It's a night bus ride away from San Felix and our final destination of the Orinoco Delta, the second largest delta in South America after the Amazon, covering 25,000 square kilometres.
At 7.30pm the night bus leaves Santa Elena and immediately the driver switches off the lights so there's no option but to try to sleep. The air conditioning is on overdrive and my fleece is inadequate in staving off the blasting cold air. I therefore sleep badly and when I'm thrown off the bus in San Felix at 5am I barely remember climbing into a dilapidated Cadillac taxi for the 2.5 hour drive to Tucupita, a hot river town and the jumping off point for Orinoco trips. The taxi driver has loud music blaring when we climb in but we soon kill his fun by covering his speakers with our daypacks so we can sleep.
Deprived of sleep we head to the agency that will take us down the river into the jungle.
(Photo - In Tucupita after travelling for 15 hours)
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