By Seb Kennedy, Posted Jun 30, 2006
Sections: Guide to Venezuela Caracas Travel Guide Venezuela Basics The People Travel Tips Dating and Romance Places to Stay Work and Money Health and Safety Merida Maracaibo Roraima San Fernando
It feels like you are standing inside a giant rain generator http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicholaslaughlin/
This legendary tabletop mountain, set on the tri-border between Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana, forces warm Atlantic air to rise sharply and condense into rain. Standing in the surreal lunar landscape atop the mountain plateau, you can actually see the moist air rising and forming into droplets of rain; it feels like you are standing inside a giant rain generator.
Incredible plant life http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevemonty/
There are some fascinating and bizarre rock formations, most notably those found in The Valley of the Penises – no prizes for guessing what the rocks there look like. Once the toilet humour wears off, make your way over to the Crystal Valley, where the ground and stream bed is white with quartz – quite magnificent, and well worth the two days’ hike.
Matthias and I had driven from the coastal town of Puerto La Cruz, through the capital city of Caracas, across the sprawling Llanos and past the cattle-ranch towns of Acarigua, ...
There was a feel-good article in the Guardian the other day about laughter classes in Tehran.
God knows there’s lots to laugh about. Here’s a comic speech given by the ...
