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Phot.Venezuela.Angel.Falls.01.006.1989.jpg
“…once upon a time” in 1991,
Venezuela, Camaima, Salto Angel, Angel Falls, with a height of almost 1000 mtr the world highest waterfall, with an uninterrupted drop of 807 mtr & about 16 times the height of Niagara Falls.
The village of Canaima, about 50 km northwest, is the major gateway to the falls.
… it takes about 1 hour 30 minutes by airplane from Caracas to the Canaima National Park,
...then roughly 4 hours with a canoe on the Carrao River, continuing on the Churun River to a camp on the border of the river,
...from here 1 hour plus-plus working through the lush wilderness & you reach a viewing plateau to overlook the nearby feet of the Angel Falls, you can see the Falls in all its glory & take a refreshing dip in your lap
...& of course the same time back, some visitors who came by canoe choose to stay overnight in hammocks at one of the camps near the base of the falls, however, the trip is a lifelong lasting experience.
The Angel Falls or Kerepakupai merú, which means "waterfall of the deepest place" in Pemon language, or Parakupa-vena, which means "the fall from the highest point" in Spanish it’s Salto Ángel, are located in the Guayana highlands. It plunges off the edge of the tepuy "Auyantepui", one of the largest of the tepuis, the table-top mountains & freefalls of 979 mtr, than flows to the river -----,
The falls are named after Jimmy Angel, an adventurous bush pilot from Missouri J. Angel first saw the falls in 1933 with McCracken while searching for a legendary Gold Ore.
He returned again in 1937 with his wife, Gustavo Henry & Henry's gardener, they landed on top of the "Tepuy". Jimmy's Flamingo monoplane settled down with a crash into the marshy ground on top of the “Auyantepuy” & the airplane remained there for 33 years before being lifted out by a helicopter. Jimmy Angel & his companions managed to descend the tepuy & made their way back to civilization in 11 days.
Some historians state that the first European to visit the waterfall was Fernando de Berrío, a Spanish explorer & governor from the 16th & 17th centuries. Later on, they were indeed spotted in 1912 by the Venezuelan explorer Ernesto Sánchez La Cruz, but he did not publicize his discovery.
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Photo taken with my Nikon F4 in 1991
scanned from a Kodak film negative in March 2016
with a Reflecta ProScan 7200
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👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
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Phot.Venezuela.Angel.Falls.01.006.1989.jpg
“…once upon a time” in 1991,
Venezuela, Camaima, Salto Angel, Angel Falls, with a height of almost 1000 mtr the world highest waterfall, with an uninterrupted drop of 807 mtr & about 16 times the height of Niagara Falls.
The village of Canaima, about 50 km northwest, is the major gateway to the falls.
… it takes about 1 hour 30 minutes by airplane from Caracas to the Canaima National Park,
...then roughly 4 hours with a canoe on the Carrao River, continuing on the Churun River to a camp on the border of the river,
...from here 1 hour plus-plus working through the lush wilderness & you reach a viewing plateau to overlook the nearby feet of the Angel Falls, you can see the Falls in all its glory & take a refreshing dip in your lap
...& of course the same time back, some visitors who came by canoe choose to stay overnight in hammocks at one of the camps near the base of the falls, however, the trip is a lifelong lasting experience.
The Angel Falls or Kerepakupai merú, which means "waterfall of the deepest place" in Pemon language, or Parakupa-vena, which means "the fall from the highest point" in Spanish it’s Salto Ángel, are located in the Guayana highlands. It plunges off the edge of the tepuy "Auyantepui", one of the largest of the tepuis, the table-top mountains & freefalls of 979 mtr, than flows to the river -----,
The falls are named after Jimmy Angel, an adventurous bush pilot from Missouri J. Angel first saw the falls in 1933 with McCracken while searching for a legendary Gold Ore.
He returned again in 1937 with his wife, Gustavo Henry & Henry's gardener, they landed on top of the "Tepuy". Jimmy's Flamingo monoplane settled down with a crash into the marshy ground on top of the “Auyantepuy” & the airplane remained there for 33 years before being lifted out by a helicopter. Jimmy Angel & his companions managed to descend the tepuy & made their way back to civilization in 11 days.
Some historians state that the first European to visit the waterfall was Fernando de Berrío, a Spanish explorer & governor from the 16th & 17th centuries. Later on, they were indeed spotted in 1912 by the Venezuelan explorer Ernesto Sánchez La Cruz, but he did not publicize his discovery.
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Photo taken with my Nikon F4 in 1991
scanned from a Kodak film negative in March 2016
with a Reflecta ProScan 7200
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👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
17 million visits in my photostream with countless motivating comments