Ciudad Bolivar Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Ciudad Bolivar - > Santa Elena

Pobudka 5:00 rano - zdjecia. Mamy wlasciwie caly dzien na ´´´nic nie robienie´´. W nocy Austryjacy wraz ze Szwajcarami i opiekunem hostelu zabalowali. Czekamy az wstana. Lezacy na podlodze tuz przy wejsciu opiekun - Jose Carlos budzi sie i przychodzi do nas. Dopijajac butelke ruumu siedzi z nami i pieprzy trzy po trzy o tym czego on to nie robil...

Angel Falls

Early start today since the transport for the airport leaves at 7am; unfortunately nobody else was ready so we did not leave until 7.30. On arrival at the airport we had to get our tickets for the trip, each one handwritten, queue up to pay the airport tax and then rush to the canteen to wait for the flight which actually left at 10. The flight ...

Closeup to the Angel Falls and back to Canaima

My stomach is upset all night. We get up at 5.30am, have a coffee and hike up through rocks and roots to the viewpoint close to the falls. Only 2 problems, I feel like **** and its raining but its hot. We help one of the women over the stones. They are a gas group. Carmen is the mother (approx 60) who ran up the hour long hike fitter than a 21yr...

Ciudad Bolivar

Terug van Canaima en een paar uur later de nachtbus in.

South into the Jungle

The hour and a half flight to Canaima was beautiful. We flew in our little rust bucket over green pastures, swamp lagoons to thick jungle which inevitably consumed everything below us, except for the odd river which brightly and crisp in the suns reflection. Us 4 finally arrived in the dusty airstrip in Canaima, just clearing the trees before la...

End of the road

We arrived in Ciudad Bolivar approximately 5am with Henry and Glenn. Ciudad Bolivar has got its name because its the place where Simon Bolivar declared independance from the Spanish. Allthough this didnt come until 10 years later. Ciudad Bolivar is the last town before the southern Venezuelan Jungle. As we had quite a few hours to kill before ou...

Angel Falls

Canaima and Angel Falls To the extent that Venezuela still has a tourist industry, Angel Falls is the reason. Tumbling in a vertical drop of 979m (unlike much in this log, that is not a typo: 979m)from about 1800m above sea level the highest waterfall in the world plunges spectacularly from the top of a glorious flat-topped mountain. I'm sorry i...

Crazy waterfall jumping and deadly snakes

19th October 2007 - Day 130 Another early start as we had to fit in the falls that we had missed on the first day. As we bombed down the river, we were supposed to get off and walk around the rapids again, however, the driver decided to take the boat through the rapids with us in which was a lot of fun. We made it through and headed to Sapo fall...

Made it!

17th October 2007 - Day 128 So after an early start in Ciudad Bolivar and a lot of waiting around at the airport there, we took a 3 hour minibus journey to La Paragua from where we planned to catch a plane to Cainama. The journey in the bus was interesting to say the least with the two guys up front blasting Venezuelan music out at ridiculous de...

Angel Falls and Devils Canyon

After decided to give Caracus a wide berth, I bought a domestic flight to Ciaudad Guayan. At Guayan I caught a bus to Ciaudad Bolivar, where the conductor gave up his seat for me. Last seat on the bus....arrived in Bolivar just before 8pm. Decided to book my trip to Angel Falls with Gekko Tours as they have some good write ups on the Thorn Tree....