Santa Elena de Uairen, Venezuela Travel Blogs

You're running out of money sonny.
Feb 25, 2005 (2 photos)

So I am on a 15 hours night bus ride heading north from Manaus to Santa Elena de Uairen, a small town in Venezuela on the border with Brazil. The air condition is turned on max, and everyone seem to have blankets, sleeping bags or jackets to cover ...

La Linéa
Oct 19, 2009 (6 photos)

... and it burns, burns, burns".  After taking an over-night bus from Ciudad Bolívar to the Venezuelan border town of Santa Elena de Uairén, I decided to stay for a day/night rather than plough straight through on another mammoth bus journey.  It's a ...

Dinosaur Hunting
Jul 1, 2009 (6 photos)

... none of the falls were serious thank goodness, only a couple scratches to remember the trip by. Last night we arrived back in Santa Elena, and awoke this morning to get a glimpse of old age. Both of us are taking several minutes to climb few steps, with ...

Venezuela and Mount Roraima
May 27, 2008 (9 photos)

... day and until we reached our ´hotel´!! This basically was a cave! We went on a excursion to the highest point to view Venezuela but alas the cloud had covered th scene once again. Nevertheless it was brilliant being above the clouds looking down. It was a ...

The Lost World
Mar 29, 2009

... buses to get to Belem, a flight from Belem to Manaus and then about 22 hours more bus time to Santa Elena which is just across the border in Venezuela. A tiring few days of traveling with little highlights bar a piece of a day spent cruising around the ...

Arrival in the Gran Sabana
Jul 2, 2005 (2 photos)

Our bus left Puerto Ordaz about 10pm and got to Santa Elena about 7 the next morning. The ride felt long, and wasn't very comfortable. For entertainment, every 3 hours or so throughout the night, we were stopped at military checkpoints where 18 year olds ...

Travel Day
Sep 29, 2006

As soon as we got off the plane we caught a taxi into town. The driver took us to the bank to get some money and to drop of Lukas and Marjan as they were staying here and going to Roraima. It was very sad to leave another new set of friends. The driver ...

Konecne Venezuela
Sep 14, 2007 (5 photos)

Na lodi jsem automaticky ztravila cast casu s ostatnimi turisty, Nemcem, Americanem, Mexicanem a Japoncem, abych je behem poslednich nekolika minut plavby presvedcila o krasach mist, ktera hodlam ve Venezuele navstivit a  ...

Exploring the lost world of Roraima
Dec 23, 2007 (11 photos)

Our next trip was a six-day trek up the famous tabletop mountain called Roraima. Southeast Venezuela is covered with this type of mountain, called tepuis, of which Roraima is the highest at 2800 metres. There was some confusion about what the ...

Six day trek up Mount Roraima
Sep 15, 2009

Our adventures in Venezuela started with a six day trek up Mount Roraima, a crazy table top mountain that soars out of flat plains surrounding it. I`m no geologist, but it`s quite spectacular. It was written about as the Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle, ...

border crossing to brasil!
Jul 13, 2006

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Tchau Brazil, Ola Venezuala
Jul 27, 2007 (3 photos)

... We head to bed exhausted both physically and emotionally, we feel really homesick for the first time. There was nothing to keep us in Santa Elena, the tour to Roraima (a flat topped mountain called a Tepui - the basis for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle´s ´The Lost ...

Sleeping on the sea bed
Feb 19, 2006 (17 photos)

... go down and empty your bag or show your passport. I'm sure they just did it because they were bored! We finally arrived in Santa Elena and found ourselves a posada for the night. But before even finding time for breakfast, one tour agency was asking if we ...

I conquered Roraima!
Feb 4, 2008 (33 photos)

... next:  Brazil!  Crossing the border tomorrow with the German couple on our tour to try to figure out a amazon tour.  Venezuela was amazing and there is still so much of it that we didn´t get to see.  Maybe for my next adventure.  ...

Santa Elena de Uairen
Oct 10, 2007

... over the boarder! Anyway, we picked her up again (just me and her on a massive bus) and made our way to Santa Elena de Uairen. Santa Elena de Uairen is a bit of a ghost town and although I wanted to arange a treck here I decided to pass on to Citaded ...

Broken down in the Gran Sabana
Jan 25, 2007

Bus broke

Trouble abrewing!
Nov 5, 2009 (13 photos)

... in mystery. Since leaving Caracas any previous flying experience has gone out of the window. Our next flight from Canaima to Santa Elena, further south on the Brazilian border was no different. And we were expecting problems with our bags again as a 6 ...

Santa Elena de Uairen
Sep 2, 2006 (3 photos)

... dalle nubi, i tepuy. Prima che arrivasse "la civita´" la sabana era popolata dalla popolazione di indios pemon.Santa Elena e´vicinissima a una piccola catena di queste montagne che i pemon hanno battezzato con nomi fantasiosi..l'indio che dorme, l'albero ...

In the Land of the Falls
Nov 19, 2007 (20 photos)

Santa Elena My next destination was the town of Santa Elena de Uairén, located in the Venezuelan southeast in a large savannah area famous for indigenous heritage, stunning and ever-mystical tabletop mountains or "tepuis" and countless of beautiful ...

A land of mist and rain (in Venezuela?)
Dec 24, 2007 (12 photos)

Roraima This mountain was one of the reasons I wanted to come to Venezuela, and it didn't disappoint.  I have plenty of gripes about the tour, even though we went with the company that is supposedly the best, and is the most expensive. Just little ...

Santa Elena de Uairen
May 31, 2007

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Santa Elena D·Uairen
Feb 4, 2009 (3 photos)

Het was wel leuk in da godverlaten dorpke en heel warm. Ik heb al een huwelijksaanzoek gekregen van de man waar ik dollars ben gaan wisselen en een hele lieve taxivrouw heeft me door de douane geholpen aan de grens. Amai, serieuze controle daar. Maar het ...

Roraima or bust
Jul 28, 2007 (39 photos)

... the Roraima Trek hiking crew and began the journey up the mountain.  Note that if planning on an overnight bus going to Santa Elena, you will probably not get much sleep, as you need to unpack your belongings four times along the way, during the ...

La Gran Sabana
Feb 15, 2008 (25 photos)

... sind scho wieder es paar taeg verbii und ich hock schowieder ame gaaanz andere ort ime internetkafi. jetzt bini gad ade Kueschte z'Venezuela, aber um das gahts da nonig. Di letschte Taeg bini ganz im Suede vo Venezuela ide Gran Sabana gsi. Das isch en ...

Santa Elena de Uairen
Aug 6, 2005

will update later

Roirama and Santa Elena de Uarien
Sep 22, 2007 (5 photos)

... ´s Hot: the black market, roirama (ie. pink crystals, endemic species, eerie cloud blown landscape), going into Guiana, Brazil and Venezuela within 1 minute of each other, the ¨window¨and the ¨jacusi¨, looking over the edge of a 500m shear cliff face, thick ...