Merida

Merida is very ¨tranquillo¨, which is a work everyone here uses to describe it. The city is attractive, with narrow streets and narrow sidewalks, and little stores. It is a very popular tourist destination, but it seems that the majority of the tourists are from other parts of Venezuela. The city is full of little stores selling shoes, clothes, cell phones, ice cream, candy, underwear and other things. All of the fruit and vegetable stores look very much the same, and none of them are bigger than 12 feet deep or 8 feet wide. I finally found a small super market, in downtown area, but most of the bigger stores are outside down town, across the river.