In the trip which we did trying
to arrive at the "Autana" tepuy, we slept in la Playita, "the little
beach", the only bank of sand that we found in that black river like an "overloaded" cup of tea and with walls of
dense and high forest side and side.
We found it almost at dusk, nervous by
not knowing how if we would find a site where to berth the boat and to do the camp, with time just to prepare us to spend
the night.
It was a clear area of a rocky formation
higher than the canopy of the trees, about thirty or forty meters on the level of the river and finished in a small sand area
that touched the river.
Of course the first thing that we did
was claim to the top of the rock to see the landscape, an the view of 360 degrees of pure forest, green, dense and to
the south the imposing Autana with its shape characteristic of a tepuy and the mystic who speaks of its legend.
After the night arrived, black and deep
and after we ate something, already prepared to sleep we went up again to see the stars, to hear silence, to smell the forest.
In the absolute dark million stars dazzled
to us, the scent of clean, purity, oxygen invaded to us.
The civilization silence hits,
being a noisy silence, the noises of the forest that at dusk begin, noises that in the dark of the night are enlarged because
they are mixed with the imagination........
In the river the toads sounded like
giant monsters that dominated the atmosphere with their song, answering themselves the one to the other..........
The crickets snored like crunches and
whines of heavy machinery......
In the forest, noises of movements,
close, distant deep movements................. Above.......... Down...... Everywhere.....
And in that unique night in our memories
I got a flute, and in the top of one of those rocks I tried to follow the rhythm of the night, the rhythm of those noises,
and the echo of the flute at night with a melody that transported us in time to the essence, to the history, to the prehistoric
memories of our same existence took us in a trip of dreams, in a forest trip, to the unknown, to the lived times...........
The following morning after having breakfast
and preparing to go, we claimed again to the top to see the dawn, to say goodbye to that magical world, to that special site
that offered its magic and embraced us..........
And to our surprise when raising up we
perceived a penetrating scent, rancid, strong, that was not there the previous night, characteristic to felines urine, it
was tiger, panther or "cunaguaro" was a scent that reminded to us of the savage of the jungle, and like marking its territory was
telling us
"Hey, beware, this place
is mine" ........