In Humboldt's Footsteps

A mix of travel tips, history, music and fine food as I explore Venezuela in the footsteps of the great German scientist and adventurer Alexander von Humboldt.

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Sunday, May 27, 2012

British climbers scale Venezuela's Autana Tepuy

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By Russell Maddicks A British expedition led by UK climber Leo Houlding has made the first successful ascent of the east face of Venezuel...

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Mutant hermaphrodite mega-piranha movie set in Venezuela

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You couldn't make this stuff up... Venezuelan mutant hermaphrodite mega-piranha trying to take over the world?!!?! Did they even sho...

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Jungle Adventures on the Casiquiare in New Book

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In 2005, the writers Richard Starks and Miriam Murcutt travelled to the remote jungles along Venezuela's border with Brazil and Colombia...

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Saturday, July 11, 2009

The Dolphin People - Novel set in Venezuelan jungle

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A small plane crashes deep in the Venezuelan jungle. A family fleeing the post-WWII nightmare of occupied Germany is captured by a warlike t...

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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Cerro Autana - sacred mountain of the Piaroa

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In the next few weeks I'll be travelling down to Puerto Ayacucho, the capital of Venezuela's Amazonas State. The plan is to jump in ...

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Russell Maddicks: After 12 years of adventuring in Venezuela I came back to try my luck in the UK. Although I try to visit Venezuela as often as I can it does tug at my heart strings some nights that I am too far from Choroni to hear the tambores on the malecon. Fortunately my job as a journalist in England allows me to follow Venezuelan and Latin American developments and keep my Spanish up to scratch. The UK is also a good place to do research and meet other like-minded Latin-America-philes for proper rum and salsa sessions.

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