FOLLOW THE TRACKS OF
JIMMY ANGEL
2 weeks of adventure
Upon your arrival in Venezuela, we will fly to Ciudad Bolivar where we will spend the night. We will the opportunity to walk along the Orinoco River, imagining last centuries adventurers looking for rubber, gold and diamonds...
The following morning, we will drive South on a paved highway passing by cattle raising country and then through the jungle and mining country to reachto El Dorado, a mining town (but sadly also the site of a maximum-security penitenciary, Las Colonias Móviles, on an island in the middle of the piranha and electric eel-infested Cuyuni River). We will spend the night in a rustic camp in hammocks and mosquito nets along the Cuyuni River and have the opportunity to get used to the hot and humid weather before undertaking our expedition.
The next morning, we will fly by helicopter over tepuys, La Gran Sabana and Angel Falls and land at the crash site of Jimmy Angel on the Auyantepuy (height of 2,640 m., 8,665ft.) A guide and native Indians that will help us carry our stores and equipment will wait for us there.
Then 8 days of difficult hiking and camping on top of the Auyantepuy: which means “Hell’s Mountain” in the "Pemón" Indian dialect. The Indians rarely climb the tepuy, being scared by its bad spirits and its god Tramán-Chitá.
We will reach the Indian village of Kavac where we will relax for one day at the spectacular caves of Kavac.
From there, we will continue our adventure in Indian’s “curiaras”, motorized dugout canoes, through the rivers Akanan and Carrao, passing at the base of Angel Falls.
We will arrive at Canaima after 3 days of navigation and sleeping in hammocks in Indian jungle camps. We will take advantage of this spectacular location, its rose-colored lagoon bordered by a pink beach, its chain of seven magnificent falls to relax and rest from our feat.
Return flight to Caracas and to your final destination.
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Our other programs to
Angel Falls:
Excursion
3d/2n
"soft" River Expedition
Similar trip to the one you just read, but without the 2 days hiking to Amaurai
6d/5n
River & Hiking Expedition
Similar trip to the one you just read, but with an additional 2 days of hiking to a nearby tepuy, Amaurai
8d/7n
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