It Must Have Been A Dream!: Venezuela - Going Up By Balloons To Angel Falls

In the Pixar movie Up, Carl Frederikson strings up a massive array of balloons to loft his house on a quest to find his boyhood hero, presumed lost in the jungles of South America. In a nod to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, the centerpiece of the story is Paradise Falls, a legendary waterfall which cascades a staggering 9700 feet from cloud-enshrouded cliffs to the jungle below.

Carl Frederikson' Paradise Falls...

This place is REAL.

Named after Jimmy Angel, an adventurous pilot from Missouri, Angel Falls is located in the Guayana highlands. Falling 979 metres off the edge of the "Auyantepuy" Tepuy (table mountain), the largest in Canaima Venezuela, it is the tallest waterfall in the world.

Constantly shrouded in mist and clouds...

The three rivers join to created an awesome display of torrential fall...

These table-top mountains are the remains of a large sandstone plateau that once covered the granite basement complex between the north border of the Amazon Basin and the Orinoco, between the Atlantic coast and the Rio Negro. Throughout the course of the history of Earth, the plateau was eroded, and the tepuis were formed from the remaining monadnocks.

Odd-shaped mountains similar to the shape of a human' incisor teeth...