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