Mount Roraima | Most Wonderful Nature

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South America’s answer to Uluru, this impressive sandstone plateau is surrounded on all sides by 400-meter cliffs, creating an isolated and unique ecosystem. If you want to follow in David Attenborough’s footsteps (he’s filmed several times here), organize a trek from the Venezuelan side. Hiking up Mount Roraima is best done from Venezuela. The Paratepui Route is the easiest for non-technical climbers and trips can be arranged from San Francisco de Yurani,More info:cnn

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#9 Discovering a lost world on Mount Roraima ,More info:roughguides

The customs procedures take less time than I anticipate as I cross onto Venezuelan soil from Brazil and drive towards what is undoubtedly one of the world’s most incredible natural sights. My shared taxi from Roraima is also, ironically, cheaper than taking a bus – in Venezuela petrol is so cheap (at about US$1 for a full tank, it costs less than water) that scores of Brazilian taxis are eager to cross the border to stock up on discount fuel. We bump our way along a potholed road and soon reach the crumbling border town of Santa Elena de Uairén, where the driver skids to a halt outside my guesthouse, causing a cloud of dust to rise in the air.

I am here to explore the Canaima National Park, home to some awe-inspiring table top mountains that are among the oldest geological formations in the world, dating back over 1.6 billion years. These structures are also known as tepuis, which in Native American Pemón language means “house of the Gods”. The indigenous Pemón people honour the tepuis, believing them to be inhabited by deities.

About 200 million years ago, at the time of the supercontinent Gondwanaland when South America and West Africa were joined, the summits of the tepuis were connected. When the continents eventually drifted apart disruptions broke up a gargantuan massif, forming individual tepuis that over time grew smaller, some crumbling away. It is the remnants of these sandstone plateaus that can be seen today in the Canaima National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that occupies over 30,000 square kilometres and is home to over half of the area’s tepuis.

#8 Mount Roraima,Mountain in Brazil, South America,More info:thousandwonders

Mount Roraima, at 2,800 metres, is the tallest tepuy (“Table Mountain” in Spanish) bordering Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil. The name came from the Pemon word ‘Roroi-ma’, meaning “big blue green”. Trekking up its Venezuela side, the Gran Sabana takes you to the summit.

In 1884 Sir Everardim Thurn became the first person recorded to climb Roraima.

Roraima is also the inspiration behind the 1912 novel, The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The idea for the novel is plausible as these mountains are considered by scientists as “time islands” due to various plants and animals having thrived for thousands of years.

#7 Mount Roraima ,More info:planet

#6 Trek to Mount Roraima Adventure,More info:redfernadventures

Mount Roraima is called South America’s “lost world”. A gigantic tableland encircled on all sides by vertical cliffs up to 700 m tall. Towering over the surrounding savannahs and rainforest like an immense fortress above the clouds, Roraima’s summit has been isolated for millions of years and is home to bizarre landscapes of towering stone pinnacles, a valley of shimmering quartz crystals, and unique animals and plants found anywhere on earth. The discovery of Roraima inspired Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel The Lost World.

Trekking up Mount Roraima is one of South America’s greatest experiences! This adventure offers you the opportunity to see Mount Roraima up close and personal, as the plateaus’ gigantic cliffs rise on the horizon, and tower above you as you trek closer. We climb via a broken ledge up the cliffsides, which is actually easy to climb and safe. As this secret staircase takes us through the clouds, we watch the vegetation change from lowland savannah to misty, lush cloudforest, until finally we reach the summit of the lost world.

Please note: we organise trekking trips up Mount Roraima as bespoke private expeditions to fit your dates and suit your interests. Please email us for details.

#5 Mount Roraima, Venezuela (also Guyana and Brazil),More info:imgur

None of these pictures are mine because I suck…but I was here in 1998 and had a disposable camera and none of the pictures came out, and I remembered it because I’m at a pub in Toronto and someone just ordered a “Roraima” which is a shot that I don’t know, but it smelled nice. And I smell nice. You might, too.