Kaieteur Falls, Guyana

Kaieteur Falls, on the Potaro River in Guyana, drops 226 metres in a single sheer plunge, making it one of the tallest and most powerful single-drop waterfalls in the world by volume. The falls sit in pristine primary rainforest within Kaieteur National Park, accessible only by small charter aircraft from Georgetown. That isolation keeps visitor numbers low and preserves an uncrowded, genuine wilderness encounter, with rare wildlife including the Guiana cock-of-the-rock and the golden rocket frog found nowhere else.