Roraima plateau - a wonderful miracle of nature (46 photos) Bashny.Net

In South America, at the intersection of Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana have a few tens mountains called tepuis Roraima (Roraima). In the language of the Indians "tepuis" means "home of the gods».



these mountains, with distinctive vertical slopes and flat tops - one of the oldest in the world. Represents the remains of the destroyed long plateau, they are composed of very hard sandstone. These are difficult, distant from each other cliffs soar above the surface, forming a whimsical, ethereal form. Highest tepuis in Venezuela - Mount Roraima (2810 m), which is also called the "big blue-green mountain." It is located on top of the plateau area of ​​about 30 square kilometers



Roraima is constantly hanging over a large cloud: fog here - a frequent guest, and his gloomy haze unearthly forms cliffs seem Space landscape. Of living creatures here are found huge black rats and frogs in the third finger of value. Of vegetation - strange carnivorous plants ...



When writing about Roraima, be sure to mention Arthur Conan Doyle and his "Lost World", inhabited by dinosaurs. The idea of ​​the novel - the opening of a plateau with prehistoric plants and animals - there was a writer after the expedition of the German Robert Schomburgk on Roraima. The expedition was a failure, but a fantasy novel was a great success. But she pleases travelers Roraima fantastic exposure decent serve as a natural setting for a fairy tale.



And Roraima - a collection of amazing beauty of landscapes: mountains, rivers, savannas and jungles and beautiful individually, let alone see it all together! .. It seems that even the very air of this extraordinary corner of the earth is full of mystery and mysticism ... Roraima, as said one of the lucky witnesses - is "an exclamation point at the end offers» ...



The current uninhabited Roraima only adds to her mystique. Impression is that you are not moved from one point to another planet, and was in the distant cosmic worlds. And not immediately determine how to treat the surrounding landscape: it is so beautiful that it is impossible to look away.



"The alien landscape. Lunar, Martian. We often recite these epithets to describe a particular landscape. Usually it is a synonym of lifelessness, emptiness. And just walking along the surface of the plateau of Roraima - The Lost World, we can confidently say, unearthly landscape, alien, alien.



Sensation of being on another planet does not leave: constant fog, black rocks of fantastic shapes, sclerophyllous plants with balls on long stems, rushing underground waterfalls, tiny black frog ... The Lost World. A world in which it is easy to get lost, as the man he did not belong »...