Ciudad Bolivar is the place where most people head to Angel Falls from, which was the purpose of my visit.\u00a0 Angel Falls is nigh on impossible to visit independently so I booked a tour from the hostel where I was staying.\u00a0 I headed into town and was pleasantly surprised with the hilly streets of colourfully painted houses leaning on steep roads to the river.\u00a0 The town was a place of contradictions though as, along with the quaint houses, lovely plazas and architecture, is a feeling of an unemployed and unsettled population.\u00a0 The area used to have a large number of mines but these were apparently closed by the government as they were bad environmentally.\u00a0 The Chavez government offered all the miners a decent payout for the closures and their redundancies but no money ever transpired.\u00a0 As a result there are a large number of seriously disgruntled men around who have now apparently resorted to crime, robbery and the like, in order to try to support themselves.<\/p>\n
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Despite the apparent unrest, the town was welcoming enough and the street market was a buzzing and lively place.\u00a0 I wandered around, bought a long pair of trousers to fend off the mozzies and replace my ones which I ripped whilst dismounting and got some food.<\/p>\n
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In the evening at the Posada I met a German couple, Christina and Oliver, along with a French girl, Juliette, who were all apparently on my group for the Falls trip the following day.\u00a0 We had a few beers and chatted and I was pleased that they seemed to be a really good bunch of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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