Venezuela
Thirteen days with a night at Paraitepuy, five nights on the summit and a direct return to Boa Vista.
Venezuela Tour Overview
Thirteen days from Boa Vista to the summit of Roraima, with a night among the Pemon at Paraitepuy and five nights on top of the tepui
Thirteen days and more than 100 kilometres on foot, from Boa Vista in Brazil across the border into Venezuela and over the Gran Sabana to the only non-technical route up Mount Roraima. A night in the Pemon community at Paraitepuy, then eight nights under canvas, five of them on the summit plateau, which is enough time to reach Gladys Lake in the far north and to give the Triple Point, El Foso and Maverick their own days. No climbing and no altitude acclimatisation, but three long days in a row on top and a thousand-metre ascent. Privately guided, with Pemon porters from the village where the trail begins. A Premium version adds a night by a waterfall in the Gran Sabana on the way home.
Mount Roraima 13-Day Lost World 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.
Meals -
A free morning in Boa Vista, then the expedition briefing at 3:30pm: the rules, the plan, the kit check and the last of the shopping. This is where you meet the team and where anything missing gets found. The evening is free.
Meals B
Leave at 7am for the road to the Venezuelan border and the customs formalities at Santa Elena de Uairen, then on across the Gran Sabana to Paraitepuy, the Pemon village at 1,300 metres at the foot of Roraima. The mountain fills the view for the last part of the drive.
The night is in the community's simple lodges, with dinner outside under the stars and the tepui standing over the village.
Meals D
After registering with the national park, and once the porters have taken the equipment, it is 15 km on foot across open savanna, four to five hours, dropping to the first camp by the Tek or Kukenan river at around 1,100 metres.
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.
Meals B / L / D
At dawn Roraima fills the view ahead. After breakfast you walk 8 km over around five hours, crossing the Tek and Kukenan rivers, with lunch on the trail.
The afternoon climbs to base camp at the foot of the wall, at roughly 1,850 metres, camped directly beneath the route to the summit. From here the scale of the mountain is difficult to take in.
Meals B / L / D
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 called Paso de las Lagrimas, which falls directly across the path.
Four to five hours of climbing in all puts you on top, past the three stone blocks the Pemon call Makunaima, the guardians of the mountain. 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.
Meals B / L / D
The first full day on the plateau, in landscape that has no equivalent anywhere else. The Valley of Crystals is a field of quartz where the ground glitters underfoot, and taking any of it is strictly prohibited. Then the Triple Point, the surveyed marker where Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana meet, where you can stand in three countries at once.
The camp moves north with you to Coati, a natural shelter between two giant rocks with an open side facing the sky. Around 15 km and eight hours of walking over rock, with fog frequent and rain possible.
Meals B / L / D
The longest day on the summit, and the one the shorter expedition does not have time for. The walk goes deep into the northern plateau to Gladys Lake, one of the least visited parts of the tepui, and one that local tradition treats as a threshold to another world.
It is around 24 km and eight hours over broken rock, through a landscape that has been cut off from the world below for long enough to grow its own plants and animals. Few trekkers ever see this part of Roraima. The night is back at Coati.
Meals B / L / D
Back south across the plateau with a stop at El Foso, a deep sinkhole with a pool at the bottom and a waterfall falling into it, and a good place to stop for an hour.
By late afternoon you reach the camp near the top of the ramp, where the summit was first gained. Around 15 km and eight hours, with the support team moving camp during the day.
Meals B / L / D
An easier day of around 8 km and six hours. Maverick is the highest point of Roraima at 2,810 metres, looking out over the whole Gran Sabana and the trail you walked to get here.
The natural jacuzzis are pools worn into the quartz, cold and clear. La Ventana is a notch in the cliff edge that frames Kukenan, the neighbouring tepui, its waterfalls and the valley between the two. Your last night on top of the tepui.
Meals B / L / D
The last morning on the tepui, and then the descent. It is a long day of 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 on the Tek or the Kukenan at around 1,100 metres, where the temperature climbs back to about 25 degrees and you can wash properly for the first time in six days. Wild orchids grow along the way.
Meals B / L / D
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.
Meals B
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Per Person
$3,000
Deposit to book $900
Your deposit is 30% of your final trip price, which may differ from the price shown.
| Group Size | Per Person |
|---|---|
| 2 | $9,000 |
| 3 | $6,000 |
| 4 | $4,500 |
| 5 | $3,600 |
| 6 | $3,000 |
| Standard | Premium | |
|---|---|---|
| From | $3,000 | $3,875 |
| What it is | Thirteen days with a night at Paraitepuy, five nights on the summit and a direct return to Boa Vista. | The same trek with a Boa Vista city tour, the Paraitepuy children's choir, a night at Kama-Meru Lodge and a final day among the waterfalls of the Gran Sabana. |
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We run three versions of this trek. Here is how they differ.
The route up and down is identical. The difference is time on top: this trip spends five nights on the summit plateau instead of three, which adds a full day to Gladys Lake in the remote north and lets the Triple Point, El Foso and Maverick each have proper time. It also sleeps a night with the Pemon community at Paraitepuy on the way in rather than in the border town.
Three things. A guided city tour of Boa Vista on the briefing day, the village children's choir at Paraitepuy, and, instead of driving straight back at the end, two days in the Gran Sabana: a swim at La Piscina, a night at Kama-Meru Lodge beside its waterfall, and the waterfalls and lookouts of the savanna on the way to the border. Same trek, same summit days.
If you want the summit rather than just a summit, yes. Most visitors to Roraima see the southern half of the plateau and turn round. The additional days take you into the part that very few people reach, at a slower pace, with more chance of the mist lifting at the right moment. The trade-off is more nights on wet rock and three long walking days in a row.
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 walking route approaches from the Venezuelan side.
A passport, and a Venezuelan visa if your nationality requires one. The answer differs sharply by passport, so we confirm it for yours before anything is booked.
Domestic flights connect through Manaus and Brasilia. International and domestic flights are not included, so we build the routing with you.
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 tiring trek: more than 100 kilometres over eight walking days, including three consecutive days of around eight hours on top and one day of 24 km. The operator's own description is fair: possible for almost anyone, and a real physical strain.
You carry what you want to carry. Camping equipment, food and cooking gear go with 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 pays the Pemon community at Paraitepuy directly.
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 Boa Vista closer to 30. Pack for all three, and pack more dry layers than you think for five nights on top.
In tents, two of the five nights inside Coati, a natural rock shelter in the north of the plateau. 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. 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.
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. Roraima is the highest of the Pakaraima range's tepuis and the only one with a walking route to the top.
Yes. Arthur Conan Doyle used Roraima as the model for his 1912 novel after reading accounts of the first ascent. Given what has evolved up there, the idea of a plateau cut off from the world below is less fanciful than it sounds.
The indigenous people of the Gran Sabana, whose land the route crosses and whose village at Paraitepuy is where the trek begins. Makunaima, whose name the three stone guardians at the top of the ramp carry, is a figure from Pemon tradition.
How the pricing works.
The price from is per person for joining a scheduled 2027 departure on the standard expedition. Departures over the New Year season cost more, and the Premium version is priced separately.
Yes, with the same team and the same itinerary. Private expeditions are priced for a minimum of six people, so a party of fewer than six shares the six-person total between them. The rates by group size are shown on this page.
Scheduled departures are capped at 16 people, and at 8 over New Year, Carnival and Easter week.
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