About us
Joe
Klaiber was born in Germany where he became a joiner. With this
qualification he left to the Canadian outdoors. After he moved to South
America he started to work as a tour guide for German operators and
tourists all over in Venezuela.
Since 1995 Joe also works with photographers, botanists and
ornithologists from different countries as well as with bird lovers as
The German Institute for the Bird Research and the WWF.
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Joe and
Franz Mertens
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In 2000 Joe and Alejandra’s first daughter was born and they
opened the Posada Casa Vieja in Merida. Soon they started their travel
agency Caiman Tours. The team consists a young professional office
stuff with expert guides and the company has his own fleet of brand new
vehicles and buses. 2006 they bought a colonial house in the Andean
village Altamira de Caceres and opened a comfortable Lodge there.
From our guesthouse Posada Casa Vieja there are diffrent possibilitys
to do hikes on your own. One of the best is the Humboldt trail, which
is superb for cloud forest birding. Besides that we offer lots of
diffrent excursions in the country, daily organized by our travel
agency, like Los Roques islands and excursions to the Angel Fall in the
Canaima national park and others.
pauraque / great horned owl
Posada and Tours: http://www.casa-vieja-merida.com
Pictures on our Website: Thanks to our german
ornithologist friends Lutz Reissland and Wulf Kappes, which took the
pictures in several excursions they did with us.
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