Landscape Photos of Venezuela
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Landscape Photos of Venezuela
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Venezuela is a wonderful country with a diverse selection of pleasures - from its beautiful coastal beaches to the
Andes Mountains to the wildlife-rich area known as Los Llanos. Venezuela is also home to some fascinating flat-topped
mountains known as Tepuis. These very ancient mountains rise nearly straight up from the surrounding grasslands and
their flat-topped peaks are entirely isolated from their surroundings. Consequently, life has evolved completely
separately on the tops of these tepuis.
One of the tepuis is known as Roraima. It is now accessible by a moderately difficult multi-day hike.
Roraima was first explored by an expedition financed by the National Geographic Society just after the beginning of
the twentieth century.
Explorers discovered an assortment of plant and animal life there that could be found nowhere else on earth. It became the basis
for a book entitled "The Lost World" written in the early 1900's by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Merida Cable Car
The world's longest cable car ride starts in Merida, Venezuela.
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Los Nevados
Los Nevados is a beautiful village in the Andes Mountains of Venezuela. A typical excursion there typically starts
from Merida, where the tallest cable car in the world takes you high into the mountains. From there, a long,
beautiful hike will take you to this village.
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Andes Mountains
The beautiful Andes Mountains in springtime.
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Los Nevados
From Merida you can ride the worlds longest cable car into the Andes. From one of the stops, there is a trail that
goes to this beautiful little mountain village named Los Nevados.
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To Los Nevados
This is the trail to Los Nevados, Venezuela.
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Toward Los Nevados
This is the trail to Los Nevados.
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Los Nevados, Venezuela
Los Nevados is tucked away on a beautiful slope in the Andes Mountains of Venezuela.
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Main Street
This is the main street in the little village of Los Nevados, Venezuela.
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Toward Roraima
This is the trail to Roraima tepui.
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Roraima Trail
This is part of the trail to Roraima tepui.
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Climbing Roraima
The climb up Roraima offers spectacular views of the countryside.
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Looking Up At Roraima
The climb up Roraima looks imposing.
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Roraima
This is one of the scenes from the top of Roraima.
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Roraima Tepui
This is the top of Roraima tepui in Venezuela.
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Trek to Roraima
This is the starting point of the trail to Roraima tepui.
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Roraima Tepui
This is the top of Roraima tepui in Venezuela.
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Robert Stephens
TheWorldinLight Photographic Gallery
P.O. Box 893
Sterling Heights, MI 48311
Telephone 586-884-0040
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