Bill and Kaye and Deb and I went into the Amazonian jungle in Venezuela for a 3 week trip. Leaving our boat in Puerta La Cruiz, and heading by bus to Ciudad Bolivar and then on to Puerto Ayacucho, where the Rio Oronoco turns into rapids and the roads all end. From there we travelled by bongo up the Rio Negro to visit the Yanomami Indians.
Toucan tied up in Peurta La Cruiz Marina
Puerta La Cruize marketplace
Deb and Kaye preparing to board a bus in Ciudad Bolivar
Wrapping knapsacks in plastic before the river trip Puerto Ayacucho
Wrapping knapsacks in plastic before the river trip Puerto Ayacucho
Willie, Kaye, and Bill at the local market in Puerto Ayacucho
Deb, Bill and Kaye at the Orinoco Rapids
Native Indian depicted at the museum in Puerto Ayacucho
Willie asnd Bill clown around in a souviner shop
the ferry from Venezuela to Columbia on the Orinoco River, Puerto Ayacucho to Cazuarito
Willie, Bill and Kay pose for a photo at the cafe in Cazuarito, Columbia
Willie, Bill, Deb and Kay pose for a photo at the cafe in Cazuarito, Columbia
Will and Deb pose for a photo in front of the Police Building, Casuarito, Columbia
Will and Deb pose for a photo in front of the Police Building, Casuarito, Columbia
A parrot in the trees
Bill at the top of the water slide
Deb halfway down the water slide
Willie and Bill at the top in the waterfall
Billa nd Willie make the long slog back up the waterfall
Rio Orinoco, Amazonian Jungle
The Bongo was 60ft long - carved from a single tree
We continue along the Rio Negro
The Rio Negro with a Tepui in the background
Women washing clothes by the river
The guides cook up a meal at the first camp
Brahma bull
Buildings in the model village
Willie coming out of the hut
At the Model village there was a challenge of vollyball
The Model Village had a small hydro electric plant
The view of the river from our camp
Another view of the river from our camp
The cookhouse
Our sleeping quarters - hammocks and mosquito nets
Kaye examines the latrine (a hole in the ground with a tin roof)
Deb in her hammock with the mosquito net
Mealtime with Macuto - the 2 Brits, Bill, Kaye and Willie
Willie tries out a local tobacco cigarette
We stop for a break at a sandy beach in the jungle on the Rio Negro
A tepui in the background (large table mountain)
Willie and the guides skimming along the Rio Negro in the Bongo
Willie and 2 porters travel through the jungle
Willie drinking from a tree vine
Bill ranversing a tree bridge over a small river
Deb takes a break on another tree bridge
A little green frog (poisonous)
A tarantula spider
A stick insect
A tarantula on the ground
Deb examines a stick insect
We arrive at a village in the bongo
Willie at a Indigenous Indian village
Chicken coups in the village
Bill is in the hut where they make manioc
Deb handing out lollipops to the children, that we brought along.
She was very popular!
Our arrival at the Yanomami Indian village
The long hut where the shaman (medicine man) stays
The shaman offers to perform the yopo cerimony
One of our guides participates in the yopo cerimony
Macuto participates also
They ask for a white volunteer
Gees, that stings!
Our camp in the Jungle
The whole gang pose for a shot - Willie, Kaye, Bill, the 2 Brits, the 2 Germans, and the 4 Guides
Our sleeping arrangements - everything is hung
Another natural water slide next to our camp in the Amazonian jungle
Bill sliding down a natural water slide in the jungle (a Tepui in the background)
Deb sliding down a natural water slide in the jungle
Bill going for it!
Macuto dives into a natural bore hole
Macuto with a transula
Macuto showing how they carry in the jungle
Macuto shoing how they carry in the jungle - with the head strap only
The Tupui from our camp
Back at Peurta La Cruiz Marina we laid out all the souviners we brought back