Sunday, March 11, 2007

Flying to Canaima, Venezuela



Having felt generally unimpressed by anything over the past couple of weeks, I'm finally excited again about travelling to Angel Falls which is a minimum six-hour boat trip into the heart of Canaima National Park. Unfortunately as it's the dry season, the river is low so it's looking unlikely that we'll be able to take the canoes to the base of the falls. We're told the best we can hope for is a flight over the top, which is a little disappointing for everyone.

The flight to Canaima takes 1.5 hours in a rickety light aircraft. We pass over dense broccoli-like rainforest and land at Canaima camp at midday.

(Photo - taken by Bob (on the left))

1 comment:

bobstravelphotos said...

Maria.....I don't remember the airplane being "rickety" oh how we remember things, ha,ha
Bob