Photo taken at Parque Nacional Canaima – Canaima National Park
On day 2 we had to cross two big rivers that separated us from the path to the base camp. There was no point of avoiding getting wet since the rain would get to us eventually
Photo taken at Parque Nacional Canaima – Canaima National Park
The rainfall was so much that we had to leave the river crossing for the following morning and camp just before the first of the two rivers.
I woke up early in the morning when one of the tepui was slowly coming out of the mist and the sun still had to rise
Photo taken at Parque Nacional Canaima – Canaima National Park
The first day of trek was easy except for the rain that didn’t stop chasing us. Behind the clouds the tepui started to appear slowly in all their majesty as we got closer
Photo taken at Parque Nacional Canaima – Canaima National Park
Once I met the team from @cruzdebolivar and the rest of the group that will hike with me in the following days, we all took an adventurous jeep ride uphill to Paraitepuy, the native Pemon village that also serves as gate to the Roraima trek
Photo taken at Kumarakapay
After getting a bus to Pacaraima, the last Brazilian town before the border with Venezuela, I got into a taxi and finally arrived in La Gran Sabana, in the small village of San Francisco de Yuruani, aka Kumarakapy in the native Pemon language.
Here I’ll meet my guide and start the trip to Mount Roraima
Photo taken at Boa Vista, Roraima
The trip back to South America from Namibia was endless. I got out of my last flight at 1:00am in Boa Vista, Brazil.
It was too late to get an hotel and too early to go to the bus station. So I just rested in the small airport for few hours before getting the first bus to Venezuela
Photo taken at Namibia
After visiting the Himba homestead near Opuwo I was supposed to move to another place to attend a traditional Himba funeral, but the ceremony was delayed.
So I decided to take some time to visit the desert before heading back to Windhoek and fly back to South America
Photo taken at Kunene Region
Himba women are famous for rubbing their bodies with “otjize”, a mixture of fat and ochre, believed to protect their skins against the harsh climate and dirt. They also mix it with clay to cover their hair in a beautification ritual
Photo taken at Kunene Region
At night the darkness covers the Himba homestead with only the faint fires and cheap telephones’ LEDs providing light
Photo taken at Kunene Region
In the Himba community men take care of hunting and political activities, sometimes leaving for extended periods of time.
When they are in the homestead, they often spend their time in the men’s house