View from paraitepuy towards tepuis Cucenan (left) and Roraima (right)

...it is a long way to get to the base of Monte Roraima, still more than one day to hike across the dusty and almost shadeless Savana

Our guide Marco who is as well a porter on our tour, carrying food and equipment

...makeshift "bridges" across little streams

First camp with Roraima in the background

Fantastic sunset

Various more or less unusual plants on the way up

The basecamp at the foot of Roraima - vertical rockwalls making up the tepui are an average of 600 meter high

...now ascending the tepui

Vegetation suddenly changes quite a bit: It gets rather humid and in place of the Savana the densely overgrown foot of Roraima appears

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The steepest and narrowest stretch up to the top of Roraima

On top many little and bigger water puddles and again different plants!

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View over the ridge of Roraima

...another

Weaher is a constanly changing element up there, this time fog suddenly appears

Pink sand

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Natural pool with warm water heated by the sun

Our "hotel" - tents put up under overhanging rocks to protect us from the nightly rain

Our guide and cook Marco preparing another delicious breakfast!

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A bigger natural pool for swimming, but difficult to reach and freezing cold

The so-called "Tripple Point"
Here three countries meet: Brasil, British Guyana & Venezuela of course

Interesting view in the evening when the clouds rise between the two tepuis Kukenan and Roraima

Giant ferntrees at the bottom of Roraima
In the background the steep rock walls of Roraima with waterfalls
everywhere coming down from the rain of the previous nights