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Located next to Lake Maracaibo. Its where I am currently living while working in La Salina, Cabimas.

It has a big bridge. It really is very big. They are all very proud of their bridge, and they sing and paint about it.

It fell down once, well a part of it actually, when a ship hit it. They fixed it all better and it is still going strong - hence the saying, "well, the bridge fell down once" meaning "anything is possible".

Driving

Driving in Maracaibo consist of two things: not falling into huge holes in the road, and not being hit by other drivers. To do the second, you must have an amazing sense of peripheral vision. They never, ever shoulder check, and will drift into your lane to avoid anything, even tiny bumps in the road. I mean tiny becaue I have seen cars come to a coplete stop to go over the rigdge in the road left by roadworks.

They also will think nothing of serving fully into your lane (head on) to avoid a stopping car in front of them. I once came close enough to an oncoming car I could tell wether the driver had brushed his teeth that morning.

As you can see, the roads definately take their toll on cars. This was the front left tire on my rental car.

I started the car the morning, and drove off. The car had had a very bad vibration in the steering wheel, but I figured it was just the alignment or something. However I noticed that at low speed the car seemed to be going over bumps. Strange. I check the tire, it seemed full of air. Hmm.

I drove from Maracaibo to Cabimas and the vibration was very bad. I stopped and looked at the tire again. There is defintely something wrong with it, but I couldn't see anything. So I felt it with my hands, apart from being hot, I noticed a swelling. Oh ok, the tire has an egg. Damn. Oh well, I guess I will just take it back to the rental place and get a replacement. Feel some more. Hey! There is something wrong with this tire. Holy moly! The tread has come loose from about half the tire! What would have happend if it came all the way loose at 100km/h!