Before I would leave Santa Elena de Uairen I wanted to take the absolute last chance to find backpackers here. I drove towards the border and turned right at the sign board for the airport. I had never been at the airport before, had never considered this an option to find backpackers, I did not ...

I had walking on my things to do list for today. I did not want to drive too far out of the city and so I decided for the only other mountain ridge that was bordering Santa Elena de Uairen. I had to start calculating exactly how much I would use the car in the ...

I went to the terminal; saw an indigenous snack bar just opposite and decided to have a quick breakfast. Just when I sat down a car drove by and threw a cigarette out of the window. The dry grass immediately caught fire. The fire moved forward bit by bit but then the bus terminal’s handyman ...

Happy birthday queen Sabine!!! I had decided that I would practice walking up to the day that I would finally make it up to Mount Roraima. I started today at the indigenous community Mana Krü close to the house of the mother of Luis. I parked the car next to the gymnasium and had chosen the ...

I had quite some work to do here in Santa Elena de Uairen, I needed my jeans to be fixed, I needed the broken tire to be fixed, I need my clothes to be washed, I needed to work badly again to upload posts to the site, I needed money, I needed more people in ...

The procedure this morning was the same as 2 month ago. The petrol truck was still working to fill up the petrol tanks of the gas station while the first cars arrived and queued up. Cars with the lid on the right side had to enter the que to the left and vice versa. Everybody ...

I went first into the airport to have a drink and to search for a plug to charge the battery of the camera. The whole airport did not have a single plug available. Between the male and female bathrooms were two automatic water dispensers, a lower one for children and a normal one for adults ...

My original idea was to stay the whole day in Cumaná and continue driving only tomorrow but already yesterday night I had changed my mind and had decided to stay only half the day and leave around lunchtime. The money was running out and I wanted to have the chance to stay in an Indigenous ...

Before the owner of the snack bar could finish his preparations, I was ready for breakfast and ordered the ham and cheese sandwich. The quality had not changed overnight; I was just too full from yesterday to have a second one. I asked for the way out of the city and continued back to the ...

I had included a National Park in the tour for today and was hoping to go for an extensive walk again. I was pretty disappointed about my performance during the mountain walk from the Bay of Patanemo to the Bay of Yapascua. I had to walk more often if I wanted to reach the top ...

I was the first one at the Zoo this morning and I was the first one at the coffee stand outside the Zoo to ask when the doors would open. The old man just said “under reform” and I had to look for an alternative program. I had already seen the city center yesterday and ...

No roads from Puerto Cabello further along the coast than to the Bay of Patanemo, I had to continue driving inland. After the city of Valencia I took the first exit off the motorway to drive up into the hills. I had mountain walk and history study on my things to do list for today. ...

I went to the center of the old town and to the only bakery open just opposite the main square and had an orange juice and a ham and cheese toast. Just a short drive and I had passed the port and the military naval area to reach the first beach of Puerto Cabello. I ...

The light went on in the cyber and I was the first to enter. I wanted to do what I had planned to do, upload three more posts onto the site. I did not have the time to complete my task; the unbelievable happened again, the server had a blackout. Today I was kind of ...

Three is my lucky number and today was the third day of me trying to access the internet. I went to the cyber and the look of my girlfriend said yes. The server was back, Facebook was back, the children were back, I was back, toilet paper was back at the supermarket on the main ...

I went straight to the cyber but my girlfriend looked at me with sad eyes and told me that the server was still down. It was market day today in Tucacas and this would give me at least something to look at instead of walking up and down the main street. The market was big ...