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"South American time" was at play today - despite a 7am departure from our hotel and a five minute drive to the airport we didn't fly until 8:30-9am, and whilst landing at 10o'clock we didn't start our 4 hour canoe ride to the falls until 12:30pm! Angel Falls is not accessible by road, hence the 1-1.5 hour 6 seater Cessna flight (an activity in itself with beautiful views) followed by four hours in a motorized canoe, and finally a 1.5 hour hike. We got a taste of the Venezuelan tradition for all things deep fried - at breakfast of all things! A deep fried, corn (instead of short crust pastry) wrapped beef empanada at 8am! Greasy as you like, Chris couldn't even finish it! A bizarre coincidence awaited me when the Cessna landed - a friend ... read more
View from the Plane
View from the Canoe
Canoe Ride

South America » Venezuela » Guayana » Ciudad Bolívar July 6th 2010

We woke at 6:30 in an attempt to begin our day of travel before the sun got too hot, but even at 7:30 our 1km walk with 20kg packs (plus a few kilograms on our fronts) was very uncomfortable. Two loaves of bread purchased, we hopped on the 45 minute bus to Puerto La Cruz from where we would catch a bus to Ciudad Bolivar, the jumping off point for Canaima National Park and Angel Falls, the highest waterfall in the world at 983m. Typical South America - when I asked two of the men from the bus company how long the journey would be, I got answers of 3 hours and 6 hours. I give up, I can't wait to be back to English reliability and access to information (relatively speaking that it). Anyway, an ... read more

South America » Venezuela » Guayana » La Gran Sabana June 11th 2010

the tour to Gran Sabana... read more
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South America » Venezuela » Guayana » Roraima June 1st 2010

the sic days trip to Roraima...... read more
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the village from where all the Roraima and Tepuy trips start...... read more
Plaza de Bolivar
around Santa Elena
walking around Santa Elena

South America » Venezuela » Guayana » Ciudad Guayana May 23rd 2010

The nicest half of the two Ciudad Guyana city parts - Puerto Ordaz & San Felix... read more
National Parque Cachamay & Loefling
Rio Cumani
Rio Cumani falls

South America » Venezuela » Guayana » Canaima National Park January 20th 2010

Having bought a ticket to fly from Ciudad Bolivar to Canaima National Park (one of the largest national parks in the world!) on Saturday, the tour operator then informed me that the plane had a mechanical fault so he would put me up in a hotel for the night and start the trip the following day. Needless to say I wasn’t pressed for time and a free night’s stay in a good quality hotel will always be appreciated. On the Sunday morning there were no such problems with the plane. The 6-seater Cessna got us to Canaima Village without any problems, but because of it’s size there is no room to store bags, so I was incredibly cramped on the back seat with luggage all around and couldn’t wait to get out. The flight took us ... read more
One of the Canaima waterfalls
Angel Falls

South America » Venezuela » Guayana » Canaima National Park October 19th 2009

We left Ciudad Bolivar three days ago for our 1 and a half hour flight to Canaima National Park. Our plane turned out to be a six seater airplane which was awesome. It reminded me of the little mini that my dad used to drive us to school in. The inside felt like it was around 20 years old with huge circular dials for the speed and altitude. It took off after around 50 meters on the runway, was like we were only going around 50 miles an hour. On arrival we were greeted by our tour guide "fready" who is also indiginous to the area. Our first day was spent going to the local waterfalls and swimming every 10 minutes in the ice cold river. We got to walk underneath two of the waterfalls which ... read more
The Cockpit
Rene and Yoshi
Friendly Parrots

South America » Venezuela » Guayana » Santa Elena de Uairen October 14th 2009

Tout d´abord je tiens a m´excuser des fautes d´ortographe, je prends jamais le temps de relire, et puis les claviers sont differents, ca me pertube!! j´avoue, j´ai pas ecris en francais depuis tellement longtemps que j´ai un peu de mal.. Promis, je refais des dictees quand je rentre! :) Bon pour les photos, ce ne sera pas encore pour cette fois.. A chaque fois j´essaye, mais soit la connection est trop lente, soit ca plante.. Aujourd´hui, ca a plante.. vraiment frustrant! Enfin arrives au Venezuela, nous avons un nouveau tampon sur le passeport! Les douaniers ont a peine verifie les passeports, ils etaient a moitie endormi sur le bureau! Ils ont quand meme demande les cartes de vaccination pour la fievre jaune.. Nous sommes maintenant a Santa Elena de Uairen, a environ 15 km de la ... read more
Santa Elena

South America » Venezuela » Guayana » Santa Elena de Uairen October 14th 2009

I am highly starting to doubt I will ever find an internet quick enough to load my photo´s up however I shall keep attempting, one of these days I might get one or two photo´s up ;) So we got our bus yesterday from Manaus overnight to Bo Vista in north Brasil. When we were on the bus I realised that I no longer had the form I was given at the airport on arrival. This form is to state how long you can stay in the country and was stamped by immigration. I read in my Lonely Plant book that if you reachthe border without it they deny exit and you have to travel back to a Banco do Brasil and pay a fine of US$75. I was so annoyed when I realised but all ... read more
In the bedroom in Santa Elena
Saint Elena




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