When you step off the $10.00, 13-hour, bus ride to the city of Coro, nothing strikes you as different or spectacular. It is dirty, rundown, and just normal for Venezuela. Then you head to a taxi with all your belongings, the most efficient and cheapest way to travel when there is no bus. You then ask to go to Los Médanos or the sand dunes. You expect a long ride, because you are literally in a city. The taxi takes you for a less than 10 min drive, and the taxi becomes silent. The city, the noise, the garbage, just stops. It is almost like the tree line of a forest, when it just completely ends. The city stops and the wondrous dunes just begin. For miles from there all you see is sand. We got out and just walked the sand dunes for a little less than an hour. We were hot and sweaty and full of sand by the end. Pictures do not do justice for what you have seen. Quite astonishing.
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