Things to do in Merida - Eat strange flavoured ice cream

Merida has an ice cream parlour that boasts the greatest number of different flavours of ice cream in the world. I tried spaghetti n cheese and the salmon ice cream before some strawberry to take the strange taste away.

On the wall there’s a list of all the different flavours that they have offered over the years, unfortunately the world cup 98 flavour wasn’t available, wonder what that tasted of?

The likeness to the flavours is quite amazing, give it a go!

We did enjoyed our visit to Jericoacara in Brasil, however it was maybe a bit to trendy for our liking and the conditions weren’t very good for beach action (the wind was too strong) but we still found plenty to do with our selves.

1. Climb up and then jump down the sand dunes

As the sunsets join the masses and climb to the top of the main sand dune that sits to the left of the main beach. It makes for a dramatic scene as shadows lengthen and the wind sweeps across the rippling sand.

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Reaching an altitude of 4765 m. Merida’s cable car is the highest in the world.

The cable car consists of four sections for a total length of 12.5 km. The altitude at the top is higher than any point in Europe and USA excluding Alaska.

The first section starts at Barinitas station (1577m) the corner of the square with the fountain, it ends up at La Montaña station (2577 m.), go for a walk around and gaze upon the beauty of Merida sat far down below. Hopefully you wont be feeling too light headed at this point.

The next two stages reach La Aguada station (3452 m.) and Loma Redonda station (4045 m.), if your unlucky it may leave you feeling altitude sick, but fingers crossed you’ll be alright and be able to warm yourself with a tasty cup of chocolate.

Have a real good rest at this point, walk very slowly, don’t run around and get used to the altitude as much as you can before taking the final assent.

The final stage takes you to Pico Espejo (Mirror Peak - 4765 m.) where you can walk outside amongst the snow. Cross your fingers again and hope you have a clear day and are able to see all around, we didn’t’ but enjoyed watching the Venezuelans (many of them would never have seen snow before) play in the snow as we slowly walked around.