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Roraima Tepui from a Distance
Roraima Climb in Canaima National Park

By Bonnie Hamre, About.com Guide

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Roraima Tepui from a Distance

Roraima Tepui from a Distance

Peter and Jackie Main
Arthur Conan Doyle populated the tepui Roraima with dinosaurs, strange vegetation and animals in his book, The Lost World, based on the accounts of British explorers Everard IM Thum and Harry Perkins who were the first Europeans to ascend Mount Roraima in 1884.

Mount Roraima is the tallest of the table mountains called tepuis and is located in the southeastern corner of Canaima National Park, near the borders of Brazil and Guyana.

This is the land of tropical savannahs, cloud forests, tepuis, rivers and waterfalls.

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