Venezuela: Our hotel in Santa Elena, just over the border from Brazil
Venezuela: The Gran Sabana region has many many waterfalls
Venezuela: Many rocks and riverbeds are from rich red stone
Venezuela: These seemingly innocent little bites from minute insects are MUCH worse than mozzie bites and itch for days
Venezuela: Apparently some sort of aphid (Johan calls it a disgusting tree worm)
Venezuela: Traversing the Gran Sabana
Venezuela: Cooling down under a waterfall
Venezuela: Roriama tepui has a completely different plant and animal life on the summit, found nowhere else
Venezuela: A creek made of pure Jasper!
Venezuela: The room in our airy humble abode
Venezuela: Janine thinking about all the semi precious stone jewellery that can be made out of all this jasper!
Venezuela: The rainy season is absolutely beautiful
Venezuela: Leaving Ciudad Bolivar on a 5 seater plane to Canaima for our Angel Falls trip
Venezuela: One of the Canaima falls - we walked BEHIND the curtain of water a few days later...
Venezuela: We travelled 4 hours upstream in fast canoes to reach our camp at the base of the Angel Falls
Venezuela: Our camp was nothing fancy - hammocks with mozzie nets
Venezuela: This was the view from our hammocks
Venezuela: And then there was supper...
Venezuela: We enjoyed some of the most spectacular scenery of our whole trip
Venezuela: At 976m it is the highest waterfall in the world
Venezuela: More cascades at the bottom of the falls where we went swimming
Venezuela: Imagine a waterfall from the top of Table Mountain down to sea level
Venezuela: Us. There.
Venezuela: Johan. There.
Venezuela: From the viewpoint
Venezuela: We had to get out of our boat and walk around a big rapid
Venezuela: Early morning at the lagoon
Venezuela: About 6 similar waterfalls pour into Canaima lagoon
Venezuela: A tour around the Canaima Lagoon was included with the Angel Falls trip
Venezuela: And then we walked BEHIND the curtain of one of the falls!
Venezuela: Us. There. We just walked behind the curtain all the way from the other side!
Venezuela: A last visit to the beautiful lagoon before we left for Ciudad Bolivar
Venezuela: Near Playa de Uva on Venezuela's Caribbean coast
Venezuela: A luminous green lizzard
Venezuela: Life is not easy
Venezuela: Just us on the beach
Venezuela: The small beach resort of Playa de Uva - we relaxed here for 3 days, doing absolutely nothing
Venezuela: Sunsets were amazing
Venezuela: Local kids playing soccer at Playa de Uva
Venezuela: We lazed our days away in this pool
Venezuela: Our humble abode at Playa de Uva
