The bus had been half full; still the operator had booked all people to the front and together. Before we had left Manaus I had picked an empty row, two seats together, had entered in my sleeping back and had tried to sleep, with reasonable success. We arrived at the bus terminal at 07:00 hours ...

Overnight my batteries had recharged and were back at 75%. I went straight to the Volkswagen dealer to speak to the manager. He had not arrived yet and I had time to sit in the waiting room and connect to the internet. I wanted to have a look at the possibility to fly from Manaus ...

Overnight my batteries had recharged and were back at 45%. I was thirsty but I had no money. The streets were completely empty, no one and definitely no Gringo around to ask for 1 Euro or even for 100 Bolivares. It was time to leave and drive to the border, for whatever reason I drove ...

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 ...

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 ...