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Featuring the very well experienced
Carlos Luis
Romero as your guide. |
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Sir Conan Doyle wrote the book about the Lost World in 1898. |
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Enjoy this adventure trip discovering the Auyantepuis and Mount Roraima. |
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INTRODUCTION:
The mysterious, mist-shrouded Tepuys, or tabletop
mountains, that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1912,
to write about the Lost World, are some of the oldest
and most impressive rock formations on earth.
Estimated to be 1.8 billion years old, the near
vertical, rose-colored cliffs of these mesas tower
several thousand feet above the surrounding plains of
the Gran Sabana in southeastern Venezuela.
Sparkling waterfalls plunging into the dense ring of
tropical forest at the base of these plateaus are a
dramatic and inspiring sight. Isolated from each other
and the savannah below, the summits of these fascinating
mesas, some of which are several hundred square miles in
area, are biological wonders. Each has developed its own
unique flora and fauna, many species existing nowhere
else in the world, causing some to refer to them as
Islands in the Sky. |
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