Tadpat on the way

Wow, what an experience!

Venezuela is our new favourite country in south america. Why?!

1. The people. We made awesome new friends which had a lot of interesting stories to tell.
2. The country it self. Venezuela has everything. High mountains, caribean sea, dessert, Highlands and "la gran sabana" with its Tapuis.

Well we arrived from the south in la gran sabana. This region is famous for the highest waterfall in the world (Salto Angel, which we didn't see) and for Mount Roraima which we saw from a distance. Because of the bad weather we decided to not climb it this time! :-)
But we have been at two super nice waterfalls. The first one, Qubrada Jaspe is red like fire. Incredible.
The second one was in a small jungle and we took a bath with the new friends we made. The water was ice cold and it was super refreshening after a hot day!

Then we took the bus to Caracas.
Caracas for us seemed to be a normal big city. Because we haven't been at the places where the people protest! Why protests?!
The actual politic situation is super horrible. They have an inflation rate of 500 percent! The companies stoped producing. In the supermarkets are almost all shelfs empty. :'(
The country is about to collapse! We wish the people we met all the best for a better future!

So, what is the cheapest Metro you ever took? For us it's Caracas.... 1 CENT for the both of us!!! Can you imagine?
We always took the Metro! Haha!

Next stop was Mérida. On the way we got into a military control. Every passenger needed to open ALL their bags.... took us around 1,5 to 2 hours....
Finally we arrived in Mérida and we love it. Beautiful mountain around where we did some daytrips (one failed because of a protest which we couln't pass).
Also we were lucky to be one of the first persons taking the brand new cable car up to Pico Espejo on around 4800 meter. 3 km altitude difference in 45 minutes makes you feel incredible dizzy!!!



After Mérida we went to Chichiriviche. Parque nacional Morrocoy.
The clearest water we have seen on our trip.



Wow. Paradise.
One day we did a tour to see different beaches. And the other day we met our friend we made in Mérida to enjoy a day at the beach drinking some beer in the water :-)



She also invited us to stay the night with her and her family. Thank you again for a wonderfull night (celebrating Colombias victory against Peru, playing Flip-Flop basketball, eating, chatting and laughing).



Our last night/day we spend with Natasha (our Couchsurfer in Caracas) at her beach house before we took the plane to Dominian Republic.8

Thanks to all the people helping us or enjoying the time with us. You have a beautiful country and we look foreward to visit you all again.

Since French Guyana we have been in Suriname which was a cool experience. We stayed few days in Paramaibo and New Nickerie. It felt strange because of the language (dutch) which is so similar to german but in South America! :-)
Suriname has an interesting cultural mix of ethnies.

Next country was Guiana. Where we only spend some days in Georgetown. Because we couldn't find a jungle lodge to work at...
Guiana is completly different again. Interesting to see as well.

After Guiana we entered Brasil again to spend two weeks with our lovely friend amanda. Thanks for everything you showed us and say hello to all the friends we met.

Hello again,
Our short stay in the south-american EU was a full succes.
We arrived in French Guiana by plane and it was hardly raining. Since there is almost no public transportation we needed to hichhike to the place where our lovely host live. Patrick hiding under a roof and me with the rainjacket made the second car stopping for us bringing us to Remire Montjoly.
Here Taddys dream came true. In january 2014 Patricks birthday present for me was a meeting with a sloth! Finally and I didn't expect to happen that day, we had the chance cuddeling with these beautiful animals! <3
My feeling hit me directly with my first and favourite sloth in this place called Kourou.

Patrick, Kourou and me (from Patricks sloth we don't know the name)


Also we had the chance to see a rocket launch. It was crazy because we stayed in Cayenne which is 65 km away from where the rockets are launched. And again because there is no public transport we needed to hitchhike. No problem and really quick. BUT the rocket center canceled the launch 3 times. And we went to Kourou 4 times. Finally on monday it went and we have been around 7 km away from it. Its crazy and super loud. Really impressive what power is going into the sky!

Soyouz 14 with its satelites


Afterwards we went to Suriname. Again back in south america! :-)

I write about it soon!

Have fun. Love.

Patrick and Taddy

Hey everybody,
I know that it is already some weeks ago that I wrote the last time.
Now we left Brazil. After almost 3 months in a beautiful country with lovely people.
We started coming from Paraguay to see the Iguazu Waterfalls. Man that's a lot of water!!!! Puh!!! So after Taddy got attacked by a coati (we had something to eat and they wanted it!) we made beautiful pictures of this stunning nature wonder and got wet while standing almost unter the waterflow. Almost.... :-)

Next stop was Rio for Carneval. This is the craziest party. We had a lot of fun in the city and in sambadromo was awesome to see, yet not what we expected! Beautiful coulores and costumes. Also the cars are super! They work the whole year for ONE day. They spent thousands of Dollars for this! Great to see!

This is one costume



From Rio we got a super offer to fly to Recife which is far in the north. Some thousand kilometers....
Here we went to see beautiful Olinda with its multi coloured houses. As well we went to Porto do Gallinhas. A nice and famous beach! Recife itself is quite run down in the center and super chic on famous beachfront area. Interesting mix! :-)

Canoa Quebrada was very easy going. We had off season so it was calm and we liked it a lot.
Fortaleza for us was cool but its a huge city so we only spent three nights there and went on to Jijoca.

The beautiful place where you can lie in hammocks IN the water. There we were also celebrating our 2 years travel birthday! Woohoo!

Two years celebration...



Everybody told us you NEED to go to Jericoacoara. So we went. It was funny but it looks quite artificial and only build for tourists...

A place we really loved is Camocim. Ment to be only a one night stay we felt in love with this really authentic fisher town of Brazil and it's lovely people living there.

Because the bus connections on this part are really bad timed we needed to stay in Parnaiba as well. We've been there for the weekend. So we spent most time waiting for busses which go less frequently! :-) but also there is a nice beach where all the locals go to.

Sometimes you need to be lucky to meet the right people, telling you something. So we already read about Lencois Pequena but we didn't really know where it is. So our busdriver told us that it is 10 minutes walking distance from Paulino Neves. So we decided to stay there. Wow. We had one awesome sunset. I will never forget the play of coloures around us!
Finally we went to Barreirinhas to see the big Lencois Maranhenses. Wow. Incredible.
Ah sorry what is Lecois.... its a national park where you climb up a 60 meter sanddune out of the forest and on the other side there is only sand and lagoons but no forest. So incredible nature!!!

Us in front of loagos bonita



It was hard to say good bye to lencois, but we had a flight from Belem so we needed to go further. To Sao Luis. First it looks little dodgy but if you stay there you find the charme of the old part of the city. Here is also a center for arts and a lot of exhibitons are for free. Cool!

Belem was a great city to say good bye. We met a lot of locals with an open heart and had fun with them. Also Belem is a great place eating Shrimps! Half kilo is around 1 USD. Yummi!
All in all we had a great time in Brazil! Thanks a lot.

Now we are in the EU ;-)

Love you all

Patrick and Taddy