I left the car for 250 Bolivares for 24 hours at the long term parking and used public transport to go to Caracas and move around. First I had to take the bus from the airport to Caracas and one company offered this service almost every half an hour. After a 30 minute drive we arrived at the final station and from there I went to the metro station Bellas Artes to enter the metro system and find my way to the attractions. The first stop would be Capitolio.

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I left the metro and was straight in the historic center of Caracas. I walked to the main square which happened to be Plaza Bolivar and it seemed that this was the given name for all main squares in all Venezuela. It was Sunday morning and the park was crowded with hundreds of people queueing up to register. This was part of the program to resolve the tense situation between Colombia and Venezuela. According to estimations 150.000 Colombians are in Venezuela and did not have their legal documents from Venezuela. It was now the time for a political use of this high number and show the Colombian government and the world the good and human will of the socialist president to resolve this with this amnesty peace program.

Not only the main square had the name of The Liberator of the continent but Caracas was also the birth place, the later home and the church where Simon Bolivar actually received the honorable official name of The Liberator. All places were of historical value and in extremely good condition, both from the outside and the structure as well as from the inside and the interior design. Every city wakes up slow on a Sunday morning and so did Caracas. I had plenty of time and was first at the later home of The Liberator and I was first at his birth place. I used enough time to understand the life and went on to the historical museum of the liberation to also understand the work of The Liberator.

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Next to the main square was the main church, the justice palace and the president office, the stock exchange and the theater. I had plenty to see and walked several times around the square to also use the time to understand a bit of the background of all these Colombians waiting in line to register them. I had a conversation with three different Colombians and I learned that most of them had been in Venezuela for a long time and that only now the regulation for the second and third generation had been changed. I was hoping that all this would also benefit my personal plans and would open the border on time for me to continue with my project to Colombia.

I had a snack and entered the metro system again to explore another area, the Venezuela square and the Sabana Grande shopping street. I was impressed by the concept of the shopping street. The street was completely closed for cars and about 2 kilometers long with various areas for children to play and huge umbrellas to give shade to the pedestrians. I spent the time I needed to go back and forth and then made my way home to the airport. The difference in time still allowed me to speak to the family in Europe and in Brazil. I had air condition in my huge office, bathroom and shops. I quite liked my office but internet was too slow to really work on the site to upload. I had to leave that for another office.

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