We drove from Puerto Ayacocho (PA) and reached Rio Orinoco in about an hour. We unloaded all our equipment onto a boat that sped us down the river. 
The Rio Orinoco, what we saw of it, is a busy river. As PA is at the end of the Rio Orinoco, we were soon off and onto one of the tributaries winding down and down further into the jungle. The river was beautiful, wide, lush with wildlife, calm and peaceful. After leaving the Orinoco, we only saw one other boat, and that was a tourist boat with just 2 Spanish tourists. After a hour or three we stopped off on a beautiful beach, deserted or course with beautiful clear water, fish and unfortunately bugs. Back onto our boat again and we ended up in our camp just before sun set. our guide cooked dinner and we ate by candle light as there is no electricity in this small little Indian village.
The Camp is very basic. All we had was a hut where we hung our hammocks, a table and a toilet a few metres away. The toilet was interesting, a western style with no water, just a huge whole in the ground underneath. In a lovely little hut of its own, but no doorway. The view from the loo was gorgeous in the daytime, looking straight out into the bush, but terrifying at night!.
My first night in a hammock, and very stressful. Trying to keep inside the mosquito net that's attached to the hammock and be comfy and stay still so as not to wake anyone (they are all attached to the same pole, so any movement swings your fellow hammockers)....then you need the toilet, lie there ages trying to forget as you don't want to wake anyone AGAIN and its too scary going to the toilet in the bush. Then go to the toilet, back again, then it starts all over again.
The Camp is very basic. All we had was a hut where we hung our hammocks, a table and a toilet a few metres away. The toilet was interesting, a western style with no water, just a huge whole in the ground underneath. In a lovely little hut of its own, but no doorway. The view from the loo was gorgeous in the daytime, looking straight out into the bush, but terrifying at night!.
My first night in a hammock, and very stressful. Trying to keep inside the mosquito net that's attached to the hammock and be comfy and stay still so as not to wake anyone (they are all attached to the same pole, so any movement swings your fellow hammockers)....then you need the toilet, lie there ages trying to forget as you don't want to wake anyone AGAIN and its too scary going to the toilet in the bush. Then go to the toilet, back again, then it starts all over again.
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