Canaima National Park, Venezuela Travel Blogs

Devil's Canyon thin ribbon.
Feb 27, 2005 (19 photos)

... circling a tepui and back safe on the ground. Welcome to Canaima! I stay at an empty camp with hammock views of Laguna de Canaima and it's line of waterfalls (Saltos Hacha). The only other guests are a friendly couple from the UK, living in Caracas. As ...

How to blow your travel budget.
Nov 5, 2005 (18 photos)

... and best I found online. And being back in Venezuela, why not spend some more money and go back to Angel Falls and Canaima National Park. The place was amazing, so I have no problem to visit again with my brother, but I am pretty sure we could have ...

Canaima
Feb 16, 2009 (30 photos)

... planes they are about to fly?! Only in south américa. Possibly the funniest thing we have ever seen. Flight back to Ciudad Bolívar was a bit sad. Sad that the best 3 days o four trip so far are over. Brazil hás a lot to live up to after stunning Venezuela!!

Angel Falls
Oct 30, 2008 (29 photos)

... gezet (oftewel Venezuela heeft een andere tijd dan andere landen in hun tijdzone) - Hij heeft de vlag van Venezuela aangepast. Het orgineel had 7 sterren en een paard dat naar rechts keek. Om onverklaarbare redenen heeft hij een ster toegevoegd ...

Jungle walk and Angel Falls
Apr 12, 2009 (53 photos)

... them took a real shine to me.......suspect it is my british passport again, and not necessarily my wit, humour and charm! Venezuela has to be one of the most expensive places I have been. The police, national guards and military just walk the strets ...

Ciudad Bolivar to Canaima
Feb 15, 2009 (10 photos)

Got up, went down to the tour agency and we were given breakfast. We were both very happy and excited. In a lot better mood after all of yesterdays traumas. Went to the airport. Our guide sat as down and went off to sort everything out. He took a while, ...

Angel Falls
Jun 28, 2009 (8 photos)

... really was an amazing waterfall to see in person and one of those must see things if you come to Venezuela. We then headed back to the main village of Canaima causing some sore bums again.  It had poured with rain during lunch so the boat ride back in ...

Canaima Lagoon and the Angel Falls
May 20, 2009 (20 photos)

... moving along... Bundled into a little Cessna and buzzed our way 1.5 hours over endless forests and beautiful views to land in Canaima and pretty much jump on a boat right away to head for the falls down the Churun river. The rainy season has ...

Wet and wild at the Angel Falls
Sep 16, 2009

... camps that are located along the river. During our visit we also got to walk to several other beautiful waterfalls round the Canaima lagoon, and even walk behind them. Seeing the water surge down, so powerfully that it blocks the sun and billows out ...

Canaima y Salto Ángel, quatro días celestial
Oct 16, 2009 (11 photos)

... known as Angel Falls… one of the modern wonders of the world". The information on the back of the map of Canaima National Park doesn't really do Angel Falls justice, but then again I cannot think of words to capture its beauty either so I will not ...

The End of the Beginning
Apr 2, 2008 (5 photos)

... Set against the backdrop of green, flat top mountains the sound of gushing waterfalls plummeting from them, Jose was our tour guide at this national park.  He gently helps people out of the boat, and says to each one of us "just hold on to me, that's ...

Beach paradise wth a twist
Aug 8, 2008 (9 photos)

... it was time to depart. This time on a bigger (20 seater) plane. A wonderful excursion. Travellers tip- if you book to go to Canaima, book for an extra night in the camp, or a flight a day later and book the camp when you arrive. We would have loved to ...

Angel Falls and Roraima
Jan 18, 2007

The Canaima National Park in Venezuela is huge!  There was so much to choose from amongst activities.  Most of the group went off on a 3 day tour of Angel Falls, and got to see the falls from below and fly over them in a plane.  I really ...

Into the wild - Canaima and Angel Falls
Jan 12, 2009 (13 photos)

... We had to take two planes, including an hour in a small 6 seater Cessna that landed on a tiny airstrip in the Canaima National Park at the settlement of Canaima, followed by a four hour journey in a motorised dug out canoe flying up rapids and getting ...

Angel Falls
Aug 24, 2004 (43 photos)

... , French, 2 more Italians, a Japanese and a Venezuelan, we arrived at a small town for our flight into Canaima National Park. The flight in a 6-seater something was fantastic! Though, I swear the final turn just before landing was lower and sharper than ...

Wonderful Waterfalls
Nov 2, 2009 (30 photos)

... requires another payout (departure tax), excess baggage – we were only allowed 10kgs each!!! and arrival tax to the Canaima National Park. The flight itself was an experience, we were totally unfazed by the fact that we were on e-tickets but very ...

Wet and wild at Angel Falls
Aug 6, 2008 (9 photos)

... to land. Canaima airport is a thatched roof at the end of a gavel runway. Rustic and lovely, with 6 waterfalls that feed the Canaima Lagoon behind. There are lovely curios (pity we have no space) and a stall where we have our first enpanada (corn flour ...

Angel Falls - Canaima Lagoon
Jul 29, 2007 (51 photos)

Kerepakupay Vena: Tallest waterfall in the world, a.k.a. Angel Falls - now named after an American Jimmie Angel, a jungle pilot whose plane got stuck at the top.  The land surrounding the area was surveyed and mapped by Latvian immigrant, Aleksandrs ...

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The higest waterfall........ In the world!!!!
Nov 23, 2009

Well I wasn´t going to go here but a 4 day trip by light aircract (only slightly bigger than the one I fly!) and going though the rappids in a wodden cannoe and I got into the middle of the Jungle to see the Angel Falls. The higest waterfall in the world ...

Lies and Water
Oct 9, 2008 (58 photos)

... for the second main part of the trip. Another chalupa, though a much shorter trip this time and less rapids across the Canaima Lagoon, before starting a walk through hills and savannahs to the top of a smaller waterfall, named Salto del Sapo (Frog ...