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alvarorb
02-11-2008, 01:34 AM
Guys,

When I lived in Venezuela I used to go camping/wheeling at least once
a year to La Gran Sabana National Park. It's located in south eastern
Venezuela. Near the Brazilian/Guyanean border. The park has a surface
of over 7.4 million acres, making it the 4th largest in the world.
The pics that I've uploaded on my photo gallery where taken in a
period of 10 years starting in 1985. Please forgive the quality. They are
all negative scans and at the time when I scanned them, the scanner
was not super high quality. There were no consumer digital camera's back then.
The blue FJ40 and the white FJ60 where my vehicles on those trips.
First came the 40, then the 60.

http://tinyurl.com/37keal

Regards

Alvaro
Trail Monkey
02-11-2008, 01:57 AM
cool photos. thx for sharing..
Sgt Grunt
02-11-2008, 04:00 AM
Alvaro, Nice pictures...

I would love to go back to Canaima, and Kavoc... and of course Angel Falls.
Desertdude
02-11-2008, 01:21 PM
Really great to see your photos from back then. So much water.
The amazing part is you haven't aged a bit in nearly twenty years :shakin:
Ursidae69
02-11-2008, 01:40 PM
Great photos, thanks. Loved the waterfalls.
viatierra
02-11-2008, 05:25 PM
Oh man that looks like it was a good time!
alvarorb
02-11-2008, 07:38 PM
Thanks for the responses. La Gran Sabana holds a special place in my heart. It's what defined what camping and being "out there" was about.

Pasquale,

I beg to differ. I think I look a little different today:

Then:
http://gallery.mac.com/alvarorb/100141/Fotos-20Viejas021/web.jpg

Now:
http://gallery.mac.com/alvarorb/100113/IMG_3121/web.jpg

I wonder what became of those sunglasses...

Alvaro
viatierra
02-11-2008, 07:53 PM
It's what defined what camping and being "out there" was about.

That is EXACTLY what I was thinking while looking at them! Sort of wish those were my memories...
UK4X4
02-11-2008, 08:41 PM
Alvaro,

neat I have a lot of almost the same photo's...

feel free to add to this thread with your views and some of the photo's..

http://expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11002

Mine pics are more recent......but the tracks have not changed much even over nearly 20 years..........



That gas station at KM 88...is almost unchanged.....only the kid that probably washed your windscreen is now a dad !
24HOURSOFNEVADA
02-12-2008, 03:29 AM
The pic at st helena has a cool 45 series cruiser in the background...Oh and the rest were great as well! Thanks for sharing.