COLOMBIA
San Rafael del Mojan, Venezuela - Maicao, Colombia - 90 km
The ride to the Venezuela-Colombia border was surprisingly pleasant. The
landscape was scenic along a salt lake and, albeit windy, sported plenty of birdlife.
Soon afterwards, the road reached the immigration office, where an uncomplicated
crossing took us into our next country, Colombia.
Few things are more exciting than cycling across a border and into a new, chaotic
border town. A place where one instinctively knows you are in a new country with a
new set of rules. Hardly across the border, a fruit vendor offered us watermelon,
which instantly endeared me to Colombia.
Maicao was the first town we encountered and it took weaving through horrendous
traffic to find accommodation. Pavement restaurants were aplenty, and thus there
was no need to cook.