Travel Guide Monte Roraima

It was in 1654 that a map published by the French cartographer, Nicolas Sanson of Abeville, mentioned for the first time the word Roraïma. In pémon language, Roraïma means "the great mother always productive and mother of all currents." Roraïma is a mass of sandstone, the highest tepuy in Venezuela (2 810 m). It is often the culmination of a trip to Venezuela. In 1838, the scientist Robert Schoburg, accompanied by Pémons, explores the Roraïma area on behalf of the Britain's Royal Geographical Society, followed by English botanists Everard Im Coaches and Harry I. Perkins in December 1884. They are the first to climb a tepuy.Roraïma is part of South America's great treks, although it is less known than the Camino del Inca in Peru or the Torres del Paine tour in Patagonia - the best! The march leads, after passages in the savanna and then the jungle, to lunar landscapes as only offer the Roraïma - in an accessible and relatively economical way. It is definitely worth it.ClimateOfficially, it is said that the best months to climb the Roraïma extend between December and March during the so-called dry season. In fact, this drought is very relative: wait for rain throughout the year, and sometimes even a lot of rain. Officially also, it is estimated that the months of June and August are the worst, because the Roraïma is then wrapped in a cloud layer, but this also remains purely in the field of theory. I think we have to prepare psychologically to be often wet and simply recommend to the gods of Roraïma to be lenient. But that is not everything. At the top of the Roraïma is also blowing a sometimes violent wind, so cold, and it all year round.