April 2010 News

About real bad luck  26.04.2010

In a really great windy season at El Yaque Beach 2010, some people surely have been very unlucky. Those who spent the past three weeks in the little village, expecting nothing less than a very high wind quote, had to deal with the worse time of the year, clowdy skies, a little rain and very few wind, just before an european Volcano decided to blow some ash in the air and make those people stay even longer in non windy El Yaque. The Ashclowd disappeared, together with those pretty unlucky people, and the wind is back at full strength

Flights from Europe  22.04.2010

Wednesday night the waiting was over, with the first international flight from Europe arriving at Porlamar Airport to get all people who were stucked here for almost one week and waiting to leave finally. Now the normal flight plans should be back on track and tourists won´t need to worry about their flights and concentrate on a good and nice holiday in the Caribbean

CANOA getting known  18.04.2010

Those people, who never take a walk upwind at the small El Yaque Beach, up to the Kitezone, might still not know the recently opened Restaurant Canoa. To change this situation, the Canoa just started with some nice evening Events with Live Music, Burger Happy Hours and much more. Another nice place you should have checked out during an El Yaque stay

Tourists stucked  17.04.2010

The immense Ash Clowd all over Europe, which was caused by mayor eruptions of the Volcano Eyjafjallajökul at Iceland, affected more countries and their Airports as expected. So far all mayor europian Airports had to be closed and more than 17.000 flights per day cancelled. Tourists who were expecting to leave the Island of Margarita and those who were expecting to start their holidays this weekend at the Caribbean Island are stucked at the airports or had to stay longer at their holiday destination. When exactly the clowd might have disappeared and the Airplanes will be able to leave their actual Airports is still open

Ash Clowd affects also El Yaque  16.04.2010

The immense Ash clowd over northern Europe, produced by the Eruption of an Volcano in Iceland, also affects the tourism in El Yaque. Many northern european Airports have been shut down, no planes landing or departing and so of course also all planes leaving to Venezuela. At one of the mayor travel days for El Yaque, this friday, it is still not clear if the airplanes will leave the european airports or not. The Ash clowd is still moving south and so even more countries and airports might get affected. An Airtraffic Chaos like this has never happened before in history

Medical Center  14.04.2010

The El Yaque Medical Center is finally working again. A New Doctor will be available at the "Ambulatorio" at the El Yaque Mainroad, next to the elementary school. The Ambulatorio has been built some years ago but wasn´t occupied all the time, while the french El Yaque Doctor in the Hotel California had to deal with all injuries or emergencies alone.

A proper touristical place  12.04.2010

El Yaque is surely well known as one of the windiest places during wintertime and a touristic place for wind addicts only. Year after year right after the easter week, when party crowds and most Wind and Kitesurfers have left the Village, El Yaque shows its second face. With the summer getting closer, the days longer and even more sun throughout the day, the colours seem to change much more caribbean like, the few people taking sunbathes in the morning and Windsurf or Kitelessons in the afternoon make people feel like in a proper touristical place, very much enjoyable, quiet and for easy cruising windsports.

Margarita Wildwinds 2010  11.04.2010

After the Wildwinds revival in 2009, the 2010 Windsurf and Kitesurf Competition in El Yaque is coming closer and so the official Margarita Wildwinds website just went online for all Information about the Pro Am Contest  www.margaritawildwinds.com

El Nino - part II  10.04.2010

Already in December El Yaque News reported about the weather phenomenon El Nino, which usually ocuures every 4 to 5 years, when the water surface of the Caribbean Sea doesn´t warm up as much as normal and wind same as water currents change and cause droughts at the eastern part of Southamerica and Central America. Now Metereologists started to talk about a second type of the El Nino, caused by global warming and coming from the eastern pacific ocean towards the caribbean. The actual weather situation in latin America seems to proof that theory, with changing weather now in april, hard rainfalls at both coasts, the west and east coast, floods in Ecuador, Chile but also Brasil and Venezuela. El Yaque lives under a clowd cover already for almost two weeks, which doesn´t let a normal wind come through and has hardly been seen before

From high to low  07.04.2010

As a touristic place certainly El Yaque has to deal with various high and low seasons. The change from very high Season during Semana Santa, where every single room at the Island of Margarita seems to be overbooked, to low season right after the easter week is a very drastic one. From one day to the next the people vanished and only vew Wind and Kitesurfers remain at the now large looking beach. Usually it lasts around two months before the national tourists decide to come back to their Island and to fill up the hotels. Lower flight and Hotel prices now bring more european tourists back to El Yaque for a couple of weeks, right before the Margarita Wildwinds assure another high season week

Cartagena Kite Contest  03.04.2010

One more time the El Yaque wind athletes prooved why they are considered some of the best in the world. Top Kiteboarder Aquiles Zabala, who was sent to the Colombian Kitesurf Competition in beautiful Cartagena by the Shampam Bar, Solokite Shop and the Margarita Extreme Kitecenter, paid it all back by winning the Freestyle Category . With not too strong winds and some small winds Zabala managed to perform at his best and leave his opponents behind