There’s a place on our planet where time appears to have stood still. Long before the first backpacker ever stamped a passport or Instagram algorithms started dictating our travel bucket lists, nature was busy sculpting an impossible landscape deep in the south-eastern stretches of Venezuela. The tepuis tower like titanic, moss-covered fortresses from the dense jungle floor – massive table-top mountains that stab the cloud line. These prehistoric monoliths may look uncannily familiar, as they were the direct inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic novel The Lost World and Pixar’s beloved animated adventure, Up.
The desire for true, unadulterated isolation has never been higher for a generation of US travellers currently burnt out by hustle culture and hyper-connected city living. We’re no longer just looking for a pretty beach; we want places that change our perspective. That’s exactly what you find at Canaima National Park, a protected wonderland the size of Maryland. It's a huge old playground where the modern world is of no consequence at all.
