Jungle Rudy's Ucaima Camp Canaima National Park

... water here is a bright reddish colour due to the tannins and iron in the soil and looks like Earl Grey Tea with a twist of lemon, the lagoon lined with soft beige beaches. <br><br>One of the falls, Salto Sappo, has the most powerful flow but only flows for about 6 months of the year. The rest of the time, during the dry season, no water goes over its 60 metre drop. Fortunately for us, we visited just as the rainy season finished so it was in full, if slowly declining, flow. The ...

... Ucaima, Golondrina, Wadaima, Hacha, Sapo and Sapito. We stopped for a swim in the pools of Salto Sapo and Sapito, and Jorge found a tattoo tree and took some of the flowers which contain ink to make temporary tattoos which are believed to bring good luck. Salto Hacha and Salto Sapo are both waterfalls that you can climb up and walk behind, although you do get soaking wet when doing so&#8230; very refreshing on a hot day J If ...

... was the girl in the other group who was dancing on the table earlier!<br><br>Returing to Ciudad bolivar was exactly the same but in reverse although this time I told the same pilot to do a spin so he lifted the plane as sharply as possible for a few seconds and then back to a neutral position (which felt just as bad as your stomach is trying to correct itself!).<br><br>next I go to Columbia.............<br>

... with his window open and arm hanging out. Despite him hanging on for dear life during the flight it ended up being pretty smooth and we got some spectacular views.<br><br>We arrived at Canaima and met our local tour guide. We headed out onto the river on a traditional boat and cruised up the river for about 4 hours stopping for lunch at a waterfall where we were able to have a swim and massage care of the waterfall. The boat ride was heaps of ...

Feeling revived after some down time in Choroni we made our way back to Maracay on the "boom bus" and made a multilingual buddy from Canada who helped us quickly onto an overnight bus to Ciudad Bolivar, the starting point of all tours to the Angel Falls. Pretty uneventful bus ride except for the subzero temperatures in the bus. We arrived at 4;30am pretty dazed and confused. "Luckily" there was a tour company just about INSIDE the bus as ...

One of my dreams was to go through the jungle in a dug out canoe and go to see Angel Falls, the tallest waterfall in the world. Well I have managed to achieve this and it was wonderfull, breathtaking and like a dream. I arrived in Canaima eventually after a couple of days of confusion and driving back and forth between two airports, where the plane I was due to fly on had a problem, went in a taxi (though at the time I could ...

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, we started to wonder what he was doing. He finally came back with a worried look on his face "guys, dont want to stress you, they say no flights leave today due to the elections. Im trying to sort it our. I know ...

... in number, and crazy finger like rock formations begin to appear at the.top of some of them. Out here it is just us and nature - a real into the wild experience. We have seen a lot of waterfalls along our travels but our first glimpse of Angel Falls (Salto Angel in Spanish or in the local Pemon language, Churún Merú) is jaw droppingly beautiful. Unlike many of the other falls we have seen there is a grace and elegance about Angel Falls. The sun was dropping ...

... wat op zich al een bijzondere ervaring is), kom je dan aan in Canaima; een dorpje in het midden van de jungle wat volledig ingericht is op het tourisme. Wel een dondersmooie locatie trouwens; aan een meertje met watervallen, palmbomen en witroze stranden. `s Middags naar Sapo (kikker) falls gegaan waar we achter de waterval langs konden lopen! Boven aan de waterval heb je dan een uitzicht op een soort Savannah en ...

... After realizing we could save 50Bolivares by sleeping in a dorm, with loads of beds and an open balcony view of a center plaza with palm trees and only one other occupant, we went to prepare ourselves for the next early morning´s adventure and called it a night. As promised Guillermo was there nice and early - strange for southamerican timing - to take us to the airport, and even though we were the first to arrive, we were one of the last ones to leave ...