From Buenos Aires to Canaima

A friend from Buenos Aires send us this chronic os his travel to el Salto Angel in Venezuela: A friend of mine from Venezuela told me about Canaima in the southern part of Venezuela after seen a couple of pictures of the Salto Angel I knew it was my destiny to go there.

 I bought my ticket and 3 weeks later y was embarking a plane in Ezeiza (Buenos Aires) with destiny Caracas. I arrived to Caracas and was suppose to say in this beautiful Caribbean city for 3 days.

The city is beautiful, is not has dangerous has the media reports, you just have to take some precautions and you would be ok, I even was able to go to the beaches in La Guaira about 20 minutes from Caracas. Afterwards I left to Bolivar the state in which Canaima is located.

 My trip to Canaima: The flight lasted one and a half hour. During the flight I was able to contemplate the beautiful rain forest of the Bolivar state, it's big rivers, cascades and its unique mountains called tepuys make the landscape breathtaking. Excited, I remembered my experiences traveling through Latin America, I had been in several Latin American forest but I was really looking forward to seen this one, its unique tepuys and its majestic Salto Angel made me feel amazing.



 1st day in Canaima:

Once I arrive I was receive by the people of the Waku Lodge Hotel and Canaima Tours, they gave me a beautiful necklace made out of Peonias seeds, this supposedly give luck to the holder. There are no words to define the excellence of the service in the Venetur camp of Canaima with comfortable rooms and the service was impeccable. Once I was set up in my room one of the guides of Canaima Tours, Nicolas Serratto, called out the people to start the excursion tu the lagoon Canaima, a marvelous natural form that is surrounded by the waterfalls El hacha and El sapo. This two waterfalls create a wonderful sound that becomes louder the closer we got to the waterfall El hacha.

El Sapo Waterfalls

This excursion to the cascades was unbelievable we went through the back part of the waterfalls, that exact moment was infinite. Around 7 pm we went back to the camp Waku Lodge. There we ate dinner, it was delicious the gave of us different traditional dishes from Canaima. We ate torta de casabe, Laulau and a bunch of different desserts with outstanding presentations also I had the best rum of my life. It was late and we were all tired so we headed back to the Venetur hoyel, it was hard for me to fall sleep, I was too excited because I knew that tomorrow I was going to the biggest waterfall Salto Angel



2nd day in Canaima: 


 We woke up really early, it was 4 am in the morning and we were with Nicolas Serrano and the shaman Isaac Garcia we were waiting foe the tourists operators so we could start our adventure. We arrive to the (aborigines boats) called curiaras, only them have the right to sailed in the waters nearby Salto Angel, the sun made a beautiful (siluete) of the tepuys in the horizon. I embark my curiara and after 45 minutes I arrive in a (sabana) very similar to the ones in africa and walked surrounded by tepuys for a while. In the other side another boat was expecting us, we sailed for about four hours approx. We sailed through the rivers Carrao and Churun until we arrived to the Salto Angel even dough it was a very exhausting trip all the tourist didn't stop taking pictures the whole trip.

Everyone was very amazed with enormous rock formations that are supposed to be the oldest in the world we were right in front of the Auyantepuy. A bit pass 11 in the morning I was in third phase of the trip to the top of the tepuy, the next stop was a viewpoint.


 Through the entire path we saw the waterfall Salto Angel, but we were only able to see the tip of it because it was cover by the clouds.  When we arrive to the viewpoint I was able to see the unique trees, big hills and the sheer road in Canaima Park.

We also were very lucky because the sky was clear and we were able to see the tallest waterfall in the world, Salto Angel. A Russian tourist was expressing out loud how he felt so little in comparison with enormous waterfall that has 980 meters in height. A few meters from the viewpoint you can find a small pound in which the water of Salto Angel falls, we all took a bath in there and I felt the energy of Canaima passing through my veins.

 Salto Angel At 2 inthe afternoon I was in the bottom of the tepuy inside a palm house called churuta, having lunch and getting ready to head back to camp

Overwhelm I said goodbye to the second day of this adventure in third day I will arrive to Roraima, I will tell you all about it the my next post.