Venezuela un bonito pais....

So after 2 weeks in Venezuela I finally got to upload some pictures. After a week on the beach in Margaritha Island, the Angel Falls (highest Waterfall in the world) was up on the schedule and it was breathtaking - see for yourself !! After 2 days in the area the I went another 2 days to the Orinoco Delta (a Amazon like area) enjoying some good food a very relaxed lifestyle and got attacked by tons of mosquitos :-)... By now I am in Merida and the next stop is Coro... but for thonight - Salsa dancing is on the schedule :-)



P.S.: I got tons of comments on my "colorful" pants.... :-) Guys I didnt buy them as regular pants they are beach-pants but as every jungle-trip includes crossings of rivers that is the most practical outfit to go in - so have mercy ;-)

Venezuela

After a 30 hour bus-trip including 2 landslides, some corrupt soldiers and a bit nerv-wercking swedish travel-compian I made it to Caracas in one piece. Caracas itself doesnt have a lot to offer - in fact it looks like one big Slum - so after 1 day the trip went on to Mageritha Island for 5 days of beach and sunshine.... next stop on Thursday is the Angel Falls and I am sure I will than have some pictures to put online.....

Cheers

Joe

Goodbye Colombia - Hello Venezuela..

After 4 amazing weeks in Colombia I will be going on a 24 hour bus ride tomorrow to go to Caracas and start exploring Venezuela. The last 3 days in the beautiful country I spent at Tayrona national park - which is a great beach park on the carribean coast of Colombia. See for yourself:

Ciudad Perdida !

The last 5 days I was hiking to the "Lost City" - 5 days of more or less hard hiking in stunning nature! Walking in "tropical" rain, crossing rivers up to hip-hight, tropical heat so that you sweat like you actually think it rained on you, constantly wet feet, shoes and cloth.... But as we had a great group formed of a Spaniard, an Austrian, two swedish Girls and a super-tranquilo guide everything was bareable !!!

Great times guys and hopefully see you again !!



P.S.: Yes guys I know you will make fun of my lovely dress code :-)

Colombia....

Is a beautiful country - and I have to admit I think I fell in love with it by now !! The people are welcoming and open, it is safe (contraer to what people usually think of Colombia), it has beautiful cities, stunning nature and great food.
After my days on the coffee finca I went to the party town Medellin, which has not much to offer other than stunningly beautiful women and parties until the morning (this is not a complaint - those two factors are fine with me :-)), so after a weekend of good parties I moved on to Cartagena, which is a beautiful colonial city and worth a trip to Colombia itself:



I wanted to dedicate this post entry also to a former co-worker of mine - Clayton Bell - who passed away yesterday caused by lung cancer. Clayton was a person never short of a smile, always helping and up for any fun or serious talk when you needed. The world lost a great person !! Rest in Peace Clayton !!

Joe