The way down Roraima is exactly the same way you get up, except instead of climbing up 6ft high rocks you have to slide down them and hope there’s something solid to land on. Also you have to do the last two days of the ascent in one day. We set off at 6am and [...]
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Roraima Trek – Santa Ana, Venezuela
Arriving weary after the overnight bus we transferred to the Backpacker Lodge in Santa Ana. Our rooms wouldn’t be ready for some hours so the owner gave us a suggested shopping list gleaned from years of experience of the demands of groups of unfit would-be mountain climbers. Inevitably we ignored this and went for a [...]
