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Title: Orinoco Delta Tours

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Venezuela, a coutry full of unique beauty and great variety which reaches from snowcovered Andeanpeaks through Savanna – countrysides, natural rain forests, dry jungles, foggy woods and Galeriewoods to the Orinoco river with its delta as big as Switzerland. Native people partially still living very original.

However, the most outstanding area is the Grand Savanna with its tepuis (Table Mountains). This area is one of the oldest on earth (from a geological view) formed by one thousand and eighthundred years of erosion. There are ca. one hundred Tepuis scattered all across the southeast of Venezuela. Hundreds of waterfalls are
characteristic for this countryside.
The most famous one is the Angel – Fall which plunges from a height of one thousand meters from the Auyan – Tepui into the green depth. But also the Orinoco delta which was formed by the sediments and semens, that the Orinoco brought along.
Living for ca. sixteen thousand years in the delta, the original population of the Waraos have preserved an originality similar to the times of Humboldt. In this jungle area you
can experience howler monkeys, sweetwater dolfins, shimmring Butterflies, iguanas, capibaras, otters, jaguars, ibisses, parrots and many other animal species.
This variety makes out of Venezuela a country which is worth visiting again and again
- in which you can fall in love with like it happened to me.

Day 1:
Transportation by car or van from Maturin to Boca de Urucoa, from there to the main camp El Guamal by boat. Lunch, relaxing, swimming, a ride in the afternoon: fishing for piranhas, watching wildlife. After sunset back to the camp.
In the evening jungle bar. Overnight stay in small, luxurious huts in beds.
Day 2:
Breakfast, after that continuing of our journey to the outer camp by boat. On the way watching wildlife. Lunch in the outer camp. In the afternoon a trip to visit the Warao Indians. On the way back we go fishing (Tarbun). Dinner. Night trip by canoe (watching caimans), overnight stay in hammocks.
Day 3:
Breakfast, after that a ride by canoe and a walk in the jungle. Lunch.On the way back to the maincamp visit of an Indian camp, a walk in the mangroves. Dinner at the maincamp, overnight stay in luxurious huts in beds.
Day 4:
Breakfast, after that a ride by canoe in a small small canal watching wildlife and piranhafishing. Lunch,relaxing swimming and leaving by boat to Boca de Urucoa around 2 pm.

We also provide a pick up service or assistance at the international
airport from Caracas or Porlamar, Margarita Island.

Price: 400 US$
price inclusive breakfast, lunch and dinner, all non – alcoholical drinks (except you have to pay your drinks at the bar in the camp) Transport, hammocks and logboats, multilingual guides

Bring with you:
Valid passport and visa card
Travel sickness insurance
Anti-Moscito-Spray (Autan)
Sunblocker
Possibly photo equipment
Short clothes (shorts, t-shirts)
One set of long clothes (long trousers, long-sleeved shirt)
Swimming clothes
Little bag (for clothes)
Open-mindedness towards the native people and the fellow travellers is
necessary.We offer time, multilingual guidance, transportation, flights, hammocks, all
meals served with alcohol-free drinks and alcohol-free drinks on the trips.