torsdag 12. november 2009

Aruba; "One happy island"

After one month in cool New Zealand, I was ready to enjoy two lasy weeks of my vacation on the beach in Aruba....and of cource do a lot of windsurfing. But things did not go as planned. My new Venezualan sister, Susan, let me stay at her place for a few days, and then helped me find a really nice appartement, with my own swimming pool, to rent for the rest of my vacation....for local price (wich is half of the tourist price :D ) !!! I also managed to get local price in the windsurfing rental shop. The first days were amazing, with nice steady wind. I am very pleased that I managed water start during the second day :D But then the wind dissapared completely :(and there is not that much else to do in Aruba (if you don't like hanging out with rich American families, that is).

After some days walking around on the beach, I got an offer to go to Venezuela. So of course I joined the Venezuelan windsurfer, Leo, to his home town...a small desserted fishing village. Adicora is usually a great kite/surf/windsurf spot (the rest of the year :P) at the very tip of the Venezuelan coast. To sum up my week in Venezuela, I: tried to communicate in spanish with people who don't know a single word english, got stopped by military police with mashine guns because I didn't have my passport, ate "arepa" (corn bread), visited caves and a family living self sufficient in the mountains/rain forest, and did a little bit of surfing.

Lessons learned: water is almost more expensive than gasoline in V., never go anywhere in Venezuela without your passport, and for gods sake bring a stick to fight of the dogs in Aruba (they attack you!).
This must be followed. I got attacked.
Outside of the appartement I rented on Aruba. I had it all to myself.


After a great couple of hours on the water myself, I enjoyed watching the kite surfers in the sunset.


The cairn represent a wish (I made 4 :P ). You want to build the cairn as strong as possible so you wish will last a long time.


The Arubans like to dress up and party hard on Halloween.



Leo and a Brazilian guy after surfing in Adicora, Venezuela.

The landskape on the peninsula. Cerro Santa Ana in the background.



I don't know what the Venezuelan people do all day, but this boy was just standing there with his donkey.
A small concrete house up in the mountains. The goy living there guided us to the caves in the area.