It was Sunday 5 am! I got up and could hear loud noise outside. Pulled the curtains back and it looked like a full festival was in swing on the beach. It was a 5K race.

The day I had checked into the hotel there was a stall in the lobby to collect your 5K race bibs. I went and asked them if I could register. They politely told me that the registration was closed. I asked if I could do race day registration. They told me no. I tried one last time explaining that I am a tourist and this was my first Guayana trip. No cigar!

It would have been really cool if I could have been down there warming up for the race. I have run races in two countries only outside the USA.

Having failed in that – I settled for the next best thing – bicycling!

… we flew off in clear weather – over the Amazonian rainforest one more time and landed in Ogle airport without any hiccups.

Kaieteur National Park Airport

Beautiful, bright orange birds – the Guyanese cock a rock bird – all over, but cannot take good shots of them from a distance thru all the branches and twigs. Miss my camera!

Near the waterfall, you can hear loud noises from time to time. If you carefully follow the noise to its source, you will be surprised! These are tiny golden rocket frogs. And they really have an amped up throat!!!

I wish I had my mirrorless camera with me. It was difficult to get too close to the frogs to take a picture.

This is the closest we can get to the Falls.

The view from here was even more impressive. We could not take enough pictures.

Our hike has three stops. This is the first stop. The hike thru the trees suddenly opened up to an area which gave an impressive view of the Falls. Looks daunting from here.