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Venezuelan team on Hummer expedition reaches Delhi
Indo-Asian News Service

New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) A team of four Venezuelans driving a Hummer - an American off road vehicle used especially in difficult terrain - arrived here Friday as part of their India expedition, traversing 50,000 km.

The 'Hummer India Expedition', which started from Chennai Sep 5, has visited Kanyakumari, Goa, Mumbai, Aurangabad, Jaipur, Jaisalmer and Agra.

The team will leave for Rishikesh Monday for onward journey to Allahabad, Varanasi and then enter Nepal.

After covering the Himalayan kingdom, the expedition will move on to Tibet and Bhutan, coming back again to India to cover Kolkata and finally ending in Chennai.

Driven by Tony Velasquez, the team comprises navigator Enrique Suarez, photographer Angel Bajares and journalist Pedro Castro Amare.

Hummer Expeditions is a non-profit organisation that explores most of the interesting places in the world for their natural and cultural values.

The first expedition started in 1997 as a team to Alaska. Since then, the expedition has explored La Amazonia, Los Andes and Teyuna, the lost city in Colombia, in 1998 and covered the African Sahara the next year.

The expedition has also covered Australia in 2000, southwest Asia in 2001, Venezuela in 2003, and the trans-American expedition in 2003-2004 crossed the entire American continent, from the South Pole to the North Pole.