Columnar cactus south of Mérida.

  

Off road through the Andes.

  
 
 

 

 
 

Our camp in the Andean cloud forest (2300 m above sea-level).

  

Bromeliads on the treetops in the Andean cloud forest.

  
 
 

 

 
 

On our previous visit here was a bridge.

  

In this area are a lot of fossils. (dry valley near Coro).

  
 
 

 

 
 

Gonatodes vittatus (loves the walls of Casa María).

  

Aristolochia spec. in the garden of Casa María.

  
 
 

 

 
 

Chrysalides of a pair of harlequin beetles (Acrocinus longimanus)
at Casa María.

  

Here a wonderful harlequin beetle (Acrocinus longimanus).