Overnight my batteries had recharged and were back at 25%. I was still weak and my legs were still hurting. I had eaten bouillon and an ice cream yesterday, the first food after a week and my stomach now had the size of a big marble toy. I drove to the main square, parked the ...

Overnight my batteries had recharged and were back at 10%. I was still very weak, my legs were hurting, I had not eaten for a week and my stomach had the size of a marble toy. Throughout the seven days of my adventure to Mount Roraima I had not really felt hunger and this morning ...

Yesterday I had managed to recharge my battery to 10%, this morning I managed to recharge my battery to 1%. 1% was not enough to make the fourteen kilometers back to Paraitepuy. I could stand, but hardly walk, I was exhausted and had no strength. I had to consider a different option, a moto from ...

I could not tell if I was feeling better this morning, I could not tell if my fever had dropped overnight; this morning I had no choice and so I opened my tent and had a look outside, the weather was sunny with just a few clouds. I was tired of my tent, not that ...

I had to recover somehow, that had been the plan for yesterday afternoon and yesterday night and it would be the plan for today and tonight. I had fever all night, I was cold all night and I did not recover all right. I was feeling equally weak, feeling equally ill and feeling equally cold. ...

I did not want to get up. I had fever all night yesterday. I was cold. I did not want to get up. I looked outside and it was grey, it was cold, it was windy. My body was weak, my bones hurt, my feet were cold and my legs were empty. I stayed in ...

I had a bit of a rest last night, I had to put on a jeans and a jacket though to stay warm inside the sleeping bag. In the early morning hours it started to rain and it was still raining when I took the first glimpse out of the tent. I wanted to stay ...

My first night in the tent was calm; my tent had been a good buy, good quality, light, waterproof and easy to build. I had rested and was hopeful for the day. I built off my tent and was ready, breakfast was not, and I had to be patient and wait. [videos file="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZOCZuUTHtE" width="" height=""]   After two ...

Same procedure as yesterday, my inner clock was working once more and I woke up one hour before meeting time. The group of Gregory had arrived and was complete and everybody met for breakfast at the restaurant of Toni’s brother, a getting to know breakfast. I had Pachita which is Venezuelan Spanish for Maracuja juice, ...

Finally after four days in Santa Elena de Uairen and more four days in Kumarakapay today I would start my last and biggest adventure in Venezuela. My inner clock was still working and I woke up one hour before meeting time. My back pack was more or less ready since I had started the project ...

Horacio did not come to speak to me yesterday after his music lesson so I went to look for him this morning. I passed the football pitch and went to the northern entrance of the village, passed the elementary school, the church, the First aid office and the Pre School. The church was about to ...

This morning I went to the river just outside the village to wash myself and to wash some clothes. Already yesterday I had noticed that I had about twenty to thirty mosquito bites on my arms and my legs, the mosquitos here are very quiet and you do not hear them coming or circulating around ...