The most beautiful mountain of Caracas
Hello everyone, again me!
This time I come to post on a beautiful mountain that borders the northern area of my hometown, Caracas, called El Avila, also known as the Waraira Repano National Park. This great natural monument forms a barrier between the Caribbean Sea and the capital city. I tell you that this park is a majestic place, made up of beautiful landscapes and impressive falls of cold water, from where you can appreciate our city in miniature size. This adventure of visiting the mountain, you can live it in three ways, to walk up and at the same time exercising your body, in a rustic car following the natural path and the other one is going up from the city by the Cable Car.
There is a part in the journey when you go by the cable car where you can see a deep hole in the forest made up of trees of different species and that due to the height from the point in the section where you are you can be a little scared . Once you reach the top of the mountain, "Ávila Mágica", you will find the Hotel Humboldt, a famous hotel that opened in 1956.
If you decide to go walking you have to enjoy outdoor exercises and love nature, you have to like the mountain and know that you can find large rocks and stones of different sizes, mountains of different natural colors due to our tropical climate and hundreds of animals that very little are seen in the cities. The other surprise you will find when you are at the top of the mountain is the weather, I warn you that it is cold outside but with a little Caribbean Sun at the same time.
Now if you would like to eat or try a drink, I recommend you take a path that leads to a small town called Galipán, where you will find cafes and restaurants where they serve typical local dishes, prepared mostly with natural products grown in the same mountain. You can also enjoy a magical view of our Caribbean Sea, which is the maritime entrance par excellence of our country.
In a sector of this beautiful park is the Cerro Papelón del Ávila, there we can see a large cross, near the Hotel Humboldt. Its lighting begins on December 1st as the announcement of the Christmas season until January 6. As a child I always liked to watch her when she was in the car. There is a path where you can walk up there, I hope someday to go see it.
This photograph corresponds to the visit I made to the Ávila park on my 16th birthday with my companions, we climbed by cable car, we wanted to go skating on the ice rink that is there.
In these images you can see the track and our experience mounted on those skates.
In this photo I am in a place called La Piedra del Indio, from where you can see a little of what Caracas is.
A funny anecdote that day, was that when I fell down on a bush, at first I got scared because I thought I had fallen to a small precipice, thank goodness everything was a scare, now every time my friends and I remember that we laugh and not all are created at some point they were falling too.
Here I am in a place known as La Silla, a little more than half the way to get to Humboldt, I remember that day was for 6 hours to get to the hotel, exhausting, but it was worth it and the best thing is that after You get to enjoy that wonderful view from there, it's something unmatched.
I can not finish this post without showing you this beautiful photo that I took last year, that you can appreciate the north-east side of this majestic mountain that represents one of the most beautiful natural places in my country.
