I Couldn’t Believe This Existed in Venezuela – EP.439
Colonia Tovar is such a surreal place. It’s called the “Germany of the Caribbean.” One moment you’re riding through Venezuelan landscapes and the next, you’re in Bavaria. Check out why it all happened!
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In April 2017 I left Australia for a solo trip around the world on a BMW F800GS. I named it “Are We There Yet” because I don’t know my final destination or the duration of this journey.
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VIDEO RECORDING DATE: MARCH 2026
23 Comments
Colonia Tovar is so beautiful. A little place from Germany in Venezuela! with its iconic White Houses with black stripes.
Hi Kinga 🙋 This was amazing to see A German city in Venezuela.But most people there today, are Spanish speaking.I'll have to look this place up,to see how many Germans are living their. Those mountains looked magnificent.
Corazón esa historia no es, se llama colonia Tovar porque un señor apellido Tovar le regaló esas tierras. Si hubo poca colaboración porque no habían vías para llevares cosas pero venezuela nunca ha corrido a nadie, por eso tenemos descendientes de 140 países
Los habitantes de llaman colonieros y son gente hermosa, honrada y buena gente
Every Nazi that could leave Germany, did so. Mostly Argentina for some reason.
It's been years since I've been able to go to Colonia Tovar. I hope you can have the opportunity to return soon, since it's not possible to see it all in one day. You're my favorite travel YouTuber! 😊
Your spanish really amazes me, you have that warm tone latín spanish has been given to. I'm glad you made it to Colonia Tovar too! I'm sure you won't miss the local beers and the sausages! Please take the chance to visit Ocumare de la Costa! If you could only wait to Día de San Juan…on June 24th you'll see the real, mystical Tambores.🪘🪘
Wow Kinga, this one is so amazing. You did a good job 👊🏼👍🏼💪🏼👌🏼🤩
Gracias por tu visita
La Colonia Tovar (en alemán: Die Tovar-Kolonie) es una localidad en Venezuela, capital del municipio Tovar del estado Aragua. Fue fundada el 8 de abril de 1843 por inmigrantes alemanes, en su mayoría originarios de la región de Kaiserstuhl, en el entonces Gran Ducado de Baden (actual Alemania).[2][3] Es conocida como la «Alemania del Caribe» o el «Pueblo alemán de Venezuela».[4] Su fundación fue promovida durante el segundo gobierno de José Antonio Páez como parte de un programa de colonización agraria que buscaba revitalizar la agricultura y la inmigración europea para reconstruir la economía venezolana tras la separación de la Gran Colombia.[5][6]
El proyecto colonizador fue impulsado por el geógrafo y militar Agustín Codazzi, quien, siguiendo una sugerencia del naturalista Alexander von Humboldt, estableció contacto con los pobladores de Baden para seleccionar a los colonos y el lugar adecuado para la colonia. La zona elegida, ubicada a 2200 metros sobre el nivel del mar en la Cordillera de la Costa, fue donada por Manuel Felipe Tovar, sobrino del conde de Tovar, en cuyo honor se nombró la colonia.[ wiikipedia
Wow wow wow…. 🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂 Gracias por ir a la Colonia Tovar
That's not the story. Read more about it.
That's the original uphill route from 1843 🙂👍
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It looks like in Southern America, you have to expect to find a German settlement whenever you open a drawer of desk! 🥳🤭 Me (I´m a Rhinelander with a Berlinian migrational background), I probably would be more welcome there than in the actual Bavaria. 🤷♂🤗
Excellent video …
Hey Kinga,
Thank you so much for the little history lesson of Colonia Tovar and your sympathy with the German culture – appreciated!
BTW: Colonia is the old Roman name for Cologne which is a town in Western Germany (I‘m sure you know;). So maybe the background is not Bavaria but Rhineland – my home region 🥳
Drive safe and much love from Germany 🇩🇪 😊
Founded in 1843 by Baden immigrants, Venezuela’s Colonia Tovar remained geographically isolated until 1964, exclusively speaking its 19th-century Alemannic dialect until Spanish was formally introduced in the 1940s. When Freiburg linguists studied the settlement between 1960 and 1980, they found a linguistic time capsule where young Colonieros spoke the exact colloquial language of their German ancestors. To preserve this archaic oral tradition whilst introducing modern Standard German, the Muettersproch-Gsellschaft was established in Freiburg in 1966 to foster cultural exchange, culminating in the formal codification of Alemán Coloniero in 1978 and 1987 by researchers Renate Redlich Perkins and Marlene Blanco Hernández.
Hello, darling… I knew you would like Colonia Tovar. During World War II, Venezuela welcomed many European and Arab ships without opposition. Sending a big hug from Washington! 🫂🫂🫂💯😘
That mountain range doesn’t belong to the Andes. This one is formed by the Caribean tectonic plate pushing underneath the South American one.
The Germans came from Cologne (Colonia in Spanish) and those lands were donated to them by el Conde (Count or Earl) Tovar. So the name became Colonia Tovar combining where they came from and who gave those lands.
I ride almost every Sunday there and yes. It’s a beautiful ride. Too bad you saw it during the dry season. Rainy season it’s all green
Colonia Tovar was established on Lands given by "Conde de Tovar". Naturalista Codazzi had something to do with it.
That vertion that says "we didnt want them here" seems hard to believe. I sugest you make some investigation in that sense
Esos alemanes que llegaron Venezuela definitivamente querian alejarse del mundo y que nadie supiera de ellos 😂😂
Geographically, the Coastal Range (Cordillera de la Costa) isn't actually part of the Andes, even though they look connected on a map. The Venezuelan Andes officially end a bit further west, around the Merida region. The Coastal Range is a completely independent mountain system that runs right along our Caribbean coast. It actually formed from a different tectonic movement—the interaction between the Caribbean and South American plates—which is why geologists classify it as its own unique mountain range.
thank you for visiting!! Enjoy my country ♥♥♥♥