After a daring flight through Devil's Canyon, necessary to contemplate the world's highest waterfall, Angel Falls, landing is over Kavac's rough strip, one of the region's few accessing ways. Located within Canaima National Park -whose 30 thousand square kilometers make it the seventh world's largest-, southeast of Auyán-Tepui, Kavac is an Indian settlement of the Pemon ethno. The camping site has with materials that have been forever used by Pemones: soil mud and mirity palms.

Aerotuy has two camps in the park: Kavac, near the souther base of Auyantepui (the largest of the spectacular flat-tooped mesas of ancient stone in the Gran Sabana, covering an area of 700 sq. Km.) and Campamento Arekuna, near the northwestern limit of the park. Aerotuy offers all inclusive packages for tourists that include transfers, meals, beverages and excursions, with the best guides and Pemon Indians, that speak almost any language. They offer day tours or overnight stays. Their flights leave everyday from Porlamar and Ciudad Bolívar.

Near the camp, and following the water course to the Auyan-Tepui's bottom, there are three beautiful caves. Kavac's cave is the closest and most visited one. It it east of the camp, approximately half an hour by foot. During the journey one can enjoy Kavac river, with many puddles formed in the cavities of reddish shiny rocks inviting to plunge into them. Sometimes, the path may turn very steep when going around some gorgeous small water falls, such as Tavanarempa falls. To reach the entrance to the cave one must swim across a small lagoon, and as you advance to the cave a narrow water and rock corridor with very high and dark walls is discovered. The walls are formed bu the tepui's deep crevices that open to the visitors the sight and sounds: of the magnificent Kavac Falls: a violent white water fall roaring through the middle of a gigantic circle of shiny stones.

To the north of Kavac Camp, after a long steep slope, is the fascinating Indian Cave. It is majestic, with a completely vertical waterfall, located behind the profile of an Indian perfectly sculpted by nature. On the way to the Indian Cave, one can visit La Toma -a water intake-, a place from where the water used in the camp is taken. Also, a rest can be taken in Murei, the stone of life, gigantic rock that stands on equilibrium over other smaller ones, and that according to Pemon legend, it holds the world's central axis. It is said that when the rock falls, the world will fall too. Around the Murei stone, whoever wishes to bathe in its cold waters can slide by the natural water sled formed by stones or, swimming underwater, can pass through a under rock.

The most distant and mysterious waterfall is Yurván-yeudá, or Yurván's cave, located approximately three hours by foot from Kavac camp. The journey is through the plains seeded with stone and pasture, before descending to the river banks. There the hiker can freshen under any revitalizing waterfall, or sunbath on any of the perfectly flat stones, and drink the minerals laden waters. Then the path continues, once more ascending and descending through the tepui's skirts, till reaching a lagoon that keeps the entrance to an big stone corridor.

Half swimming and half walking, the entrance to Yurván cave is passed through. Then you are there, at the feet of the cave with the largest extension, and the most resonance. Of the three falls, Yurván has the strongest vertical fall, the most ample lagoon. A little platform, protruding from the wall, can be reached after a short swim across the lagoon. Once there you can enjoy the sun that enters in the grot in the hours close to noon.

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