Today will always be known to us as the day from hell. It seemed that everything that could possibly go wrong, did! Being woken by the military doing a luggage check was the sign of things to come. The saying "things can only get better" was not relevant or even remotely true for today. We were hauled off the bus and had our bags checked which took us twice as long as everyone else with all the side pockets in our bags. This made our bus two hours late too. Th...

After sleeping in the jungle in our hammocks we are pretty certain we managed to survive the night without eating any spiders or bugs. We had breakfast as a group and then packed our stuff and then had the journey home. It was the same route back only this time going down stream so it took half the time. It meant no numb bum on the way home but thirty seconds before we got off the boat the four of us, Maffe, Eric, Abigail and myself were absolutely soaked. Drip...

Day 2 of the Angel Falls trek was guess what.... Another early start. We all meet for food, pancakes, eggs, ham and juice. We were then informed we had three hours on a boat which was not expected. What made it worse was that he then said three boats a year capsize on the journey and none had so far. When we got on the boat it was not hard to see why some capsize and when we were separated to sit next to different people we were a little comprehensive. Within min...

We were up again before 7am to pack our bags and get ready for the journey to the Angel Falls. We had a quick breakfast and set off to the airport to begin our adventure. We arrived at the worlds smallest airport which was matched by the size of our aeroplane. The five person plane looked like it had been designed more for for a Lego man rather than humans, but we all fitted in just about and took off. Some of the views made up for the turbulence as it seemed we ...

We arrived at the bus station in Ciudad Bolivar sooner than expected with a nice and early start of 5am. After a brief wait and a call to remind the driver to pick us up, our transfer arrived. We went on a journey down a road which would have been smoother to drive over the alps. Finally our roller coaster of a ride finished and we arrived at a delightful compound reminding us of a little oasis. They had huts with thatched roofs and a swimming pool allowing us to...