The terrible trip to Punto Fijo .. The Fixed Point!

Ok,... this eagerness to do something is gonna kill me some day,..

After a long deliberation on how to spend some good time..
Prince: Let us sit at home and play Net-hack..
Me: Let us go out.. see another part of Venezuela.. Coro and then Punto Fijo..

We went to Coro.. a long .. booooooring journey.. None of the trees on the
way were above 12 feet tall.. None of them had a leaf bigger than 1 sqcm.. thorny
dry bushes.. and dry land.. and dry everything.. for 4.5 loooooong hours..
And then .. Vola ! an abandoned city..Believe me, People in Venezuela take their vacation very, .. VERY seriously.. Not a door open..
We were so hungry.. we could go cannibalistic at the slightest pretext.. But NOTHING !! we were so disappointed ..
The websites said there is a very ancient church.. we went there .. it was not so much ancient as.. delapidated and closed for repair..
Prince's friend said that it is one of the most spectacular cities... he was exaggerating.. to say the least..
Our driver was in ever-so-much-hurry to reach Punto Fijo.. Apparently it is a Libre-zona.. duty free place.. (so .. you know how that goes with people who want booze and tax-free electronics)..
So.. we bid a momentary adios to COro and went on to Punto Fijo.
On the way though, we reached this most unexpected desert.. some what similar to
tale-kaadu near mysore.. a sandy, duny.. singing desert in the middle of no where!
that was nice.. We walked around.. in a minute.. sand was all over us.. and in every orifice you can respectably think of.. we walked around.. and... feet dug in to the scortching sand.. The only interesting thing was the guy who was riding his dirt bike on the sand.. i wanted to try it with him.. but Mr. Prince thought other wise..

And later.. we reached a church.. a small church really called a santuario de Gusape. It was FULL .. i mean LITERALLY FULL of .. plaques of gratitude to Jesus.. for granting people their wishes.. so many people thanking god for their cars with plaques carrying pictures of cars..... so many people thanking for children (attachments: pics of parents and children). we lit a candle their.. and bought
an overpriced straw hat.. hoping that i could put it to good use in the beach at
Punto fijo.. and some local sweets.. (ugghhhhhhhhhh.. it had sand in it)

Then after another hour of boring driving we reached Punto Fijo.. Believe me..
the WHOLE BEACH was a parking lot.. !!! People had put up their trucks one
next to the other.. with its trunk facing the waters.. they put their plastic chairs and table.. and men drank .. 2 feet further towards the water..women..and dozy men were sun bathing.. 1 foot ahead..kids.. ran around.. and building castles.. and
1 foot ahead.. was WATER !! if you wanted to walk on the beach.. you would trample
over some serious lard ! I couldnt tell the difference...if it were people sunbathing and .. sperm whales washing up !!
I was SO SO damn pissed off,.. we didnt stay there for a grand vacation of 3 minutes
and we were on our way back...
The return journey was .. event less.. and here I am writing about it !!