The Gas Crisis in Venezuela Made Riding Impossible | S21 | E6

Motorcycle Adventure Tour
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Jan 12, 2026
Join us for another chapter of our 32,000km South America motorcycle adventure. In this episode, we will show you the gas problem in Venezuela. Also exploring remote roads, scenic routes, local culture, and real adventure motorcycle travel. Expect long-distance riding, off-road challenges, border crossings, and authentic moments from the road - all part of this multi-country journey through Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. If you enjoy adventure riding, motorcycle trips, and real-world travel stories, this episode from Venezuela is for you. Gear up and ride along!
Good afternoon is there gasoline
Only expensive
Only expensive Not for a motorcycle right Why
I now have oil at maximum roughly 70 to 80 kilometers
I hope we find oil before that
Three hundred
Very good very good
Brazil
Thank you so much thank you so much
Good afternoon it's 5 a m I can
hear the car but we have no power
Last night everything was working—the air conditioning everything
But not anymore
Many bridges and here we saw two open oil stations
So it seems the issue with oil isn't everywhere but rather in specific locations
Good afternoon is there any gasoline available
Only expensive ones
Only expensive Not for a motorcycle right Why
Where
Ask the people in Carantera
Please I need gas I'm looking for fuel
Everywhere in Venezuela Only expensive ones No motorcycles
Everywhere in Venezuela Everyone
Here
Alright
Thank you very much
Well this was important information I’m sharing with you now
In this region in this state or whatever
it is selling fuel to motorcycles is prohibited—only expensive options are allowed
But he said in this region after that it should be fine
Many bridges many
Before each city after each city
Fortunately they don't stop
But there are many
This road is nothing now
Acceptable quality nice curves very slight banking mountains on the
left and it's full of spaces for things
I think most of the plants are located here
The famous Venezuelan beef
Year-round green grass and abundant meat
This valley was extremely long probably around 30 to 40 maybe even 50 kilometers
Just meat and fields
It was our first city
Of course very simple
Look oil They say they
sell oil everywhere in plastic
bottles More oil here
So even if it's not available at gas stations
you can buy it anywhere for 50 cents per liter
More here
This oil station is closed
There is no oil
Abejales left
This is our city
Before each city and after each city there is a police checkpoint
300 Very well
very well
Where are you
from Brazil
Welcome Thank you so
much thank you so much
As you can see they're only asking how many cubic centimeters the motorcycle is
Where are you going
Good luck on your journey
Check this out
120 These
kids are flying
Happy Holidays to your dog
What's up
Hey Thanks
Ah The cloak
Hey Very good very good
125
Twelve-five Yes yes Very good very good
Look look
These kids were absolutely fantastic
Say hello to the camera
Hello hello camera Hello Look
Champion champion
Look
Very good very good
Champion
Number one number one
These kids were flying at 125 kilometers per hour with this machine
Look at their wheels
Look
Look at this
Uh Hot really hot
And he was flying grabbing the sidestamp
I had a collision here today
Oh really
No no
I can't I don't have it
Only this
Very well very well
Yes yes
These kids were fantastic
Very good very good
This is the city we
need Abejales
Now we need to find the hotel
We didn’t book this hotel—we stumbled
upon it And I hope they have room for us
This is our hotel
In fact it's a fantastic place
The price is thirty dollars for both
Hotel Montana Andina
Thirty dollars for both meaning fifteen dollars person
There is a parking area
For parking motorcycles
Insurance
And now let me show you the room
It has a
pool A pool we can use afterward
Do you see this place Uh
Something we really needed after say a thousand kilometers
And after last night when we couldn't sleep well
Fantastic
This is the room
Two floors
The pattern is already in the bathtub
We have a refrigerator
We can buy a couple of beers
Excellent
Great Air conditioning
Yes we'really happy As
I said
we couldn't sleep well the night before But tonight will be great
It's still 4:30 p m just in time To
rest to get everything ready for today
We'll need to cover a bit more than a kilometer in
the next two days so this hotel will be just in time
Good morning
It's 5 o'clock in the afternoon
I can hear the cars
But we don't have power
The night before everything was working
Air conditioning everything
But no longer
There's no power left
I don't know when it ended
Probably around 3 o'clock
Can you hear
that Thank you
But that's fine
It's 5 o'clock in the afternoon
So we'ready to go
Let's get dressed
And we'll wait perhaps over half an hour to catch the daylight
Then we can begin
Alright let's go now
Goodbye
It's still dark
We'll have a
couple of kilometers in the dark Getting
light should take maybe more than
half an hour And it'll be fine
What we've noticed is that the locals
don't have the habit of switching
from high beams to low beams they just
drive with whatever lights they have
Look at this guy right now
But that's fine For
a short period of time it's okay
I have the sun
I now have oil reaching up to about 70 to 80
kilometers I hope we find the oil before that
Captain Ejo
We'll buy water here if we find any
Obviously oil
Good morning I need
water gasoline and also gasoline
No gasoline
Where
Thank you
Good morning sir I
need water and gasoline
Where In this house
Thank you
Good morning sir
I need gasoline
Approximately 10 liters
Ten
liters Yes
How many liters
4 liters
I need water too
Water For drinking
Here
More more
4 more liters
5 liters
That's how I fill the tanks
This is the situation at this moment
4 liters here
Bulgarians
Traveling On a
motorcycle All
from South America Everyone
How much is this gasoline
Eight dollars All
More
One more liter
Here
1
Yes yes
Eight dollars
They asked for eight dollars but I think we can haggle a bit don't you
Is it two liters
Two liters
Yes yes
Ten liters together
Yes Yes okay
So the price of gasoline was one dollar per liter
Ten dollars ten liters
But we also get about three liters of water for these ten dollars which is
equally essential and hard to come by
here—especially when you're drinking water
So I think this was a fair deal
So we can move on now
We have water
we have gasoline Excellent
He said that things will be a bit better in cities later on
So let's see
They said 100 to 150 kilometers here are a bit problematic
After that it should be fine
But I'm glad to see my oil tank full of water again
Now you see
Alright
It's raining and I'm taking a break
So it looks like it's going to be like this all day
Removing the camera
Putting the camera back
It's around 8 p m and the traffic has already
started I don't even know the name of this city
But it seems to be a busy place
No underwear no gear
See how many motorcycles are there What
are they waiting for
This was an oil station All these motorcycles
are waiting to refuel at the station
I can see the rain there
I can hear and feel it
That's just how it
is It had been raining
for an hour Done
The camera is back
All good
Looks like the rest of the day is going to be fine
There's an oil station here
And the line behind the oil station stretches nearly a kilometer
Thousands of motorcycles
This is Barinas
I hope I can find oil here
Oil stations aren't an option
There are too many people
Here is the oil station
And now you can see how many people are waiting for oil
Too many
Eventually
The oil station is open again
Good morning sir
Do I need oil
You don't have any
A little
five liters Nothing Where
How many kilometers
Roughly how many kilometers
Here
Thank you
Below
Thank you
I've seen a place that
sells oil Let's go take a look
This is the line for oil
Do you have oil
Dollars Do
you have oil
in dollars A bit more
Many cars motorcycles
In the city
Is it
5 10 liters
Where
Where are you going
Bulgarian
Bulgaria
Are you going to Bulgaria
Where are you going Where
Brasília
Colombia Venezuela Brasilia
The one who does the tourism is the autistic person right
Yes yes
Thank you
Do you have oil
Yes I do
Two liters two liters
Two
Two
Please Where are you going
Where
