Caracas Chronicles

Is this Photoshopped?

SABOTAJE!!!! SABOTAJE, HE DICHO! <>
(sabotage!!!! sabotage, I say!)

I went 3 years ago and the pemón guides told us that that actually happens: Is better to go in rainy season because otherwise you could do the trip and found a non-waterfall.

Kerepakasomething or other. It's not Angel Falls anymore, you intransigents!

I'm surprised some camping lodge up there doesn't have a live webcam pointed at it.

According to Howard Hillman:

"During the core months of the dry season (January to April), the falls can shrivel to a skinny practical nothing. What water goes over the mountaintop brink usually vaporizes into mist before reaching the ground."
http://www.hillmanwonders.com/angel_falls/angel_falls.htm

Also, a friend of mine was very frustrated when he paid to fly around the falls and found them dry. That was back in January 1996.

Can't you see the water falling in the picture??? very little but there is some...

When I first saw the pic, before reading anything or the comments, I thought it was a chiguire's prank, something like:

... ya ni agua en el S.Angel tenemos...!

some kind of political joke, and it worked for me.
( I was thinking about one with guri and a balckout, or a refinery and a long line of cars at a petro station, una cola en mercal..)

I do see a litle string of water still falling btw...

Back in dec. 1995 I camped at the bottom of the falls (last camp) for new years eve. El salto Angel was very small and dry too. Curiaras were turning around on the main camp of the rio carrao? full of german tourist disapointed they could not ride upstream on the churun.

We , being venezuelians, "negotiated" with "our" indians (from Kavak) to leave a curiara hidden with most of our equipment, and to share only one for the last part of the trip.

We would get out and push anytime we hit the river bottom. It made for a lot of fun, and another show of the venezuelian way!...

Cheers,
LuisF

I'll look for the pic and send it, it has the "window" form our tent overlooking the S.Angel, just as your window frame requirement for a "wiev from..." demand.

... almost dry and all, still amazing.

The falls routinely dry up for a few weeks at the end of the rainly season. That's when you often see a lot of activity from rock climbers and BASE jumpers scaling up and diving off (with a chute) the left side of the great granite wall.

Cono, that face is enormous, bigger even then El Capitan in Yosemite. I first met my wife there in Canaima, where Salto La Hatcha pours into a lago grande the color of Ron Aneo, and when El Sol goes down and the shadows stretch out, you go back to the beginning of time.

Magnifico, pues.

Juancho

Isn't it?