Puerto Colombia

We finally made it to the beach in Venezuela, but we paid the price. The picture is of Puerto Colombia, a small fishing village behind the palm trees in the middle of the image. The price for this lush, Hawaii-like setting was a white-knuckle, salsa blaring, 1970s school bus trip up and over the lush cloud forest of Henri Pittier National Park. Gorgeous, but we were about as green as the ferns when we stepped off the bus. Hot and sticky with bugs at night completes the story behind the post-card image. But it was beautiful and it bordered on a real wilderness, Venezuela´s first national park and home to 43% of the bird species in the country.
-msk