ANGEL FALLS - VENEZUELA
979 meters high: this is the Angel of the jump the highest waterfall in the world. The most dizzy dip part of the planet from the plateau of Mount Auyantepui, in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, and dives to precipice in one of the densest vegetation on Earth. One of the most famous natural wonders and love of Venezuela.
Legend has it that this cascade of its discoverer, Jimmy Angel, a bizarre and adventurous American pilot who, while flying over with his plane in 1937 the region Venezuelan plane entered stranded and forced him to make an emergency landing on the mountain Auyantepuy. Unharmed, walked for 10 days along the Rio Carrao reaching the first inhabited place. Still on top of the waterfall there is a reproduction of the famous plane that flew over the jump.
Amazing...
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