(crowd yelling)
(slow music)
(upbeat music)
- [Mike] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
(boat engine roaring)
(gentle laughing)
(upbeat music)
(muffled yells)
(water bubbling)
(water splashes)
(gentle giggles)
(boat engine roars)
- We just finished up at Poza de Felicidad,
which means happiness pool,
and the hunters were doing their job quite well,
and were fishing the whole time as we took a break.
He's got some fish here that they caught.
(boat engine humming)
(soft laughs)
Wanna give him a kiss?
No, no, no, no, no.
Okay venture update, we just turned the corner,
and found Angel Falls right as the storm hit us.
(gentle laughs)
We're still pushing away up the rapids,
and now the sky's falling,
and it feels pretty good, feels very appropriate.
Angel Falls is right behind
the trees right here.
We're about ten minutes away from the camp
where we're gonna spend the night.
It should be a beautiful view,
right from the campsite of Angel Falls.
(lively music)
(excited yell)
Lex it seems like whenever we start an adventure,
the weather just decides to bomb out on us.
(rain pattering)
Bring it on.
Let's see your best show.
Camp is a couple levels above,
what I thought we're sleeping in, this is amazing.
Kinda creepy for sure.
So we're walking along the pass,
to try to find a good viewpoint of Angel Falls,
and there's all of these abandoned campsites.
We've been here for about an hour,
and the only people here are us and our group.
(mysterious music)
We've gone through maybe four or five,
of these abandoned locations.
At one point I'm guessing they were all full.
That's why they built so many and now it's just us.
(water roars)
(high yell)
(rain pattering)
(thunder rumbles)
All right, something exciting happened.
We just finished dinner,
and we were doing a little light hike,
to take some shots of the stars and the falls.
I had the headlamp on my head,
and this giant thing flew at me from the bushes,
and it's a moth,
but the moth is almost a foot wingspan maybe ten inches.
What does he feel like?
- [Lexie] Heavy.
(soft laughs)
His fingers are where it's like we're holding hands.
- [Mike] Oh yeah?
- [Lexie] Yeah, looks so soft.
It's like it's covered in fur.
We're making eye contact right now.
- [Mike] He loves you right now.
- This is so cool. - 'kay.
- This is really awesome.
(gentle laughs)
- [Mike] I've never seen a moth so big in my life.
- This is so cool.
- [Mike] What is he doing?
Do you see the red eyes on the iPhone?
(soft mumbles)
Look, so we were brushing our teeth,
and there was these two eyes glowing,
up in the trees and it's a giant tree frog, wow!
(excited giggles) (frog chirping)
- [Lexie] Oh my.
- Look at him.
He's so beautiful.
- Hey little guy. (giggles)
That's not real.
- [Mike] He's like as big as your face.
(kiss pops)
He'll turn into a prince.
- Do you think he'll turn into a prince?
- [Mike] I think so or you might die of some kind of poison.
- Some sort of jungle disease.
- [Mike] You might see a prince,
because it's a hallucinogen. - Because it'll be dead?
- Wow his eyes are huge?
- So are yours. - Yeah?
- [Lexie] You guys literally have matching eyes right now.
- [Mike] Hands back on the tree.
Oh wow look at that!
- [Lexie] His fingers work at the same time.
- [Mike] What an epic way to end the night, right?
- [Lexie] Oh my God.
(bugs humming)
(bug buzzing)
(gentle thud)
- [Mike] Oh fuck, Jesus.
How did you get inside the net?
Oh my God it's huge.
(zipper zips)
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Okay, we're up.
- Even he bit on you? - No, not.
(hearty laughs)
- There's a wasp inside.
See, it's like look at him, he's like a mouse.
(soft chuckles)
- Hey, get away.
- I missed out on all the action, huh?
- That's how you wake up in the jungle.
The plan today is to have some coffee,
wipe the sleep out of our eyes,
and do a one hour hike to the base of the falls.
(liquid pouring)
(bugs chirping)
(ground crunching)
Hey Lexie?
(gentle laughs)
Lipstick - Why thank you.
- [Mike] It's kinda sideways.
(hearty laughs)
Totally get that, there we go.
That looks like paper or cloth.
- It's like a skeleton.
- [Mike] All eaten by a caterpillar or something, right?
- Uh-huh, chirped.
(plane engine hums)
- Okay, we're gettin' pretty sweaty.
We've been walking uphill for probably like 30, 40 minutes.
We can hear the airplane circling overhead.
When you do Angel Falls is two options really.
Do the airplane flight over the falls,
which seems pretty sick,
or you can do the four hour rafting,
one night camping at the base of the falls,
which is even more sick.
So we chose to do the camping over the flying.
Is this it?
- Yes, - Yeah.
- Oh my God, oh my God, okay.
How's the view?
- Crazy! - Crazy?
- Yeah! - Okay.
(light guitar music)
- Oh wow.
(gentle laughs)
(water rushing)
(upbeat music)
(water rushing)
Two private tickets,
to the tallest waterfall in the world please.
We're the only people here.
(amazed laugh)
- It's just as cool as I thought it was gonna be.
(soft laugh)
And that's the dream.
(excited yell)
- We didn't know this til we got here,
but there is a pool at the base of Angel Falls,
so it cascades into a mist,
and then turns into a trickle,
and then turns into a beautiful waterfall and a pool,
so after I nice long sweaty hike,
best thing to do is swim in Angel Falls.
(water rushes)
Life's amazing.
(lively music)
Angel Falls, welcome to the part of the series,
where we sit down with a beer.
- My favorite part.
- And drink a beer?
- No Angel Falls!
- My favorite part is the beer drinking wrap-up videos,
we do at the very end of all these series videos.
So, episode two of the Venezuela travel series.
Angel Falls Canaima National Park.
Give me three words.
- Breathtaking, unbelievable,
- And?
- Wet.
(hearty laughs)
- So as you can probably tell,
we had a fantastic time in Canaima National Park.
- So beautiful
- Started off with the Salto el Sapo video,
which you probably already saw already,
and then the next day was going to Angel Falls.
And let me reiterate that this waterfall,
is 1,000 meters high.
It is the highest waterfall.
- The tallest waterfall on the planet.
- And there's nobody there. - No one.
- Did I tell you that the guide, Tony,
said that there used to be five hundred people a day there.
- It's cause. - There were two.
- There was two, us two. - There were two that day.
- And so much abandoned infrastructure,
because since tourism tanked,
how many years ago that was.
Those people don't go anymore, so it's all laid to waste.
The jungle's taking it back over.
That jungle is,
definitely a jungle. - Yes.
- We saw some creatures in that jungle that were wild.
- Oh that moth at night that was the same size as my face.
- It just blows my mind that one,
of the most incredible sights in the world,
let's forget about Angel Falls for a second,
Canaima National Park, Angel Falls is one little speck,
in a huge, huge, huge area, that has,
the most unique landscape I've seen in my entire life.
You don't see those giant table mountains.
- Huge table mountains,
in this winding river. - Anywhere else.
- The color of the river was almost red.
I don't know if you can notice it in the video,
but it was almost like dyed red from the leaves.
- It would rain, so how Angel Falls actually is a waterfall,
it's funny the guide actually never told us this.
(hearty laughs)
The guide wasn't the best guide.
He gave us a lot of privacy to take photos and videos,
but he wasn't exactly the most informative man.
Anyway but we found out on our own,
that it's because of the rain,
so rainclouds form on top,
of these giant pillar mountains,
and that's what feeds all of these waterfalls,
so even when it's not raining - It's constant.
- Angel Falls always has water,
from just the rain that's pooled there,
but when it does rain,
that day it did rain,
there's hundred small Angel Falls all pouring off.
- Off of different mountains.
- It's so beautiful there.
(upbeat music)
It just makes me feel sad,
that more people don't know how beautiful that is.
So we're gonna get into the specifics about,
the prices of the flights and tours,
and all that kinda stuff at the very end,
we'll do a wrap-up video summarizing our entire experience.
Lexie's already made a blog post about this
if you don't wanna wait,
and you wanna get into now on her blog Living Lost.
Make sure check out her Instagram as well
it's @Lexielimitless, and if you don't know me,
I'm Mike Corey of Fearless & Far,
I like makin' videos about crazy places and cool things,
and that's kinda what brought us together,
for this adventure.
(soft laughs)
There's the last video of Salto el Sapo,
the waterfall we visited the previously to Angel Falls,
it was insanely beautiful if you missed it.
And as well, make sure to subscribe.
If you haven't done that already.
Thank you guys for watching the Venezuela travel series,
there's still probably at least a video or two left,
there's definitely one left maybe two.
- Maybe, we'll see. - We'll see.
(hearty laughs)
- We hope you enjoy those as well.
Experience no possessions,
and catch you guys in the next video, peace.