This tiny Indian settlement on the Southern end of Auyantepui is an overlooked paradise. Very few of the thousands tourists who flock to Canaima National Park each year think to spend the extra few hundred dollars to organize a day-trip (or overnight trip) to Kavak. They're missing out big time. First, because the actual flight from Canaima Camp, over Auyantepui... more

Before 1956, when Rudolf Truffino (a.k.a. "Jungle Rudy") had the crazy idea to put a tourist lodge in the middle of this unbroken wilderness, Canaima was a place only the hardest of hard-core explorers could dream of visiting. Fifty-three years later, the tourist camp he built - Ucaima - is still run by his family, and has earned its billing... more