April 30, 2020
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Our porters on the journey are all from the local tribe of Pemon Indians.
The real adventure begins when our gear is loaded into 4X4s for the 20km journey to the start of the trek.
Once there was a time when the animals and the humans knew the same language and they could all understand each other.
At Ciudad Bolivar we pause to examine Jimmy Angel’s plane, rescued from a tepui top from where he crash landed in the 30’s.
The eight hour drive to the Gran Sabana offers the prospect of getting to know our travelling companions a little better.
“Caracas – murder capital of the world!” trumpet the uncomforting headlines.
How much adventure is too much? It’s a question I ask myself again as I prepare to leave for 3 weeks in the Venezuelan jungles.
In 1908 the adventurer, explorer, cartographer, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
The essence of packing for the jungle is to travel light. That is my theory and it seems a sound one.
Our porters on the journey are all from the local tribe of Pemon Indians.
The real adventure begins when our gear is loaded into 4X4s for the 20km journey to the start of the trek.
Once there was a time when the animals and the humans knew the same language and they could all understand each other.
At Ciudad Bolivar we pause to examine Jimmy Angel’s plane, rescued from a tepui top from where he crash landed in the 30’s.
The eight hour drive to the Gran Sabana offers the prospect of getting to know our travelling companions a little better.
“Caracas – murder capital of the world!” trumpet the uncomforting headlines.
How much adventure is too much? It’s a question I ask myself again as I prepare to leave for 3 weeks in the Venezuelan jungles.
In 1908 the adventurer, explorer, cartographer, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and occasional spy, Perceval Harrison Fawcett, visited the great
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