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Hello friends! @soyunasantacruz tagged my in her post for this initiative and at first I didn't think I could come up with the pictures for a post like this. However, after going through some albums I found some cool pictures of a trip we made around 2002. It was the second big family trip. The first was a tour to Mérida State (Venezuela). But I don't know where those photos are. So, I found some of our family vacation to La Gran Sabana.
La Gran Sabana is region form Canaima National Park located in Bolivar State in the southeastern region of Venezuela known as Guayana. It has an area of 10,820 square kilometers. This area isn't only in Venezuela but extends to Brazil and part of Guyana. It's famous for several reasons. It has beautiful landscape, several gorges, rivers and waterfalls and plateaus (known as tepui). The vegetation and fauna has been subject to several studies form scientific as the ecosystem is reach in exotic species.
Our trip to this place came by a tour. Tours were a very popular thing during the late 90s and early 2000s in Venezuela. It was a way to travel around the country with a guide and share with other people from different States. After por first one on Merida, my parents wanted to go south to La Gran Sabana, which is still one of the most visited destinations in the country (even though now it's quite expensive).
I'll start the tour with the photos of some old photos I found in the albums.
This rock is one of the oldest in the world. It is called The Virgin Rock ( La Piedra Virgen ) since till that date no one had been able to chip it away. This is the first milestone of the trip. It's the staring of Canaima National Park.
Through be told, I don't remember many things about these vacations. The landscapes are in my mind, but it wasn't like a lot happened. What I remember about it, it's the time it took us to get there. It was hours and hours in the bus. At some point, I remember we had to walk to get to another bus since there was blockade on a bridge. Added to that, it was the first time I ever saw wildfires. Those are common in the area during the middle of the year since the temperature gets high enough to ignite the dry weeds.
A relevant fact of the trip is that it was the first time my brother and I went out of the country. Part of the tour included a pass to The Line, which is a frontier town located in Brazil. I remember not understanding a thing of the mix of Portuguese and Spanish people speak there.
There's a lot for water around the place. I remember this beautiful rocks from this river that gets to something called " Quebrada de Jaspe . It is wild to see rock that's blood- colored with some black features. We didn't stay much time there since the natives warned us about snakes coming out at nightfall. So there's was an added danger factor.
Some of the things we couldn't do was going all the way to Angel Falls. This is because the road is not advisable for small children. As it takes days to reach the base camp of Auyantepui (the plateau that holds this waterfall). And a lot of this trip is made of boats over the river to native camps in the wilderness.
However, I remember that before we went to the National Park we made a stop at El Callao which is a mining town from Bolivar State and we had the chance to go down into a mine shaft.
As an uneventful vacations, this was really nice. It was back in the times when the socialist regine had not squeezed the life out of the country's economy. And one could get to do stuff like this on each vacation. Watching this photos reminds me of those times. We used to travel a lot. We made a lot of these family trips to everywhere in Venezuela. And I'm fond of this memories. Traveling let's you explore new cultures and learning about other places gives you a different perspective about your hometown.
I have to add a crazy anecdote about this trip. When we arrive to Santa Elena de Guairen, the las Venezuelan town near the frontier with Brazil in Bolivar State, we were served some nuggets of something that tasted like chicken. Later we found out we had eaten snake nuggets. This didn't surprise us too much as we had been eating weird stuff on the road, venison, alligator (babas as their are called around here).
When we look back on these days, we have a laugh. Nowadays the family isn't all together as my brother lives abroad. But this family memories will be with us forever.
Another big point about these trips was the idea of coming together with other people form different parts of the country. Sharing experiences and ways of life made the whole idea of traveling more of a family trip than it should be. It is the warmth of the words and gestures of kindness among people who are just knowing each other. The solidarity of Venezuelan in a nutshell. More like rinding on some wheels. That has made each tour I have taken a heartwarming experience that pops from time to time in mind and always cracks a smile on my face.
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Que bonitos recuerdos guardas en tus memorias y están lindas fotografías.
Nunca he visitado la Gran Sabana, es un sitio turístico del que todos se enamoran al conocerlo.
Es bonito compartir en familia y con nuevas personas que nos conseguimos en el camino.
Saludos y bendiciones @bertrayo
Es uno de dos tantos viajes que guardo en mi memoria. No recuerdo demasiado de todo el tema porque ya han pasado como 20 años. Hasta me sorprendo de poder decir eso. Pero algunas cosas no se olvidan.
Es un lugar chévere para visitar. Aunque en estos momentos debe ser carísimo.
Gracias por tus palabras. Saludos, @leidimarc
20 años? Como pasa el tiempo.
Te entiendo, muchas cosas se borran de nuestra mente para dar cabida a muchas más.
Lo bueno que siempre nos queda algo y fue lo mucho que lo disfrutaste en familia y con nuevas amistades.
Si debe ser costoso echarse nuevamente esa aventura.
Sí, 20 años. Una locura total. El tiempo vuela.
Y claro creo que esa modalidad de tours por el país ya no existe. Aquello era interesante porque te daba una idea de cómo hacer un recorrido por una ciudad.
Hermosos recuerdos.
Desde niña he querido conocer la Gran Sabana, espero algún día poder hacer realidad ese sueño. Es un lugar increíble.
Saludos 😊
Es un lugar que parece sacado de un cuento. Demasiada belleza junta. Lo único que no pudimos hacer porque éramos muye pequeños fue el recorrido hasta el Salto Ángel. Eran muchos días de viaje metidos en la selva. Pero son duda es un viaje para recordar para toda la vida.
Saludos. 🤗✌🏻✨
Those trips are great! I did something similar with a friend, but by bus to Santa Elena, at Christmas and with my first breakup.
My tragi-comic anecdote was that in La Linea I bought a parchita juice, but everything was written in Portuguese, and I didn't understand anything, so I opened it and drank it.
It gave me a terrible allergy, because it was a concentrate and the acid burned all around my lips.
I was left with huge lips (bembona) for the rest of the trip!
Oh, my... Ha, ha, ha, ha. That's the best trip anecdote I have read so far. I remember being in that place and it was like one of those towns taken out of a book. Very... picturesque.
Sin lugar a dudas debe ser un lugar mágico Andrés. Siempre he querido visitarla pero hasta ahora no se me ha presentado la oportunidad. Las cascadas demasiado bellas. Desde que me vine de Güiria no sé lo que es bañarse en un río jaja. Que lindo que pudiste vivir esa experiencia con tu familia.
Gracias por etiquetaron porque ya me había olvidado jajsja.
Cosas que se podían pagar por allá a comienzos del 2000. No tengo ni idea de cuánto debe costar eso. Hace años vino un Sensei de Aikido desde Argentina para dar una clases en el dojo de aquí y recuerdo que se perdió con la mujer por una semana para irse a hacer ese recorrido. Recuerdo que era un montón de dinero. Otra de esas cosas que terminó siendo para los extranjeros. Pero bueno, cuandos seas ballena de Hive te vas poder costear todo eso y más.
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