Photos of Venezuela from TheWorldinLight Photo Gallery
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Photos of Venezuela
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Venezuela is a wonderful country with a diverse selection of pleasures - from its beautiful coastal beaches to the
Andes Mountains to the wildlife-rich area known as Los Llanos. Venezuela is also home to some fascinating flat-topped
mountains known as Tepuis. These very ancient mountains rise nearly straight up from the surrounding grasslands and
their flat-topped peaks are entirely isolated from their surroundings. Consequently, life has evolved completely
separately on the tops of these tepuis.
One of the tepuis is known as Roraima. It is now accessible by a moderately difficult multi-day hike.
Roraima was first explored by an expedition financed by the National Geographic Society just after the beginning of
the twentieth century.
Explorers discovered an assortment of plant and animal life there that could be found nowhere else on earth. It became the basis
for a book entitled "The Lost World" written in the early 1900's by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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View From Roraima
Roraima is one of many unique mountains known as Tepuis. Tepuis are tall flat-topped mountains that rise nearly straight
vertically from the grasslands where Venezuela, Brazil, and French Guiana meet. The tops of these mountains are so inaccessible
that none were explored until Roraima, when National Geographic sponsored an expedition there in the early 1900's.
Scientists learned that nearly half the life forms found there were unique and found nowhere else on earth.
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Los Nevados
Los Nevados is a beautiful village in the Andes Mountains of Venezuela. A typical excursion there typically starts
from Merida, where the tallest cable car in the world takes you high into the mountains. From there, a long,
beautiful hike will take you to this village.
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Anaconda #671
This Anaconda was found in the wild in a swamp in the Los Llanos region of Venezuela.
It's sheer speculation what this anaconda had eaten. Perhaps it was a Capabara, perhaps a Caiman. In any case, the
curves and lumps in its enormously stretched belly was something that had been alive very shortly before we encountered
this snake.
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Anaconda #672
I waded swamps in Los Llanos, Venezuela for hours looking for the famous anaconda. We found two, coincidentally spaced only
perhaps fifty meters apart from each other. Thankfully, they both had very recently eaten, probably within hours. The largest
of the two - both of which were enormous - was perhaps 6-7 meters long.
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Anteater #626
This is a tree anteater that I photographed in the Los Llanos region of Venezuela.
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Anteater #627
Los Llanos, Venezuela is home to a highly diverse population of wild animals. The area is full of Caiman, Capabara,
Anteaters, Anaconda and monkeys. Birdwatchers from around the world come here because of the number of different
species of birds here.
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Anteater #629
The Tree Anteater moves very slowly, almost like a Slow Loris. This one was photographed in Los Llanos, Venezuela.
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Robert Stephens
TheWorldinLight Photographic Gallery
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