cultural music and go to Jauan Sedastian Bar, which I didn't really research much into but was a local place to listen to Jazz bands. It wasn't much different than some jazz in the united states but it was unique because of the setting.

After this I go back to my hotel and go to sleep and get ready for my plane ride home.

Main Argentina Info:
-Republic
-Has 23 federations
-Second largest country in South America
- Area 2,766,890 km2
- Argentina is located between the Andes mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south. Argentina borders Paraguay and Bolivia to the north, Brazil and Uruguay to the northeast, and Chile to the west and south.
- Capital Buenos Aires
- Official language- Spanish
- population 40,482,000

I have just arrived at Alvear Argentina at Rosario airport. It is very hot and muggy here. I am staying at Hotel Majestic. Since it is the main attraction in Argentina is the monument dedicated to the Argentine flag. General Manuel Belgrano is burried in the crypt of the monument. At the top of it you have a great view of the city and Parnana too which i enjoyed because then I could see exactly where I was in the city.
After settling in I went to the Astronomical Observatory, Planetary, Science Experimental museum. It holds up too 250 people in the observatory.
Then I am going to Dos Rueda Una Huella which is a Kayak excursion of the delta, and a bicycle tour of the city with the staff of Bike Rosario. There were so many people at one point I could not get threw and almost lost the bicycle group.

Sri Lanka main Info:
-Democratic Socialist Republic
- Island country off of 19.3 miles from India
- Apart of South Asia

Sigiriya Rock Fortress
My first visit in Sri Lanka was the Sigiriya Rock Fortress. It is located in the central Matale District of Sri Lanka. This castle/ancient rock fortress has many gardens, reservoirs and other structures. It also has water gardens and little homes built from the rocks at the base of it. In these houses there are ancient paintings which is what makes this a tourist attraction. This is known to have been built around AD 477-495). This was one interesting place to envision what Sri Lanka was like in the past. It was a good place to visit first and understand some of Sri Lanka's culture. After roaming around taking a couple of pictures I decided to go get some food. I wanted something authentic so I went to. The Almahara Sea food restaurant. This is such an amazing place, it was in the shape of a circle basically and in the center was a huge aquarium. It essentially made me sad that I was eating seafood once my food had arrived.

After I had finished my food I decided to go walk and view the Wasgamuwa National Park. I took a taxi there and then walked by foot to enjoy some of the outdoors. This park is filled with wildlife! It was once a natural reserve but then turned into a national park in 1984.
Total park area: The total park area is 39,322 ha. Ha, I am not sure what kind of measuring system that is. I love elephants and this is one of the most populated areas of Sri Lanka for elephants. While walking around I saw many birds flying over my head and I found out that there are over a 100 different species of birds in the area, which really amazed me. Besides that there are, leopard, sloth bear, sambhur, spotted and barking deer, wild board, wild buffalo, Purple face leaf monkey, Torque Macaque, Loris and the Drongo bird. After seeing these amazing creatures in there natural habitat, I decided I wanted to see the underwater habitat of Sri Lanka.

I wanted to go scuba diving! The best place some of locals refeared me to was Negombo because of some of the ship wrecks that occured there. From Negombo beach I went to the dive site called Hanova. This was dive was kinda pricey but totally worth it! I love scuba diving!
There are known to be over 138 species of coral in Sri Lanka's waters.

After this long day I have decided to go stay at the hotel, Ceylon Continental Hotel Colombo. What I liked about this hotel was that it was really close to the beach and it was only 35km from the Colombo Airport.

Bahamas Info:
English and Independent
Capital: Nassau
Has 2,387 rocks, 661 cays, and 21 Islands
Locations: Atlantic Ocean Southeast of the United States, Northeast of Cuba
Size : 14,000km2
Population: 330,000
Districts : 31

It is extremely hot and humid in the Bahamas. I have arrived at Nassau Airport on the Island New Providence. I am renting a small car, a toyota to drive around from Paradise Island to New Providence. I am staying at the Atlantis Hotel/Royal Towers. My night stay here will cost around $ 25,000. YES PRICEY. I arrived at my hotel and settled in and went for a swim in the pools. Then I decided to swim with some dolphoins at Dolphin Cay Atlantis. It was shallow swim, it involved hugging, kissing and petting but no swimming. The swimming came with the deep swim which I did not go on. I payed 140 dollars to do this. After this I went to go eat at my hotel and go to sleep for the rest of night.

The next day I woke up and heard about a glass bottom boat tour. It was 55 dollars and it included,a 4 hour cruise, snorkling, stopping off at beaches, unlimited cocktails and snacks. Then after that I decided to go on another tour called the water sports cruise. I got to go parasailing, ride on a bananas boat, stop off and explore some more beaches and have some more snacks. I was stuffed. Not a good combination for a boat ride.

Then it started to get around sunset and I decided I would go horseback riding on the beach with the company Beach Horse riding. This was worth $110 a person.
Then I headed back to Atlantis to stay the night and rest up for a long day of going to look at museums and statues.

When I woke up I drove my little toyota over to the The Pompey Museum of Slavery & Emancipation on Nassau. This house now a museum used to be a slave auction house. It was very interesting. Next I went to Bay Street located right next the last museum I went to and this is the main street in Nassau. It has many interesting shops and stores which I explored. Next I went to Parliment Square. There was a statue of Queen Victoria situated in the center, this square is where most of Nassau's main government buildings can be found. I went back to my hotel to eat a small dinner on the beach and then went to sleep.

The next day I went to Conception Island. This island was really interesting because the endangered green turtle lays its eggs and I was able to some turtles roaming around. I also went scuba diving for my first time. I had a hard time learning how to breath under water but I got the hang of it. It was a really unique spot to go scuba diving. There were a lot of coral reefs.

I was extremely exhausted from scuba diving, it really take the energy out of you. I went back to my hotel and sleep for the night and got ready for my trip to Sri Lanka!

Paradise Island Info:
Main Gambling Island
Worth 2 billion dollars

New Providence Island:
Area: 207km2
Two thirds of the people living in the bahamas live on New Providence

I have arrived in Clarence town which is located on Long Island, which seems very friendly. I am stoked to get my tan on!

Long Island info:
Not to big, but an interesting place to look at sights
Population: 350 people

I have arrived in poland after a long long long long flight from Singapore. I cannot tell you how long it was, I slept threw the whole flight. When I got in Warsaw, I went straight to my hotel, Hyatt Regency Warshaw, which my room for one night was $160 a tad pricey but a very very high class stay.

In the morning, I have planned to go to the Bieszczady moutains in the lower south corner of poland near Slvakia and Ukraine. I take a tour bus over to Lake Solina to do some water sports, such as water skiing.
What make the Bieszczady mountains so incredible amount of species of plants and animals. There are over 900 species of vascular plants. In those 900, 42 of them are protected in Bieszczadzki National park. This park is around the western side of the Bieszczady mountains. There are about 200 species of animals. There are Eurpoean bison, the brown bear, wild boar, lynx, wolf, and wildcats. Along with a variety of birds- the Ural owl, golden eagle, alpine hedge=sparrow and pipit. These mountains are 1560 km2 long. After water skiing I wanted to go for a hike and eat a sandwich i packed for lunch. after about a 3 hour hike I have arrived back at Lake Solina and took the tour bus back to Warsaw and walked back to my hotel.

It is now late and there is a show at the Amphitheater at Lazienki Park in Warsaw. It is located right near a pong and is perfect for this summer night. This amphitheater was built in 1790-1793 by Jam Chrystian Kamesetzer. What I personally liked was that there were statues of 16 famous poets in locate din the attic of the theater.
When the show ended I went back to my hotel and slept for the night.

The next day I have decided to walk around Warsaw and get a taxi to Krakow and go sight seeing. I pass by the Barbakan. This structure was used when the Barbakan were in battle. They take pride in this structure seeing they never got caught. This structure's wall is three three meters thick. This is a huge piece of architecture and was really interesting to see. It was built in 1300.
While walking around I pass by the Banking and Financial Center. This massive building was the headquarters of the Polish Communist party and Polish Peoples' Republic. It is now Warsaw's Stock Exchange, being the largest stock exchange in Europe. This building is someone modern and was built in 1948-51. I also pass by the Mermaid Monument in Old Town Square and snap picture.
I am feeling hungry so I went to go eat at Bagatela. It is known for its club style atmosphere and its Meditteranean/ Polish food, which I suppose was good, but I am not a big fan of Polish food.

I then walk back to my hotel and stay the night and in the morning I am taking a flight to the Bahamas.

Poland Info:
Warsaw- Largest and capital city
- Republic
- "Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north."- wiki
- total area- 312,679 square kilometres
- 9th largest country in europe
- Official Language- Polish
- Total Population 38,130,302 (2009 estimate)
- Great weather when I was there! 69 degrees!