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00:00 | My first time in the Gran Sabana.
01:13 | Highway to the Gran Sabana.
02:44 | Entrance to the Canaima National Park.
04:11 | Arrival at the Aponwao River.
06:37 | Kamoiran rapids in Gran Sabana.
08:59 | Arapán Merú or Quebrada Pacheco.
10:40 | Camping in the Gran Sabana.
11:50 | Soroape Baths in the Gran Sabana.
12:46 | The walker of the Gran Sabana.
13:48 | What do you need to go to the Gran Sabana?
15:18 | Why do you need a guide in the Gran Sabana?
17:00 | Jaspe Ravine in the Gran Sabana.
18:34 | How to get to Santa Elena de Uairén?
19:49 | Cross the line between Venezuela and Brazil.
20:43 | Yakoo camp in the Gran Sabana.
22:52 | Photographs in the Gran Sabana.
I go crazy every time I see the old Bitacora chapters to react and share them with you. Because seriously I tell you that I do it in the heat. Not that I saw them before to know what to say. NOT THE CASE. The program starts and I go from astonishment to stupor, from tenderness to disbelief, from the “I don't remember anything” to the perfect memory that appears first in my soul and then in my brain. I really enjoy it very much. Hopefully you too.
On this occasion, I react to the first trip we made with Bitácora to the Gran Sabana. It was in 1995. The road had only been paved in 1992. It was impeccable, brand new, splendid. I had visited the Gran Sabana for the first time in my life in 1978, at the age of 20, with an uncle and my younger cousins in an old Toyota. That time, the dirt road and the ascent of the Piedra de la Virgen everyone was stuck between the mud and the hard climb.
The director of Bitácora at that time was Mariana Hellmund, a 25-year-old creature who had studied cinema in New York, a Venezuelan raised in other lands who was now discovering her own. I really liked how amazement, pride and euphoria were conveyed in each chapter. Its slow aesthetic. The details. The time to contemplate because that was the way of counting. Not this agitation we have now where everything must be so cool and impressive so that the audience does not abandon.
The gasoline was so abundant. Even the military had a station open to the public at Luepa Fort. At Salto Aponwao, the curiaras would reach 50 meters before the jump and the passengers would get off there. You heard the roar of the jump and saw the current. A few days after we visited, a curiara full of children left along with the priest and the nun who accompanied them. 3 tourists who jumped in and managed to reach the shore were saved by making an immense effort against the current. It was the month of August. The waterfalls at their winter peak. The engine didn't start and they were so close that there was no chance of anything. Soon they moved the landing site much higher upstream and put up stone walls and plenty of warning signs to keep people out. I reflected on the distance that nature imposes and must be respected. It was a very painful accident that impacted all Venezuelans.
In this chapter you will see how virgin the pools were. There were no churuatas huts, nor lodgings anywhere. Either you stayed in a tent or you looked for an inn in Santa Elena de Uairén, which was what many did. But yes... The Gran Sabana in its millennial heyday. Very green because of the rainy season. The crazy jumps. Many places that are now open to visit were secret from the Pemón community. Santa Elena had not suffered from the invasions. The Yakoo camp was all alone on that hill. Young Xiomara. It did not have the modern pool. And the Walker lived, a character who had reached the Gran Sabana walking 30 years ago and was still there, because he could never leave this beauty with such shocking energy.
The Gran Sabana in 1995 is a real treasure. A true legacy. A historical document. I give it to you today on my KZbin channel so that you can share it with your children, with your family, with your friends and with every Venezuelan in the world.
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