Campamento Morichal Canaima
Travel Blogs from Canaima National Park
Only the Highest Waterfall in the WORLD!
... cascade too closely: just enough to get thoroughly wet. Don't worry about whether the canoe can take this sort of punishment. Measuring the hull with my fingers, it has to reconstructed in solid wood at least 8 fingers thick! We might sink under our own weight, but nothing is going to tear this baby apart!
Our brush with the power of these falls survived, we reach dry land again for the next stage of today's adventure, a trek to the next stretch of falls ...
A tepui, some water and an angel
... so it is by Cessna and then by boat that people reach the tepuis, and in particular the most fascinating of them, the towering Auyantepui. When tourists get there, they usually forget about how tired and soaked they are (the trip by tiny boat is pretty intense, ie 4h long, uncomfortable and very wet) and just stay speechless in front of the world highest falls, 979m, ...
Must be missing an Angel
I am writing this a little after when I visited Angel Falls, but what a great way for me to think back how this was by far my most long and tiring journey and a mesmerising view, when we arrived to see the highest waterfall in the world, I realised the journey was worth it in the end.
I am back for another visit back to to Caracas national airport for an early flight to Porta Ordaz and another flight to Canaima ...
Kerepakupai merú, Highest waterfall in the world
"Héi, do yoe whant me tzoe book zhe Angel Fallsch thour fur you tomorrow?" roept Dieter vanaf de binnenplaats van de Posada naar boven. Wij liggen lekker te luieren in de hangmatten op het open terras want een lange nachtrust is ons hier nog niet gegund. Direct naast onze kamer heeft de grappigste bouwvakker van Venezuela de 180db luide deurbel gemonteerd en tezamen met het 'iedereen-moet-aanbellen-ook-als-je-s ochtends-om-5-uur-komt-werken-deurbelei d' is s ...
Canaima / Salto Angel, Venezuela
Dr Flug mit dr Cessna vo Ciudad Bolívar nach Canaima isch guet und ruhig verloffe. Mir sind nume 2 Passagier gsi. Logo, wär het scho e Flug am Morge vom 25. Dezämber...
Scho während em 1-stündige Flug het sich die schöni Landschaft vo dr Region "Gran Sabana" mit ihrne Flüss, Wälder und Tafelbärge zeigt.
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