Venezuela
Ten days from the Brazilian lowlands to the summit of the highest tepui, with three nights camped on top of a plateau where Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana meet
Venezuela Tour Overview
Ten days from the Brazilian lowlands to the summit of the highest tepui, with three nights camped on top of a plateau where Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana meet
Ten days and around 90 kilometres on foot, starting in Boa Vista in Brazil, crossing into Venezuela at Santa Elena de Uairen, and walking across the Gran Sabana to the only non-technical route up Mount Roraima. Six days of trekking, six nights under canvas, and three of those on the summit plateau at 2,810 metres among carnivorous plants and species that exist nowhere else. No climbing and no altitude acclimatisation, but two eight-hour days and a thousand-metre ascent. Privately guided, with Pemon porters from the village where the trail begins.
Mount Roraima 10-Day Expedition
You land at Boa Vista, capital of Roraima state and the practical gateway to the mountain from the Brazilian side. You are met at the airport and transferred to the hotel.
Boa Vista sits at 86 metres in hot lowland savanna, around 28 to 34 degrees depending on the season. Nothing is asked of you today beyond arriving.
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The team meets at 8:30 for the expedition briefing: the rules, the plan, the kit check and the last of the shopping. This is where you meet the other travellers and where anything missing gets found.
The road transfer leaves at 1pm and crosses into Venezuela at Santa Elena de Uairen, with customs formalities at the border. The drive is around 220 km and you gain 800 metres, ending at 900 metres in a cooler and greener place than the one you left. The evening is free.
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Leave Santa Elena around 8am for the two to three hour jeep run to Paraitepuy, the Pemon village at 1,300 metres where you register with the national park and where the porters take the equipment.
From there it is 15 km on foot across open savanna, four to five hours, dropping to the first camp at 1,100 metres by a river. The tepui is ahead of you the whole way and it does not appear to get any closer, which is the first thing this mountain teaches you about scale. Camp under open sky.
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Roraima is there at dawn, a kilometre of vertical sandstone with its top in cloud. After breakfast you walk 8 km over around five hours, crossing the Tek and Kukenan rivers.
Lunch is on the trail. The afternoon climbs to base camp at the foot of the wall, at roughly 1,850 metres. From here the scale of the thing is difficult to take in. The temperature drops to about 20 degrees and you are camped directly beneath the only non-technical route to the summit.
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The hardest day and the best one. The route climbs a natural ramp on the southern face, the only way up Roraima that does not need ropes, through cloud forest hung with bromeliads and orchids. Ninety minutes of steep ground brings you to the wall itself, past boulders the size of buildings and under the waterfall the guides call Paso das Lagrimas, which falls directly across the path and soaks everybody.
Four to five hours of climbing puts you on top, at 2,810 metres, past the three stone blocks the Pemon call Makunaima. The summit is a black rock plateau of eroded sandstone with standing pools, carnivorous plants and species found nowhere else on earth. Temperatures on top run around 10 degrees by day and 5 at night, and the mist rarely lifts for long.
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A full day on the plateau in landscape that has no equivalent anywhere. The Valley of Crystals is a field of quartz where the ground glitters underfoot, and taking any of it is prohibited.
The Triple Point is a surveyed marker where Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana meet, and you can stand in three countries at once. El Foso is a sinkhole pool with a waterfall falling into it. Camp is moved during the day to one of the rock shelters the guides call hotels, which are overhangs with flat floors and no walls.
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The longest day on top. Maverick is the highest point of the massif, looking out over the whole Gran Sabana and the line you walked to get here.
The natural jacuzzis are pools worn into the quartz, cold and clear, and bathing in them is the reason this itinerary carries the name it does. La Ventana is a notch in the cliff edge that frames Kukenan, the neighbouring tepui, its waterfalls and the valley running between the two. This is the day people remember.
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The last morning on the tepui, and then the descent. It is a long day, six to eight hours, losing around a thousand metres back down the ramp and through the cloud forest.
The trail returns across the savanna to a river camp at 1,100 metres on the Tek or the Kukenan, where the temperature climbs back to around 25 degrees and you can wash properly for the first time in four days. Wild orchids grow along the way.
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Fifteen kilometres back to Paraitepuy over around four hours, where lunch is taken with the community and where the porters are paid and thanked.
From there it is the jeep and the road back across the border to Boa Vista. The heat returns as you descend. Last night at the hotel.
Meals B / L
Transfer to Boa Vista airport for your onward flight. This is the end of our services.
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Per Person
$2,775
Deposit to book $833
Your deposit is 30% of your final trip price, which may differ from the price shown.
| Group Size | Per Person |
|---|---|
| 2 | $8,325 |
| 3 | $5,550 |
| 4 | $4,160 |
| 5 | $3,330 |
| 6 | $2,775 |
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This trip starts in Brazil and crosses into Venezuela. Here is how that works.
All three, which is the point. You fly into Boa Vista in Brazil, cross into Venezuela at Santa Elena de Uairen, and walk to a summit where Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana meet. The mountain itself is shared between them and the walking route approaches from the Venezuelan side.
A passport, and a Venezuelan visa if your nationality requires one. This is the question to raise with us first, because the answer differs sharply by passport and the current position for American travellers needs checking case by case. We confirm it for your specific passport before anything is booked.
Domestic flights connect through Manaus and Brasilia. International flights are not included and neither are domestic ones, so we build the routing with you rather than assuming it.
It is privately guided. Tell us your party size and we will confirm what that means for the price and the departure.
What the walking is actually like, which is harder than the word moderate suggests.
There is no climbing and no technical ground, and the whole route stays below 3,000 metres so no acclimatisation is needed. It is still a long and genuinely tiring trek: around 90 kilometres over six walking days, with two days of roughly eight hours and one steep ascent of a thousand metres. The operator's own words are worth repeating: this is possible for almost anyone, and it causes real physical stress.
You carry what you want to carry. Camping equipment, food and cooking gear are carried by the support team. A personal porter can take up to 15 kg of your own kit for an additional fee, which we recommend and which puts money directly into the Pemon community at Paraitepuy.
Wet. The plateau sits in near-constant mist with rain possible on any day, around 10 degrees by day and 5 at night. The savanna below is 25 degrees and the lowlands closer to 30. You need to pack for all three.
In tents pitched under rock overhangs the guides call hotels, which are natural shelters with flat floors. Three nights on top, on rock, in mist. It is not comfortable and it is the best part of the trip.
Read this section carefully. Several things people assume are included are not.
All meals on the trek, prepared by the support team. In Boa Vista the hotel includes breakfast. In Santa Elena the accommodation is room only, so dinner there is at your own arrangement. Dietary requirements are catered for if you tell us on the booking form.
No, and it is not optional in practice. Your policy must cover trekking, remote areas with no road access and medical evacuation. Choose your own insurer, but send us the wording before you travel.
A sleeping bag, a sleeping pad, a mattress pad and a hiking backpack can all be added to the booking, as can a private tent for the whole expedition and single rooms in Boa Vista and Santa Elena. Ask when you book rather than on arrival.
Flights, insurance, a personal porter if you want one, tips, dinner in Santa Elena, and a Venezuelan visa if your passport needs one.
What Roraima is and why it looks like nothing else.
A table mountain of Precambrian sandstone, among the oldest exposed rock on earth, standing above the surrounding forest and savanna like an island. The Guiana Shield holds more than a hundred of them. Roraima is the highest of the range and the only one with a walking route to the top.
Species that have been isolated on the summit long enough to become their own. Carnivorous plants including sundews and pitcher plants, black frogs found nowhere else, orchids, and vegetation growing straight out of bare rock. Nothing on the plateau should be collected, moved or taken, including quartz from the Valley of Crystals.
Yes. Arthur Conan Doyle used Roraima as the model for his 1912 novel after reading the accounts of the first ascent. The idea of a plateau cut off from the world below is less fanciful than it sounds, given what has evolved up there.
The indigenous people of the Gran Sabana, whose land the route crosses and whose village at Paraitepuy is where the trek begins. National park registration, portering and the lunch on the way out are all arranged through the community, and the porter fee goes to them directly.
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