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Angel Falls

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

24 Feb – 26 Feb, 2005

Trip to Canaima, and Angel Falls, the world’s highest. Travelled by small plane to Canaima, then by boat, spending two nights near the falls. Very impressive.

Jungle from the air
Jungle, from the air. En-route to Canaima, from a 6-seater plane. Not a break in the trees, other than the water courses.

Behind a waterfall
About 100m of the trail is behind the torrent of water. It is like a wall, although near the edges, the force is a little less and you can see out. Yes, we got wet! Very wet! Although, there are some amazingly dry pockets to be found.

Poisonous tree frog
Poisonous tree frog. Complete with bright warning colours.

Angel Falls
Salto Angel – Angel Falls – World’s highest. 979m! There is no way that this photo can convey the height of almost 1 km that the falls drop. Even standing at a distance, or standing almost at the base, we could not comprehend the scale. Really, a magnificent sight.

Bathing in Angel Falls
Bathing at the base of Angel Falls. Not directly under – I don’t know if it would be possible to bear the water coming down from that height – After the first cascade.

Impromptu umbrella
Impromptu umbrella. Caught out by a sudden downpour.

Canaima
Falls at Canaima.

Rock slide

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

22 Feb, 2005

Parque Tobogan de la Selva. A sort of natural water slide, where the river runs down over a smooth rock face in to a pool at the bottom.

Natural water slide
Richard coming down, out of control…

Natural water slide
Jo’s turn

Tarantulas in a jungle adventure

Monday, February 21st, 2005
18 Feb - 21 Feb, 2005 Las Amazonas. Trip in to the jungle, from Puerto Ayacucho. Sleeping in hammocks in the jungle. Tarantulas, and swimming in rivers with piranhas. We even got to see tropical tetra ... [Continue reading this entry]

Morrocoy National Park

Thursday, February 17th, 2005
15 Feb - 17 Feb, 2005 An attempt to get some beach time. Unfortunately, the rains and floods in the preceding weeks left the beaches littered, mainly with driftwood and organic material, but still very clogged up. Will have ... [Continue reading this entry]

Happy Valentine’s Day

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
14 Feb - 15 Feb, 2005 Stopped for a couple of days at Las Trincheras, south of Valencia. These thermal springs are (allegedly) the second hottest in the world, at 92 degrees celcius. Luckily the water is cooled ... [Continue reading this entry]

Mmmmm

Friday, February 11th, 2005
11 Feb, 2005 Carora. We only visited for the day, but we had our best meal in Venezuela here. Doña Celina, was the name of the place. We enjoyed the most tender and tasty goat dishes, and ... [Continue reading this entry]

Anacondas, piranhas, animals galore

Monday, February 7th, 2005
2 Feb - 7 Feb, 2005 Highlight of our trip so far. Go and look at some of the photos. Just a tiny sample of what we saw in Los Llanos. Can't wait for the real photos ... [Continue reading this entry]

Doing it hard, doing it easy, in the Andes

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
28 Jan - 2 Feb, 2005 Hiking around Mérida was fabulous, coming down to the cute town of Los Nevados. Excursions to hot springs, rides in cable cars. Garlic ice-cream One of over 900 flavours at the ice-cream ... [Continue reading this entry]