Hello happy weekend, as soon as I read the initiative of this weekend came to my mind this extraordinary experience that I lived in the Canaima National Park, Venezuela.
We were in front of this imposing waterfall. Salto el sapo. Which is seen from the Canaima Lagoon, a wonderful place where I always want to return.
To get to the sapo, we must get on a curiora, a very thin but long boat, where you can sit 6 people or more, one behind the other. This boat is driven by an indigenous person of the area, who brings us closer to the waterfall. On one side of the waterfall, where we can go down and see it up close.
In photo 1 we can see that glorious fall of water, which comes with force. And the emotions begin to flow. The guide leads us through a path that takes us into the jungle, to then pass behind the fall, where there is a path between the rock that allows us to pass behind that magnitude...
photo 2, behind the waterfall. It was amazing to see and hear the force of the water falling. The guide helps us to take a delicious bath with that water, which hits hard, but it is delirious.... adrenaline is so much that there is no fear. Only joy and pleasure to live that experience.... I want to come back...
This looks like a pretty powerful waterfall. I wonder how many litres go over the edge every minute? I imagine it would sound pretty impressive standing there too, all that water moving all at the same time!
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Hola si, es impresionante, todo lo que se vive detras de esa gran masa de agua.
I'm sorry, I don't read Spanish.
That waterfall is small in relation to the one that comes out of the tepui, but it is impressive to be so close, and that large amount of water, has a unique sound.
I've never stood next to a waterfall so large, just smaller ones and they made a lot of noise themselves! I can only imagine what a big one like this would sound like.
If it is noisy, you have to shout or signal to communicate, behind it....
I can imagine. I'd like to see it for myself.
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ENGAGEtokens.Canaima is one of the most beautiful places in our country and I still don't know it 😭.
Excellent shot of this waterfall 😍
Yo quiero volver, es hermoso, me quedo ir a conocer el salto angel estuve cerca.....
Yo aún no he ido 😭, estuve en Amazonas unos días y fuimos a algunos Tepuys pero no fuimos para allá. Espero hacerlo en un futuro cercano 🙏🏻
Several images coming in from Venezuela, thanks! Media has all those images of people starving for water and energy when the country is mentioned. This weekends engagement topic is changing my perspective.
That sounds like such a peaceful day. Never heard it called a curiora before.. canoe, boat, lots of words but I learned a new one today.
Thank you!
Curiara is the name given by the indigenous people, in this case the community of the area, the Pemones. .......
Nice!! Thank you. Only thing cooler would be in the boat. Got anything exciting planned this weekend?
This weekend is a quarantine weekend here, everything is closed and so are the parks. But always, something different is created.
Ah, I'm sorry to hear that. For whatever reason Covid went right around the state of Tennessee, they've never so much as required facial coverings to enter establishments here.
And then just recently they removed all recommendations. Now they have concerts to maximum capacity again on the weekends, salons and restaurants have stayed open the whole time, guns never missed a beat.
Such a strange time how different the rules are depending which street corner you're standing on.
I think everybody in Arizona knows at least one person that died or spent big hospital time. Which is probably why our face covering was so successful.
There are still a couple of businesses that request masks here but just generally we are 100% open.
Two of my cousins are in Scottsdale, the one is married, her husbands family is also in the Scottsdale area. They're healthy and don't know of anyone sick either.
Having driven back n forth during this pandemic, I don't remember Arizona being bad. I wasn't asked to mask up or anything like that entering stations for a coffee. This is about 7 months ago. We stopped for breakfast, ithink but it mighta been New Mexico.
Southern states would tell us remove the mask. Ak, Al, Texas especially, "you wanna gas up here honey, that mask comes off right now mmkay!"
California was the worst, hands down no competition but NC was a close second about 3 months ago. A few weeks back they were up and running again. By the way, I don't know wtf the big deal about Asheville is.. been there twice and it's all these people talk about. It's nothing to write online about.
Waterfalls always gives one a feeling of how insignificant we are, gushing over the edge, drowning out everything forcing one to look and take it all in @jennynas lovely piece of natural world.
Very exciting to see it in the distance and then gradually approaching that magnitude of water, and another is to see it from above from the plane. Seeing the imposing river...
Learning of different regions one can imagine through the lens of another, beauty to enjoy from a distance.
Yes we are surrounded by wonderful nature in the world and sharing it here makes us a little closer.
Now that is a SERIOUS waterfall. Amazing.
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Amazing.. it's seems like there are a lot of beautiful places in south America and the Caribbean.. so many beautiful place to visit but safety is still a big issue
Great shot! So powerful!