Recovery Day!! I woke up still feeling a bit ill and having to rush to the bathroom. After some oatmeal for breakfast I decided to go back to sleep and on waking up the second time felt much much better. I decided I would wait another day here in Santa Elena and try get over this little stomach trouble before taking the overnight bus to Ciudad Bolivar tommorow night. The rest of the day I took it very easy and ate soothing foods like more oatmeal, papaya, bananas...

Ready for the Next Adventure!! Even though I was incredibly tired and soar lastnight I found it very difficult to sleep and spent most of the night thinking about my next move here in Venezuela. As the sun was out I put my clothes outside to dry and then started sending a few emails and uploading my photos. I had an arepa for breakfast and after eating for the last 7 days I am officially over these corn cakes - well atleast the crappy made ones. Unfortunately I s...

The Long Road Home! We were all up early this morning for the promised hot chocolate and amazingly at 5:30am there it was ready for us. For breakfast Jose gave us each 5 Arepas and an omelette type thing (trying to feed us well on last day to hope we don't complain), after breakfast we were rushed into getting ready and Jose and the porter took off without even telling us. We organized ourselfs and took some last minute shots seen as the weather was so beautiful ...

Day 5 Long hike Down!! Lastnight it was incredibly cold and the rain poured down for most of night and right near my tent a stream formed and had me feeling like I would be washed away. Breakfast was bit rough today with cold coffee and some kind of porridge - they must of ran out of food. Jose was keen to get going early so we headed off on the pouring rain and gale-force winds. It wasn't long before we came to the decent and unfortunately the weather worsened....

DAY 4 Exploring the Lost World!! After all the whiskey lastnight I managed to sleep really well and wake just as breakfast was being served. Today we had Arepas and omelette again and hot coffee which at nearly 3000 meters up surely is a treat. It was already raining and super cold out so we started trekking by 7am. I couldn't help but feel like we were walking on the moon and the silence along with the thick layer of fog created an eary feeling in all of us. We ...