Hi Everyone, Now started a period which included two of the bigger attraction of coming to Venezuela, first a visit to Angel Falls and second climbing Mount Roraima. Both trips required us to downsize our packs and carry only what we really needed. Angel Falls is a journey which takes in a plane journey, a river trip and then a hike before reaching the destination. We downsized to include just a change of clothing and some warmer kit for the evening. Departure...

Hi Everyone, From Tucupita we travelled further inland to the Orinoco Delta which is an enormous area of jungle only accessable by river. We made a 3 hour journey by a long tailed boat powered by 2 intermittent outboard motors. All food and provisions were taken with us, water, food, cooking materials, bedding, clothing, everything we needed infact. It is typical of this Country, where money can be best spent it is wasted. The Government give handouts to the lo...

Hi Everyone, An unusual Catagory for this update but there is a bit of a tail (no pun intended) which I know you will like because its consequence was suffering on my part ,that normally pleases most people! 24/07 - the following day we were due to go horse riding around the Ranch but due to the extreme temperature it was put off until the late afternoon. the day was spent deing at peace and enjoying the surroundings which hopefully you will have got some feel ...

21/07 Hi Everyone, This may not be very upto date now but a brief review of an amazing trip to Rio Caribe follows. We moved on from the camp and headed East along the coast to a wonderful beach fringed with palms and jungle, as you will see from the photos 'Rio Caribe', it is remote. This was the first real taste of discomfort, no showers, no water even, no toilets, we were on our own. The site was set Tents errected and we got generally filthy dirty! We all...

16/07 Hi Everyone, I have completed what is probably the worst leg of the journey, three flights, back to back finally arriving in Caracas, Venezuela at 9.30 in the morning having travelled for what seems like an eternity. I changed my first flight at Los Angeles and having no faith in the baggage handling systerm I took the trouble to make sure my main bag was not left whizzing around a carousel somewhere. It was fortunate that I did bacause having been told t...