Culebra Closeups -- 1

July 23rd 2008
Amazon 3.0 -- Part 6 -- Culebra July 1-6 Tepuis and Mountains It rained all night. With the first morning light I could make out the main features of the area - the 1700 meter high tepui Huachamacare across the Rio Cunucunama and the 2890 meter peak of Marahuaca in the distance behind the Culebra camp. Usually partially shrouded in mist or clouds, sometime ... read more

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Kit Taylor

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Home is near Seattle, Washington, USA. Recently retired from professing economics. My main travel interest is Latin America, primarily Brazil and currently any part of the Amazon. Presently -- June 24-August 20 2008 -- I´m on my third Amazon trip, although this one started in Puerto Ayacucho and includes the Orinoco. Once I´d read Humboldt´s account of his trip through here in 1800 -- when many European geographers doubted there was really a river connecting the Orinoco and Amazon basis -- I had to see it for myself.... full info

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