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| The Route - Margarita > Puerto La Cruz > Puerto Ordaz > Upata > Somewhere > Santa Elena De Uairen > Some border town in Brazil (not on map). On the way back we went to Ciudad Bolivar instead of Puerto Ordaz (blue line) |
The Beginning
On the night of Wednesday the 18th, I went by ferry from my home island of Margarita, to Puerto La Cruz. The ferry took about four hours, and wasn't very interesting. We arrived in Puerto La Cruz at about 11PM, and went to the apartment of an AFS volunteer to wait for the bus to take us to Puerto Ordaz. That bus ride took about five hours and we arrived in Puerto Ordaz at about 8AM or something.
Puerto Ordaz - The 19th
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| A Monkey! |
So we arrived to Parque Loefling in Puerto Ordaz in the morning on Friday the 19th. There we had breakfast and walked through the park looking at stuff. There was kind of a zoo thing throughout the park, so we walked through looking at the animals. There were lots of little monkeys in the park that were pretty fun to look at. After we had breakfast some of them jumped down onto the tables to steal the leftovers, and they were fun to give food to. We also saw some birds, crocodiles, and what I think were a pair of leopards, although I'm not sure.
We then went to Parque Cachamay, which didn't have any cool monkeys, but was still quite a nice park.
After that we had lunch and then went to the Eco Museo (Museo=Museum). The museum had a bunch of stuff about the hydro power history in Puerto Ordaz, and some other stuff.
Day 2 - Camp Kama-Meru
The next day we left to go to our camp, Campamento Kama Meru. We stopped at a small town on the way, but didn't do anything particularly interesting. There was this old lady that yelled at us angrily, I didn't really catch what she was saying, it was pretty amusing though. The driving time was about 8 hours, and we arrived to the camp at some time that night. The camp didn't have hot water, which kinda sucked, but otherwise it was good.
Day 3 - Waterfall!
So, on day 3, we had breakfast and took some Jeeps to an Indigenous village named Iboribo, located on the banks of the river Aponwao. We then took small boats to a place from where we walked to Salto Aponwao (Aponwao Falls). We then spent our second and last night at the camp.Day 4 - Some More Waterfalls!
We went to some nice waterfalls. Yeah, they were nice, most waterfalls are. They weren't particularly interesting though, so I can't be bothered writing about it. We then made our way to the town of Santa Elena de Uairen, arriving at some time at night to a motel like place, I'll call it a motel. It had hot water, which was nice.
Day 5 - El Abismo! (The Abyss)
On the fifth day we took some Jeeps through a village called El Pauji, to a small mountain thing. We walked up the mountain, which took like, 25 or 30 minutes, although I can't really remember, it might have taken longer. At the top was a really super awesome view of the jungle and other mountains and stuff. After that we went to a small waterfall, from where we could jump from three metres into the water. It was pretty fun, I enjoyed it.
Day 6 -Brazil and the Way Back
So on the sixth day, we left in the morning towards the Venezuelan-Brazilian border. We then went to the Brazilian border town of Vila Pacaraima. We stayed there for a couple of hours and had a nice lunch, and then made our way back to the town of Upata, where we stayed for the night.
Day 7 - Ciudad Bolivar
On the seventh day we went to Ciudad Bolivar, a historic city named after Simon Bolivar, who also has the State of Bolivar named after him. He also has the currency named after him, Bolivares. Oh, and the full name of the country, The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. We first went to the Museum of Modern Art. It was pretty interesting, but I'm not a big fan of modern art. We then went to Plaza Bolivar, La Casa Congreso de Angostura, and the Museo Prision de Piar. It's a very historic district, and the buildings and stuff are very nice looking. I couldn't take any photos though, because the AFS people told us not to take our cameras and other expensive things because the area is dangerous. I think they were just being cautious though. Following that we went to La Casa de San Isidro, which was a pretty nice place. We then had dinner and had kind of a closing ceremony. After that we started the drive back to Puerto La Cruz, which took about 4 hours, and we arrived at about 11pm. We went to the same apartment that we were in at the start of the trip, and had a nap.
Day 8 - The End
So after sleeping a little we woke up at about 5am to go to catch the ferry back to Margarita Island. The ferry ride was about 4 hours, which I mostly slept through due to being extremely tired, arriving home at about midday.
And that was my AFS trip to La Gran Sabana, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I'll try to update my blog before the end of the month.
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