Venezuela road trip 2014- Colonia Tovar

After a great first year in Venezuela we decided to tour around a bit before heading home. The first part of the trip was inspired by the Griswold family vacation- We left Caracas with surfboards (instead of grandma) strapped to the roof of the car. We stopped at Colonia Tovar, Choroni, Chuao, the Henri Pittier National forest and El Limon, Morrocoy, Bejuma, and back to Caracas. The second part was Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's book "the Lost World". To see if there really were dinosaurs living on the Tepui's we flew to Ciudad Bolivar and then Kavak. We explored canyons, journeyed by indigenous canoe, and slept in hammocks at the base of Angel Falls- didn't find Conan Doyle's creatures but had an amazing time. Will try to do justice to each of the legs of the journey- enjoy!

Colonia Tovar: like being in Germany... In Venezuela.


So way back in the 1850's a boatload of Germans came over and were given a little patch of land. They went about making it as German as possible- architecture and pork sausages all around!

Try saying this with a Venezuelan accent

Deadly Weapons on a wall

It was a great start to the trip, this was our little cabin, we felt like we were in the mountains, we could walk all over the place, and the food was incredible.

Church of the sleeping dog

See previous posts about the quality of VZ beer- then my happy face will make more sense as I found a nice little heffeweizen.

The gift shop sold slingshots,

 as well as strawberries.

So a great start to the trip, we left Colonia Tovar full bellied and happy with a little more oompah in our lederhosen- ya das is gut.