Thursday, 17 July 2008

Angel Falls

On the first day of our trip to Angle Falls, we visited the falls themselves. We got to the falls via a 3 hour boat ride with scenary of the tepuis mountains all the way, it was very idealic. Halfway there we stopped off in one of the local indigeous peoples home for lunch, we tried some of their homemade bread, which we found quite sour. Luckily we have spaghetti bolognaise for luch rather than the bread. The waters to the falls were very rough at places, and somehow we managed to be sitting in the exact place on the boat where the waves would flood in, Samantha at point of arrival to the falls, was soaked through. We then walked through the jungle to a halfway point of the falls, where we could see the waterfall clearly as the weather was good. We then walked to our camp which was in view of the waterfall. We were sleeping in hammocks which was quite luxorious compared to the tents on Roraima. Next morning we were awoken by the guide as a very friendly and tame anteater was eating the remainder of the dinner from the night before. We then made our way back to the main camp and later on in the afternoon and visited the Sapo Falls which was an amazing experience. Our new guide, Oswaldo was brilliant, he made Samantha a crown from a jungle leaf. We had to wear our swimming wear for this experience as it was a very wet one. We walked behind the waterfall, which was a very noisy and windy experience. At the time of us doing the walk there was a thunder storm which made the experience even more incredible. We could see the sky flashing as we got soaked from the fall. On the final day us and a guy called Anthony from our trip went to a local indigeous restauraunt and surprisingly ordered the best burger and chips possible, which was a nice, but English way to finish the trip.

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