My first time sleeping in a hammock open to the jungle was fine however I didn't get a lot of sleep. A guy in a nearby hammock was snoring and if that wasn't enough made a right old din at 4:30am when they got up to trek to the falls for sunrise. It was surprisingly quite cold during the night. At 5:30am I got up to see the sunrise hitting the falls. However all we could see from the view point was a thick layer of cloud covering the entire mountain. There was ...

Liz was extremely petrafied about the prospect of taking a tiny five seater Cesna plane to Angel Falls gateway, Canaima. Canaima is not connected by any roads and is surrounded by waterfalls so the only way to get there was by plane. At the airport in Cuidad Bolivar we drove past the plane that Jimmy Angel used to discover the falls. It wasn't always here, Jimmy crash landed it onto the top of the Tepui (table mountain) that Angel Falls helps drain. Unbelivably ...

Liz's toe was getting better so we decided to book the Angel Falls trip and also took a taxi down to the bus station to book the overnight bus out. Hopefully we will have something for the diary soon. Met Gustav again at the eatery.

Very little has again happened today, we went out to the eatery across the road again. Here we bumped into a group of Russians trying to make themselves understood. They had just come from Caracas or to be more specific the Embassy there. They told us that a policeman on a motorbike stopped them and asked to see their passports. Believing this was a routine check one passport was handed over and the others handed over photocopies of their passports. The policeman...

We stayed in the pleasant pasada all day only briefly going across the road for something to eat. It however was a busy day for me travel planning whilst Liz carried on learning Spanish. I keep hearing stories about how dangerous the rivers are here. They actually have a competition of swimming to the other side, more a case of doing it rather than being first. The Cuidad Boliviar is at a very narrow point on the Orinoco just 300m across. Despite the amazing de...