Loading our boats (lanchas) with food and equipment (left, wooden) and provision for the day (right, aluminum) - and our group of 8 participants plus guide and boatman leave for a 5-day trip up the Rio Caura to Salto Para

View from the back of the boat over the wide river

Locals sell jewelry and other crafts in a small village along the riverbank

Hut where hang our hammocks, which would be the accomodation for the time of this excursion

Last bigger village before the waterfall, with nice sandbeach

On a daytour through the jungle to the amazing waterfall Salto Para

Our local guide explains about plants, animals and customs of this area: Orchids are found frequently here

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Reaching the impressive waterfall: difference in height approximately 60 meters, but the many sections of the falls make a very wide area where huge amounts of water go down

...water is foaming at the bottom of the falls!

...just before the drop.

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The sandbeach by the village at sundset

Our boat navigator after a (barefeet) trip through the jungle to a little natura waterslide

We have a short lunchbreak on a calm sidearm of Rio Caura

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