How to visit Angel Falls and Canaima National Park

Canaima National Park (Parque Nacional de Canaima) is a national park that spreads out across the Gran Sabana region of Bolívar State, in south-eastern Venezuela.

The park has been named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, mainly due to the table mountains – locally known as tepui – that cover 65% of its surface area, constituting a unique bio-geological entity.

Canaima National Park, however, is more popularly known for being home to the world’s tallest uninterrupted waterfall, a 979-meter drop flowing from the top of Auyantepui, one of the many tepuis this park national is famous for among geologists and biologists alike.

This waterfall is called Angel Falls, or Salto del Ángel in Spanish, and has today become the No. 1 tourist attraction in all Venezuela.

In this guide, you will learn how to plan your trip to Angel Falls and and Canaima National Park.

In this travel guide to Canaima you will find:

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How to get to Angel Falls and Canaima National Park

Canaima is actually a village, or more precisely, an indigenous settlement built in the middle of the jungle, on the shores of Lake Canaima. It’s inhabited by the local indigenous group, the Pemon, who live across Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil, although mainly in the Venezuelan Gran Sabana.

There are no roads connecting with the village so, as of today, the only way to travel to Canaima is by flying in from Caracas.

How to get to Canaima from Caracas

Conviasa is the only airline flying from Caracas to Canaima, operating 2 weekly flights between both destinations: Thursday and Sunday.

This means that your stay will either be from Thursday to Sunday, or from Sunday to Thursday.

Obviously, you can stay longer if you want to but technically, camping is strictly forbidden, plus accommodation is ridiculously expensive, so the length of your stay is completely up to you and the rate you manage to negotiate with your campsite.

How to book your flight ticket from Caracas to Venezuela

One of the difficulties of traveling to Venezuela is that you can’t book your domestic flights online….