Disney’s animated movie “Up!”, featuring the striking landscapes
of southeastern Venezuela, has opened in many theaters around
the U.S. In an interview to the Associated Press, the film’s
director and story supervisor discussed the trip they took to
Angel Falls and the tepuis (a table-top mountain) of Venezuela
and Brazil during the making of the film. They described it as
“the most magnificent trip that most of us would take in our
lifetime” and called on tourists to be “respectful of the
locations” and not “ruin them ’cause they are really beautiful
places.” Watch the trailer featuring Angel Falls below. Archive
for the ‘Nature & Environment’ Category Posted in Nature &
Environment, tagged animals, Art, capybara, Catholic church,
chiguire, chiguires, Easter, herbivores, llanos, Nature,
rodents, South America, venezuela, wildlife, zoos on April 28,
2009 | Leave a Comment » Venezuela’s plains region is home to
the capybara (in Spanish, chigüire), which is the world’s
largest rodent. These herbivores can weigh