Yes, you can see Angel Falls in an afternoon if you hire a plane. And the boat tour is short if you really only have a weekend - three days, two nights, including perhaps your first ever sleepover in hammocks in the jungle. But really, try not to rush your time in Parque Nacional Canaima - its designation as a World Heritage Site is well-deserved, and as I have told many of my friends and colleagues, getting to Angel Falls is really just the icing on a very fine cake. Here are a few images from my own tour, which started in Ciudad Bolivar, a bustling river town on the banks of the mighty Orinoco, with its prettily-painted colonial houses and squares dancing on the backs of up-and-down streets. From Ciudad Bolivar, you take a little prop plane over the interior of La Gran Sabana, arriving in Laguna Canaima, where the next phase of your adventure awaits you ...
