I went to the docks of Tucacas this morning and was quite hopeful to get to an island, especially after I had met a family with two children already waiting on the bench. I was even more hopeful when I saw that they were packed for a day at the beach. I was convinced that ...

I drove this morning back to Chichiriviche to either try to get on to the cave tour again to take more and better pictures of the stone carvings or visit the island Cayo Muerto opposite the square and the docks. I had noticed at my last visit already that a pretty drunk old man was ...

I woke up, drove to the main street, had a drink and went to the National Park Morrocoy to my favorite spot and had my morning bath for half an hour. Today I was not the first car to enter and my favorite place was probably the best place inside the Park and pretty desired, so ...

I was hoping for a tour today and in particular the tour to the islands. You have to be early, just in case, but I had to wait for more than one hour and a half before the first tourists turned up. It was a difficult day for the sales people to close a good ...

I arrived early at the center and the docks of Chichiriviche and was ready for the day. I had checked three times this morning to make sure my memory card was in the camera. I waited again for one hour before the first tourists arrived to negotiate their tour. My driver had sales people working ...

I arrived early at the center and the docks of Chichiriviche. I waited together with Lucas, a back packer from Poland for one hour before the first tourists came to negotiate a tour. My driver negotiated with two couples and signaled to Lucas and me that the negotiations were successful and that we would be ...

The only chance for me to get onto a motor taxi boat at a cheap price was to get on board of a more or less complete and paid for tour and go wherever the best offer would bring me to. On a weekend day the demand is high and boats are full pretty fast; ...

I wanted to work in the morning in my office to update the site and start working on an alternative route for the project. I was always watching with one eye the German Bundesliga though and my home team playing live. I liked the idea to take a ferry in Manaus and spend some time ...

First thing this morning was for me to enter the Park and go to my favorite place close to the lagoon and take a bath in the warm transparent water. Somehow I really had the feeling that, yes I was taking a bath in a huge bathtub with perfect warm water. Nobody was in the ...

I had spent a week in the mountains in Merida and wanted to spend now a week on the beach. I drove for about fifty kilometers when yet another road block stopped the whole traffic. I left the car and the air condition running and waited in the car. Just when I decided to have ...

For a moment this morning I was not sure if I wanted to leave or stay another day, I still had plenty of time in Venezuela and could have easily spent another day and have a special hamburger menu. Just a thought, I got into the car and left. I realized that I had to ...

I had planned a mountain tour for today again and started to leave the city towards the south. Just outside the city the road divided and I drove up into the mountains instead of down into the valley. The road was in good condition and the higher I drove, the more open the views became ...

This morning I went straight to the cyber to know if they are open. They were and I parked close enough to have a good signal, left the car running to have air condition and started to work. I had to catch up with the pictures, the writing and the uploading onto the site. I ...

Today was the anniversary of the city of Merida and I wanted to participate in the celebration, if there would be any. I went to the center and watched the elder playing chess on the floor, the children playing with the pigeons and had a homemade ice cream. Around the statue of the liberator Simon ...

The night was really refreshing at a temperature of 20 degrees. I have had a feeling of this climate, a climate in a region close to the equator and at the same time high in the mountains, when I was for half a day in the German colony Tovar close to Caracas. Now for the ...

I did not want to stay another night hoping for a miracle and for the lightning to come closer to the village and towards me. I was curious about the situation at a different border post and headed for the city of San Cristobal. I needed petrol and started to look for a gas station. ...

Yesterday I learned a lot about the real situation at the border. There was no legal way for me to leave Venezuela at the moment. I needed the stamp in my passport both for me and for the car. I did not learn anything about the formalities to enter in Colombia in case the border ...

I woke up fresh but did not know yet that I would need to be that fresh today. I had to drive from the airport back to Maracaibo, then all the way to the other end of the city and through the metropolitan area out to the north and towards the border. I drove against ...