We just arrived yesterday from a very big trip to the national park called Gran Sabana, in the south of Venezuela. We started driving to there at thrre o clock in the night. It was a horrible 10 hours ride, on two small benchs sideways in the back of the jeep! Our group (10pers.) probably looked like sardines in cans! The first night we stayed at Bruno's campside, an old swiss guy who felt in love with the venezoelan lifestyle and decided to spend the rest of his ligetime there! It was quiet strange to speak swissgerman with strangers, watching to swiss TV and listening to him playing the alphorn! It made me feel like home, but then in very different surroundings... As we found out the next dat, that place is very dangerouse.. Bruno had ... read more

Our first trip organized from the lodge I'm staying at, was a little kayak tour. With two people in one kayak we paddeled out to Caracas island, where we stayed for two nights. As you probably know, there's not a lot of space in a kajak, what means we had to fit everything in a 13 litre drybag. Our camp was a roof where we hang up out hammocks and mosquito nets. The roof was about 5 metres from the sea. It was just wonderful to fall askerp with the sound of the ocean and to wake up seeing the sun rising over the sea. We drank rain water and water from the rivers with clore tablets and ate quite delicious food out of pots on campfires! The program of the first day was paddeling to ... read more