Luis Miguel writes in Spanish from Caracas:
"I send some photographs of the trip in my CJ-3B from Teques to La Guaira. (See a map of the area, 130K JPEG.) We started in Caracas and went to Los Teques by a dirt road. Then we headed up the River Road. At the end of the river it was difficult, and at this point we had to leave 3 of the cars, that couldn't go up (a Jeep Cherokee, Samurai and a Ford Explorer.) We arrived at Colonia Tovar and stayed there for the night. In the morning we travelled to Punto Masa (5 hours on a dirt road) where we had lunch. Then we passed through Punto Cruz, Chichirivichi, Oriaco, and La Guaira on the coast, and finished in Caracas again."
The river road. | Luis' 1960 CJ-3B. |
Top-down weather. | CJ-3B seen along the way. |
Track through the Avila Mountains. | How did they get under that? |
Dual master brake cylinders. | On the beach. |
Luis just got his non-digital photos back from processing, and sent along two more pictures: in "La Bajada del Cochino" from Los Teques to La Colonia Tovar, heading down a 60-degree slope (80K JPEG), and going to La Colonia Tovar from Los Teques in the most difficult part of the trip (115K JPEG).
Thanks to Luis for the photos. -- Derek Redmond
See more on Luis' Jeep for the Avila Mountains, and his trips through Playa Paraiso and Aguaro Guariquito.
See also my 1997 photos of Jeeps in Venezuela.
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