Venezuela & Angel Falls Family Tour

Day 1. Caracas
Arrival and transfer to your hotel the Pestana Caracas Premium City & Conference
Hotel (Category: 4****)
Overnight, family suite, including breakfast
Location: In the central area of Santa Eduvigis, near the beautiful park Parque del Este. Features: 195 modern rooms with air conditioning, swimming pool,spa, gym, and restaurants. Great views over the city and Avila mountain. This is the quietest and safest district of Caracas.

Day 2. Caracas - Canaima (All meals)

After breakfast, transfer to the airport for your flight to Canaima (Thursday and Sundays only)
Between the rainforest of the Amazon Basin and the watershed of the Orinoco River, is a rugged wall of remote mountains and deep, heavily forested canyons. This is Canaima National Park. Many of the mountains have precipitous rock walls that rise thousands of meters where they end in an almost perfectly flat top. These formations are known by their Indian name: Tepuis. Originally the tops of the tepuis were joined together in a vast continuous plateau that stretched over a large part of northern South America from the Colombian Mountains into Guyana. Over the time erosion carved steep-walled valleys and crevices into the plateau leaving fragments of the plateau completely isolated. From one of these Tepuis plummets the world's highest waterfall: Angel Falls (979 meters).The fall is more than twice as high as the Empire State Building and three times higher than the Eiffel Tower.

Arrival and transfer to your lodge for three night's accommodation at the Ara Meru Lodge.

Includes:

• Welcome cocktail
• Lodging in a Suite
• Breakfast, lunch, snacks or snacks on excursions and dinners
• All non-alcoholic beverages
• Excursion Canaima Lagoon + Sapo / Hacha /Golondrina Falls
• Bicycle ride (1 hr.)
• Satellite WIFI in all facilities, including rooms
• Enjoy facilities: pool day with jacuzzi, gym, sauna
• Pool towels
• Facilities suitable for people with reduced mobility
• Musical presentation at the Welcome Dinner
• Satellite TV in all rooms

After lunch, we board our dugout canoes at Canaima beach, and cross Canaima lagoon with impressive views of its seven waterfalls. A short walk through savannah, and we start walking behind the impressive water curtain of Sapo falls. It is a truly exhilarating experience: a cliff to the right, the roaring falls to the left, and water spray everywhere. Once on the other side of the curtain, we walk to the top of the falls for a wonderful view of the Tepuy landscape. Return to Canaima beach.

Day 3. Angel Falls tour (All meals)
In the morning we board our motorized dugout canoes or "curiaras" in the Pemón Indian language. We travel up the Carrao river, and cross Mayupa lagoon and the Arautaima rapids, always surrounded by the spectacular landscape of Canaima National Park. We enter Churún river, winding its way through the spectacular Devil's Canyon. One more turn, and we see the highest waterfall on earth! We leave our canoes, and walk for an hour through virgin rainforest, until arriving at a rocky ledge.
We suddenly stand before the magnificence of the Angel Falls, a few hundred meters away, becoming drenched by the frenzy of spray. A truly unforgettable and awesome sight! We can take a refreshing bath in the lagoon at the base of the fall. Lunch. In the afternoon return to our hammock camp at the base of Angel Falls. Dinner.

Day 4. Return to Canaima and optional Over flight of the Angel Falls (All meals)
After breakfast, we wind our way back to Canaima, enjoying the beautiful views. A great excursion to admire the magnificence of Angel Falls. Accommodation in hammocks and long canoe rides. Not too strenuous, but adventurous spirit needed.

*Today you will have an opportunity for an optional Over flight tour of the Angel Falls by Helicopter (min. 4 pax; subject to weather conditions, private tour).
Departure from Canaima airstrip, and flight over the spectacular landscape of Canaima National Park. After approximately 20 minutes we enter the impressive Devil's Canyon, and soon we see the highest waterfall on earth: Angel Falls. It was 1935, when a stranger offered Jimmy Angel $5000 to fly him to an uncharted mountaintop in southern Venezuela, and the Missouri-born bush pilot, down on his luck, jumped at the chance. He flew his mysterious passenger to this mountaintop, and after a bumpy landing in his Flamingo monoplane, pilot and passenger set up camp by a stream. In three days, they found 75 pounds of gold. Returning to Caracas, Mr. Angel lost contact with his passenger. Trying to return, but without his treasure guide, he fruitlessly scoured the vast wilderness for the golden stream. One day he crash landed on top of a 2400 meter high mountain, the Auyan-tepuy. Two weeks later the exhausted adventurer emerged on foot, bearing with him knowledge of a secret the local Pemón Indians had guarded for centuries: Churún Merú, the world ´s highest waterfall.

Day 5. Canaima - Caracas (Breakfast)
After breakfast, transfer to the airport for the flight back in Caracas (Thursday and Sundays only).
Arrival and transfer to your hotel the Pestana Caracas Premium City & Conference
Hotel (Category: 4****) - Overnight, executive,room, including breakfast.

Day 6. Caracas (Breakfast & lunch)
After breakfast, we will discover Caracas' colonial roots, proudly displayed in its historic center. We will visit the Birthplace of Simón Bolívar "El Libertador", with its typically discreet and austere colonial architecture; the Concejo Municipal, where the Act of Venezuelan Independence was signed; La Casa Amarilla, the former Royal Prison and now the Foreign Office; El Capitolio, where two notable historical records can be found: the Act of Independence and the epic mural by Tovar y Tovar representing the battle of Carabobo; Plaza Bolívar, where the history of Caracas began. We continue to the Panteón Nacional, the most sacred building in the city. It is the last resting place for eminent Venezuelans. The vault of the pantheon is covered by paintings depicting scenes from Bolívar's life, all done by the important Venezuelan historical painter Tito Salas in the 1930s. After the tour, transfer to the airport for your return flight home.

Please note the prices of domestic flight tickets are subject to change depending on the class and spaces available, they are confirmed at time of booking.
Not included in the total price is the admission fee to the Canaima / Kavac National Park (US$ 40 and US$ 20 respectively) to be paid in cash in US$ in person.

Day 1. Caracas
Day 2. Caracas - Canaima (All meals)
Day 3. Angel Falls tour (All meals)
Day 4. Return to Canaima and optional Over flight of the Angel Falls (All meals)
Day 5. Canaima - Caracas (Breakfast)
Day 6. Caracas (Breakfast & lunch)

• Accommodation at a selection of hotels and the Canaima Lodge
• Tours as indicated
• Flights: Caracas - Canaima - Caracas
• All meals as indicated
• Specialist guides
• Ground transportation in Venezuela

• International air tickets to South America
• Meals not specified on the itinerary
• *Optional helicopter over flight of the Angel Falls in private service only US$4150
• Admission fee to the Canaima / Kavac National Park (US$ 40 and US$ 20 respectively) to be paid in cash in US$ in person
• Cost for Visas if applicable
• Insurance, tips etc