A few years ago, I had the opportunity to go to the National Park, now called, Waraira Repano, also known as El Avila National Park in Caracas, Venezuela.
This beautiful park, is the lung of Caracas city, everyone love it there. You can see it, I think from everywhere in the city, always showing where is the north, so it helps almost always to navigate the city.
El Ávila was declared a park in 1958, fulfilling an interest in its protection that had been prevalent since the 19th century. With its creation came the protection of the forested mountains that surround Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. These mountains now serve as both a recreational area and as a buffer to pollution and urban expansion. El Ávila has always been an important resource for the inhabitants of Caracas, who have used the area for a variety of activities, some of which have threatened its conservation. A hotel and a cable car, which climbs to the highest point at 2,135 meters (7,005 ft) above sea level and drops down the other side to the city of Macuto, were opened in 1956. After being out of service for 20 years, this cable car was reopened in February 2002.
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The biodiversity there is known all over the world, birds, plants, reptiles, it has it all. So, I wanted to know it, to see it with my own eyes, and I made it some years ago.
I took the longest car ride in the world, and went up there. Really liked it, I kept a few photos that remained me of that trip.
Today I want to share two of them with you....
Hope you like it...
Both photos was taken with my iphone 4S.