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