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Venezuelan Indian: Venezuela Guide on Instagram - FITVen2013
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Friday, November 1, 2013. Venezuela Guide on Instagram - FITVen2013. In October 2013 I was invited to travel around Venezuela on a Press Trip organized by the Tourism Ministry (MinTur) in the run up to the FITVen2013 International Tourism Fair. As I lost my laptop and camera en route to Venezuela I was forced to improvise. Armed only with an HTC One S mobile phone with an 8 megapixel camera, I decided to document my trip on Instagram. I am pleased with the results. In the area around Plaza el Venezolano ...
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Venezuelan Indian: Speak like a native - Pemon and Warao basics
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010. Speak like a native - Pemon and Warao basics. A group of young Pemon porters take a rest on the way down from Mount Roraima. For many travellers to Venezuela the biggest worry language-wise is getting a grasp on enough Spanish phrases to book hotels and buses, order drinks and make friends. But what do you do in the areas of Venezuela where Spanish is not the natural first language of the people who live there? From my experience, there is no better way to raise a smile and ...
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Venezuelan Indian: Piaroa Shaman at FITVen2013 Says Come Visit Village
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Friday, November 8, 2013. Piaroa Shaman at FITVen2013 Says Come Visit Village. You don't meet an authentic Piaroa Shaman every day. Joaquin Marquez and his son Alfredo came to Mérida all the way from Sabanito de Pintao in Amazonas State to take part in the International Tourism Fair, FITVen2013. For the Piaroa, the Autana is the stump of a giant tree of life that once held all the fruits of the forest. When it was felled a giant flood engulfed the land, creating the world of the Piaroa but connecting...
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Venezuelan Indian: Wayuu Myth 4: The Origin of Fire
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Friday, January 25, 2008. Wayuu Myth 4: The Origin of Fire. In the beginning people did not have fire. They were imperfect creatures who ate things raw: meat, vegetables, roots and wild fruit. No vegetables were cooked in the fire. They ate no prepared foods. Meat was not smoked, or roasted, it was dried. They hung it in the sun and ate it dry. But one day, when Maleiwa was standing next to the fire (Octorojoshi) warming his body, a young man named Junuunay came towards him, stiff with cold. Junuunay hid...
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Venezuelan Indian: Wayuu Video: The people and their native land
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Monday, December 24, 2007. Wayuu Video: The people and their native land. Wayuu Myth 1: The Way of the Dead Indians. Wayuu Myth 2: Pulowi and the Jewels. Wayuu Myth 3: Kasipoluin the Rainbow. Wayuu Myth 4: The Origin of Fire. Excellent blog. Glad to find someone who shares my love for this amazing country. Keep it up! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Visit my new blog Ecuador Travel Guide. For live travel tips and photos of the research trip for my upcoming book: "Culture Smart! 1 October, 2011).
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Venezuelan Indian: Piaroa kids snack on tarantulas in the jungle
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Thursday, February 10, 2011. Piaroa kids snack on tarantulas in the jungle. This cute little clip from the BBC's new Human Planet series follows a group of young Piaroa children from Venezuela's Amazonas State as they hunt for spiders to snack on. These are no ordinary spiders, but the largest spider of all, the fearsome Goliath tarantula ( Theraphosa blondi. The effect is similar to horse-hair itching powder on the skin, but if breathed into the throat it can cause serious respiratory problems. Recipe: ...
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Venezuelan Indian: UK explorer learns survival skills from Venezuela's Pemon
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010. UK explorer learns survival skills from Venezuela's Pemon. Famous UK explorer Ray Mears travels into the Venezuelan jungle to learn some survival skills from the Yekuana and Pemon Indians for a BBC documentary series on bushcraft. You can find the full documentaries on Youtube but here is my favourite episode, when Ray meets Venezuelan snake expert and naturalist Jesus Rivas and we learn a little more about some of the smaller inhabitants of the rainforest. 1 October, 2011).
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Venezuelan Indian: Kariña Myth 1: The Twins and the Origin of Yuca
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Friday, February 22, 2008. Kariña Myth 1: The Twins and the Origin of Yuca. The Kariña, or True Caribs as they are sometimes called, were once spread throughout the Orinoco and the Caribbean and are still found in Surinam and French Guiana. The main concentration in Venezuela is now in the Mesa de Guanipa in Anzoategui State, but there are smaller communities in Monagas, Sucre and Bolivar states. Translated by Russell Maddicks. Long ago the Sun slept with the Moon and she became pregnant. At the first cr...
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Venezuelan Indian: Seven Yanomami die in suspected swine flu outbreak
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Thursday, November 5, 2009. Seven Yanomami die in suspected swine flu outbreak. Seven Yanomami Indians living on the border between Venezuela and Brazil have died from an outbreak of the Type A H1NI "swine flu" virus in the last three weeks, according to reports from Venezuelan sources and the UK-based NGO Survival International. Bernade, meanwhile, told news agencies that: "everything is under control" and that many of the flu cases the indigenous Yanomami are suffering from are down to a seasonal flu.
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Venezuelan Indian: Yanomami-Sanema: The Origin of Fire
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Tuesday, March 7, 2006. Yanomami-Sanema: The Origin of Fire. Yanomami Myth 1: The Origin of Fire. This Sanema myth is taken from a report by Daniel de Barandiaran which appeared in the Venezuelan journal Antropologica in January 1968 and was republished in "Mitos de Creacion de la Cuenca del Orinoco" (FUNDEF, 1993). Long, long ago, Iwarame. The caiman, was a person like all the other animals. All the animals could speak. The caiman, was the only one who had fire. Iwarame. Who was also known as Iwa. When ...
