In fall of 2001 I went to Venezuela for a three weeks stay. One of my most impressive (and costly) yet vacations! All pictures were taken as slides then, because I did not start with digital photos before the Year 2004. Later on I selected scanned slides and now I processed these scans digitally using Adobe Lightroom third
In the fall of 2001 I spent 3 weeks in Venezuela on the road. One of my most impressive holiday travel so far!
All pictures I have taken then as slides, because it took another 3 years before I started in 2004, make pictures digital!
Below a few of the taken by me at the time images, the scans with the modest quality of that time I have reviewed the "silver bullet" Adobe Lightroom 3! In particular, the removal of many Staubfusseln from scanning is so ruckzuck!
What would the toll have been if I was already one of today's DSLRs with 12-16 megapixels would have been there.
A multi-day tour to Ingo as a tour guide : from Ciudad Bolivar in mind, we pass through - after a Directions of just over a day - the Gran Sabana impressive with its many waterfalls, rapids and the world-famous Tepuis (mesas) on the way to Santa Elena de Uairen the Venezuela-Brazil border:
At 108 meters high Chinak-Merú (Salto Aponwao)
Not far from the road: Quebrada Pacheco or "Arapan Merú"
Kama Merú or Salto Kama:
"The Bath" Sarowapo
The width of the Gran Sabana, with between 1000 and 1800 meters from the plateau towering Tepuis.
Quebrada de Jasper, the stream bed of jasper red lights.
The welcome sign for visitors traveling from Brazil to the Gran Sabana ago. In the background one of the in almost every direction to seeing, on the Gran Sabana of time pulling rains:
Our accommodation Yakoo near Santa Elena de Urai:
At the bus terminal in Santa Elena de Uairén. Two want out of the group to Manaus in Brazil, they're only 2000 km.
The six-seater Cessna on the runway of the small airport waiting for us on the flight northwest to another climax, the unique lagoon of Canaima in the rain forest.
The lagoon of Canaima National Park, founded in 1962 Canaima (Parque Nacional Canaima). The coming of South Rio Carrao divided above the Canaima lagoon into several arms in the rainy season rush incredible mass of water down here in several waterfalls. The flowing water forms a large loop, looks like a lake. However, one notices the strong current that conditions are different here!
There
Beautiful and stunning images from the lagoon in Canaima for example with the photo community to admire eg here and here and here and here, taken from the aircraft.
On El Salto Sapo in the lagoon of Canaima in the rain forest of Venezuela. The
El Sapo is a tourist attraction, a waterfall, can make the man! The trail leads behind the curtain of water roaring along, so to speak in touch with the water of the Rio Carrao!
In the dugout with a strong (and loud) outboard motor on the way to the Rio Carrao to Auyan tepui (in background):
The of tannins characteristic brown-colored water of the Rio Carrao (looks almost like Coca Cola)
If you sit so in a dugout, it may have often times happen that a heavy tropical shower of rain comes down. Perhaps a loud cracking thunder to it. reassuring to know that in the dugout is also still large petrol can be carried.
the middle of the current one is in the tropical downpour rain, despite their protection within a very short time soaked to the skin. A few dry shorts and a shirt quickly, to know the Indians. Unlike our rains here it is in the tropics after the downpour so warm as before. But if something is right have become wet, such as hiking boots, then it is under the weather conditions in the rain forest is often difficult to ever get dry again.
Several rapids on the way to Salto Angel must be overcome, a tough job for the Indians control the dugout. The luggage was unloaded, and we carry it over on a path to the rapids.
doing in front of us the view of the Kerepakupai Merú (Salto Angel, Angel Falls "), the highest waterfall on earth, up! The river is formed by the continuous rainfall on the plateau of the giant Table Mountain Auyan Tepui and then crashes on the edge of the massive total of almost 1,000 meters in depth.
The climb from the river Rio Churún through the tropical jungle - an incredible, moist root system - near the foot end of the waterfall is a stressful experience! Puri and Puri (mosquitoes) are also there.
When we were there (October 2001), came down only to a swirling mist.
are impressive waterfall and videos for this daring man is eg here, here and here.
Breathtaking views of the rock falls of the Tepuis the dugout on the river from!
Simple accommodation in hammocks in the open air, protected from rainfall. No power / light there, cooking on open fires in the darkness. For at night the creep and creepy-crawlies have (such as snakes, giant beetles and large centipedes ...) of free passage under the hammocks.
The next morning, more quickly the idea goes before the trip in a dugout:
intermediate through a country path, past the downed plane:
After 2 days with many hours in dugout canoes on rivers around the Auyan Tepui: a great experience, fantastic nature, but the day is hardly an animal to see, from time to time a bird. And the cries of monkeys can be heard, the are heard only, not to see too. Our ears are filled / stunned with the permanent Höllenlarm the outboard motor. Sometimes we also have a canoe with Indians seen on the river, which have much slower and calmer moved by punting with long poles.
Our river trip is over. We are received at the wharf by the son of "boat captain". The young man has lost a leg as a child by the bite of a serpent, his father had then set to the healing arts of the village medicine man, and no treatment in a modern hospital at the Rio Orinoco. In between us was the story of the seven-step Snake (seven steps snake) says. A really short story, because: by the bite you can still take 7 steps, that's about it ... Seems to be a global horror myth to be, because he is also told in other parts of the world, where there are poisonous green snakes.
The jeep is still not there. So we leave our bags and go away. On the way from the dock of the dugout to a village of Pemon we get through this savannah, the low evening sun bathes the landscape in a reddish-yellow glow. The unexpected hike took longer than expected but we are so thirsty and the first thing we need a beer, but where do we get this in the village?
evening mood in the Gran Sabana
In the darkness, we are then placed in a jeep on a bumpy dirt road to our very camp in Kavac. An incredibly beautiful experience: the night is filled with the bright yellow-green dance of many thousands of fireflies!
already much more comfortable to stay in these huts in Kavac: wait
The aircraft: 
landscape at Kavac
hike along a creek to the gorge of Kavac on us! After 14 clock flies no machine more from this airfield away, because then there are the tropical rain and thunderstorms!
flight to Canaima along the steep rock wall of a mesa
on the Caribbean coast in northern Venezuela, Santa Fee:
By car traveling east on tree-lined streets between Barinas and Acarigua the Venezuelan Andes. Along the road there are many stalls selling delicious fruits:
in the Venezuelan Andes on the way to Merida:
To the university city of Merida reach (Universidad de los Andes), we need to pass the 4007-meter Pico el Aguila - Cross - the highest pass in Venezuela in the Venezuelan Andes.
located at 3100 m altitude, the Hotel Los Frailes. This property with a great restaurant is located in a former monastery from the 17th Century.
In this rather barren area can be overlooked in any case, the pervasive characteristic silver-gray furry Frailejones plants, some of which have yellow flowers in a beautiful strong.
The name of this plant to me is not currently known: 
Cathedral and statue of Simon Bolivar in the Plaza Bolivar in Merida 
Some impressions of the city to the central Bolivar Square:
In the Universidad de los Andes:
The highest and second longest cable car in the world of Merida (1650 m) in four stages high with compulsory stopovers up to 4765 meters to the mountain station at Pico Espejo. More than 3000 meters in altitude and a good 30 degree difference in temperature it is given to overcome and to thrive physically. Above is one in the snow (and very often in clouds)
Here we go from the station in Merida:
The last stop before Loma Redonda the summit:
These modern cabins overcome the "airy" last leg to the summit :
landscape to almost 4000 meters:
view from the last intermediate station is high on the snow-capped Pico Bolivar, the highest mountain in Venezuela
Since August 2008, this exceptional cable car because of "old age" is shut down, after more than 50 years of operation. A new building is being considered, plans and computer-generated images for the design of the new cable car and the station are shown here .
the Internet today there are of course lots of beautiful photos and reviews about this fascinating and scenically very diverse country, such as here on the mesas in the photo community.
In connection with Venezuela today, I will sometimes refer to Gunther Wegner experience reports, photos and videos from Venezuela .
As an example of his work here is a special type of panoramic photographs taken from Table Mountain (Tepui) Roraima in the Gran Sabana in Venezuela.
A beautiful series of photos Gran Sabana are in the panoramic format is also available at Jens Demmig admire
That a Venezuela travel be quite difficult and unpleasant moments may have, it is here at " Venezuela turnoff " reported in detail, please check the discussion!
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