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Mountain in Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela
Photo: R.M. Goris, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Roraima is the highest tepuy (Spanish for table mountain) on the triple border of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana. It is around 2,800 m tall. Its name is derived from 'Roroi-ma,' which in Pemon means 'big blue-green.' The only way visitors can climb to the top is from the Gran Sabana side, in Venezuela.
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a small concrete cairn marks the point at which the Brazilian, Venezuelan, and Guyanese borders meet. The point is long three-hour hike from the entry point to the summit. The valley of the crystals is close by, an area of exposed quartz veins.
As the name suggests, the valley with a bed of (quartz) crystals. No crystals can be taken, under hefty penalty and/or jailtime.
a large, 10-m diameter sink hole that extends into a small underground cave that has been hollowed out of Roraima's black rock by thousands of years of constant rain.
Colorful (cold) water pools.
A few giant cracks in the rock/plateau.
first camp on the banks of the Ték River, located approximately 3 hours from Paraitepuy.
second camp on the banks of the Kukenan River, it is where the first night is usually spent.
third camp before starting the ascent, it is where people generally rest and prepare to go up the "ramp" of Roraima.
There are very few flights to Santa Elena de Uairén. Rutaca Airlines is the only airline that services the town with any regularity from Ciudad Bolívar and Puerto Ordaz.
Read in the guideThere are a lot of Europeans on the trail — mostly Germans, French and English tourists — and some Venezuelans with all companies.
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