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Remembering the long wait we had in Cartagena when we arrived in Colombia in 2025, we were now waiting there again - this time to load the car back on a ship to get it sent to Panama. However, we were now more experienced, and knew where to stay to be conveniently close to the port. There are lots of other parts of Cartagena, but to be safe from floodings with heavy rain, tourist traffic and whatever other event that could stop us, we stayed again in Manga. We were 8 minute

The first place in Colombia, on this second part of our stay there, was Cúcuta, the border city where we entered from Venezuela.  We stayed a couple of nights just to sleep and recover a bit from the stress of the border crossing.  We did a city walk on our own, and enjoyed the scenery and the fact that in Colombia you get vegetables for breakfast.  Good ones!  From Cúcuta we booked the car shipment from Cartagena to Panama, and we now had about a week to make our way and be

In order to reach the border with Colombia, we drove from Caracas to San Cristobal.  Daniel, one of our receptionists in Brasilia, and his father had put together a safe route for us to take, but we ended up changing one leg after advice from our tour guide in Caracas.  We drove from Caracas to Barquisimeto, then to Barinas, on to Merida, and to the last stay in San Cristobal.  Well, that was the plan.   The first section was surprisingly dry, and there were a lot of fires fi

Our next stop was Caracas, the capital.  This was the last capital city on the tour and we didn’t want to miss it.  The drive from El Tigre was long, but the roads were good and at least in parts the scenery was beautiful.  Harold had imagined nature to be green and lush, but instead we got mainly tropical dry forest, with little vegetation and the ground being very dry as it was the peak of the dry season.   Arriving to the hotel was easy, and the road we were on took us str