At the end of the year 2019 I will stop organizing weekly hikes. No specific reason; I just decided that after 6 years of doing this the moment has come to do something else. I certainly will continue hiking and taking pictures, just no longer as a guide but as a participant or on my own.

I have decided to keep the facebook page of Curaçao Hiking alive and to use that page to further promote hiking in Curaçao.

With the introduction of the new version of the hike to the Kabrietenberg (Mountain of the goats) a new challenging hike became part of the offering. I would classify the different routes as follows:

Most challenging hikes

• Mountain of the goats / Kabrietenberg
  Challenging because of duration and number of climbs/descents
• Seru Jamanika
  Challenging because of duration and challenging climb and descent of the Seru Jamanika

These two hikes will be done in a higher pace than my other hikes and with less explanation during the hike.

Two of my hikes share a large part of the route. These are Caracasbay peninsula and Kabrietenberg (Mountain of the goates). The first part of this route consists for both of these routes of a visit to Fort Beekenburg and the Quarantaine building. Both historical buildings with a lot of information to tell. So this part of the route takes more than 1 hour. That means that for people that attend both of these hikes a large part of the information is already known. That was always something that bothered me. So when I recently had a small group for the hike to the top of the Kabrietenberg, all hikers who already attended the Caracasbay peninsula hike, I decided to use this occasion to try another route. I combined parts of my original route, the route around the mountain and parts of routes by HBike Outdoor Curaçao into a new one. I reversed my original route so that the first stop is the top of the Kabrietenberg. Normally I do that at the end of the hike.

Since the introduction of the new route to the top of the St. Michiel's mountain via the Seru Blandan I decided to discontinue my route around the saliña of St. Michiel. In this way I avoided the part at the dam where at high water we had to go through the water. Another change is to consider the two variations of the hikes on the Caracasbaai peninsula as equally valid hikes, so instead of alternating these hikes, the one going to the top of the Kabrietenberg and the other around the Kabrietenberg  I decided to schedule each of these seperately. That means that each of these two variations will be done more often.