kavak

Place clean, friendly staff, good accommodation.Food was great. and guide was excellent. Thanks Frank.

We are just getting back from Canaima. The National park is one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. It's so untouched and its views are so breathtaking that if you ever doubted there's a god you will be convinced there's a major power somewhere by the time you leave Canaima. Kavak is the best example of it. Just breath taking and unbelievable. As beautiful as it get. Totally worth doing at least once in your life. On our end we will definitely repeat the experience sometime soon.

Stayed here for 1 night in Kavac at the Campamento Uruyen Lodge. Great location with fantastic scenery and a good starting location when you are visiting Angel Falls. Also went to Kavak Canyon as an optional excursion.

Kavak is a lovely camp at the base of the Auyantepui. You have there the basic things you need, small basic rooms, showers and toilets and delicious food. I'm a vegetarian and they took great care of me and prepared wonderful dishes. The locals make sure you feel at home and take you to the best places in the area. I personally fell in love with the kid who took care of us during our stay. He was kind, friendly and honestly one of the nicest persons I have ever met. The Pemones (inhabitants of the area) are like no other people. It's worth travelling that far to meet this amazing people from which we have so much to learn .

Owned and run by the Pemon....fantastic place off the beaten track. Go to Uruyen too!!! if you want to go this place contact me and I"ll give you more info. Not everyone goes there.....well worth the visit if you are also going to Angel Falls.

I had a language barrier while in Canaima but it did not hinder the travel. Going to Kavak was amazing. The Pemon Indians handle the travel. First you get to Indian village in a very small plane that seats two people. Next you land in the village and are taken to Kavak by an Indian guide. It's a long hike and you have to be flexible. Make sure to bring a lot of water with you. You will get as you have to jump in a pool of water to get there. It is so worth it to see that water coming out of the rocks that surround you. I have no photo because I was in water at the time.

We happen to be on a small plane heading to an "indian village" and a short walk in the nature that turned out to be a wet and quite difficult excursion on slippery rocks in a canon. Physically not that much demanding , but one should be prepared to have plastic shoes from walking in riverbed to save the feet and have only waterproof or no luggage or valuable. The falls at the end of the cnon are breathtaking, be in good shape to swim at the feet of the falls as the water might suck down deep .

A really nice Venezuelan village with friendly locals who work hard to keep their village clean and appealing and have a wonderful school for their children. Do a short day hike to waterfall and plunge pool or lay in a hammock to read after our 7 mile walk fron Uruyen village

It is one of the best camps I have been in. The attention is very good. Do not forget to bring insect repellent or you will be very very sorry. The stings are very painful. Other than that the adventure does not compare with anything in the world.

My husband and I are Australians in our early sixties and we had a day trip from Waku Lodge in Canaima Nat. Park to Kavak. It was a fantastic experience and although we speak little or no Spanish we had no trouble communicating with our local indigenous guide, Ceasar. One of the best things about this little know place is that we had a group of only 8 people on our wonderful 'hike' along the river. We were amazed by the beautiful rock pools where we could jump in and swim and the amazing waterfalls, particularly when we got up to the BIG waterfall in Kavac Cave - it was awesome. On our return we had a nice lunch at the village and then set off in our little 4-pasenger Cessna to fly to Salto Angel. Although we were there in April (officially still the dry season), we were lucky that there was water pouring over the Falls and it was spectacular!! Flying over the whole area was amazing as we were able to get so close to the huge Tepuis which are pretty awesome themselves. What a trip!! If you are planning a trip to Venezuela, do not miss this great place! Moira Duncombe, Sunshine Coast, Queensland Asutralia.

very interesting to share with the indios and enjoy the stay, you can either rent a churuata or hut, which are very basic but clean or sleep in your own tent.

There are many other campaments, but this one is operated by the family that founded this campament 25 years ago. Ask for owners, and don't miss the granma Ines, the wife of the founder. they will trest you like part of their family. They have the best rooms available, confortable bed, shower, toilete,etc you will new expect to find this clean and lovely place in the middle of nowere... Contact me if you want to visit the gran sabana, I can give you some tips before your start your expedition

One of the attractions of the tour to Kavac was the opportunity to overfly the Angel Falls. We set off in lovely weather around the Auyan Tepui - the wrong side, and was told by the pilot we´d do the falls on the return. OK. He knows what he is doing?However a different pilot flew us back and because the weather had closed in we returned the same way.Major disappointment - Carpe diem!The wet way through the canyon to the waterfall was fun, wear something with a good grip, it´s very slippy, but little else…

What a place!! LIke in the movies, and going with the plane over the area, was so great! If you go to Canaima, include in your budget this trip, because it is absolutely worthwhile. You can even spend a night there, in order to make another great excursion.

This tiny Indian settlement on the Southern end of Auyantepui is an overlooked paradise. Very few of the thousands tourists who flock to Canaima National Park each year think to spend the extra few hundred dollars to organize a day-trip (or overnight trip) to Kavak. They're missing out big time.First, because the actual flight from Canaima Camp, over Auyantepui and Angel Falls and down into the Gran Savannah is jaw-dropping stuff. You typically crowd into a tiny (4 seat, single engine plane) and take a 25 minute ride you'll never forget, skimming right over the top of Auyantepui and coming so close to the source of Angel Falls you feel you could touch it.Landing in Kavak a few minutes later, you can't shake the sense that you've entered a dream world. A perfectly quiet Indian Settlement right where the majestic, emerald green savannah buts up to the table-top mountain. From here, a 15 minute walk deposits you into stray bits of jungle where various water-falls come down from the mountain, making a maze of swimming ponds, caves and falls you can swim in, under and around, shaking off the afternoon heat and feeling yourself just melt into some of the greatest scenery you'll ever see. Best yet, because so few tourists make it out here, you have a good chance of getting to enjoy these places all by yourself, with just your Indian guide for company.There's no nightlife in kavak. No shops. No cars. Nothing that makes noise. The "airport" is a single bench by the side of a landing strip. There are a few mangy dogs and a population of about a dozen. The sky at night over this wilderness is an unbroken sheet of stars, so removed from any source of light pollution you feel like you can see the milky way whole.It's been said a million times: Canaima is amazing, jaw dropping, any superlative you can come up for it falls short. But the tourists hordes can make it feel just a bit commercialized at times. Kavak, on the other hand, is not just paradise: it's a paradise you can have all to yourself.