[ESP-ENG] Iniciativa: Vacaciones Memorables // Initiative: Memorable holidays

VACACIONES MEMORABLES// MERIDA.

Tuve que agrupar las fotografías en collage porque tenía más de 400 y no me decidía cuál colocar.

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When I got married I always traveled constantly, and that's how I met almost all of my country, my mom, like me, had always dreamed of going to this state, but it had never been possible, a One day my husband arrived and told us: "Family reunion" so we sat down my mother who lives with us, my daughter, my husband and I, told us to fix everything that in two days we are going to Mérida, I already bought the tickets, I'll tell you that everything was crazy, the next day we had to go out and buy suitable clothes for the cold, and well, we fixed everything in record time.

The day of departure we left around noon, you have no idea how excited the four of us were, we boarded the unit and headed to Mérida, it was quite a long trip because we are from one end to the other , we practically crossed the entire country, it was 23 hours of travel until we finally arrived, tired but more than anything excited, when we arrived many people approached us offering rental houses, apartments, tour packages, etc.

We did business with a very nice lady, by the way, she got us a ride with an even nicer man than the same lady I still remember his name: Arturo Medina, who took us to the apartment we rented, We settled there, the man offered to be our guide, he offered us a variety of packages and we liked it, that day we only used it to rest, and the man explained that we were one block from the Coromoto ice cream parlor, the largest in the world and guinness record.

We really enjoyed that night there, we didn't know which flavors to choose, I wanted to try them all, I remember that night I ordered one with rose petals, with corn and cocosete, hahahaha we all ordered crazy flavors, my husband she ordered beer, whiskey and vodka hahahaha man finally, my mom also ordered different flavors fororo, chickpea and corn and when it was time to ask my daughter guess what flavors she ordered: strawberry, ice cream and chocolate I was shocked to travel 23 hours and arriving at the ice cream parlor with the most flavors in the world and this girl ordering what she could have ordered anywhere, hahahaha things that only happen to us. We walked around the square for a while and then back to the apartment.

The next day we went to the cable car station with the intention of going up, but since we did not know anything about how it worked, we found out that we had to buy the tickets from one day to the next, so we bought and went for a walk to the emblematic tourist sites, we went to the cathedral, to the Bolivar square, we fed the pigeons, we went to the heroines square, then we had lunch and walked through everything that is the center of the city and my poor camera I almost melted it from so many photographs I took, at night when we returned to the apartment we had dinner at a hamburger stand and when we left we returned to the ice cream parlor since it was on the way to the apartment, there we tried new flavors that day I ordered an ice cream from the pavilion, my mother from fish, pepitonas, and rice, my husband from miche, rum and anise and my daughter strawberry, ice cream and chocolate hahahaha.

Then the next day we were really anxious, we got up very early and went to the cable car, when we arrived we took many photos in the waiting area and of course we bought hats, gloves and scarves, then yes our journey began and we went up station by station and in each of them we enjoyed typical food, when we reached the highest part the experience was incredible I looked like a girl I ran around the place, we made snowmen, and the best of All I could witness was an incredible snowfall, it was one of the most wonderful experiences I have ever had.

The next day we went to see a moor and its little towns, that journey took us about three days since we stayed to sleep in one of these towns, I remember that when we were on our way, Mr. Arturo He stopped and showed us a very beautiful waterfall and told us his story (I don't remember it right now) called Cascada Velo de Novia.

We also visited the town of Jaji, a very picturesque town, we went to one of the businesses to buy handicrafts and my mom and husband used up all the Andean chicha that was in the place, not even Neither my daughter nor I liked it, we also visited many small towns.

Another of the incredible experiences I had in Mérida was having visited the Collado del Cóndor, formerly called the Pico del Águila, in this place the cold is much stronger even than the cable car, there I really felt as the cold got into my bones, hahahaha and we ate chocolates until we were tired to appease the cold a little, another day we visited the main market, we almost brought all the sweets that were in the place, that without counting all the boxes of handicrafts we brought.

Mérida is incredible, it has a lot to see, on one of the days we went out for a walk we visited Castillo San Ignacio, a hotel located in Mucuchies that is a beauty, I met the moment of the Nevado dog, the stone house, we also went to see the monument of Loca Luz Caraballo, as well as the monument of the 5 eagles.

We were able to go to a park called the mountain of dreams, an impressive place that only works at night, this park has the theme of recreating what the media were like in the past years, it is a place where the fun begins from the moment you enter there I dressed up as Igor and recorded a movie, we visited the old radio and television studios, there we dressed up as the 70s I participated in dance competitions, my daughter in a modeling, anyway we had a lot of fun.

Another day we visited the park called the Venezuela of the day before yesterday, an impressive park. We arrived there very early because the route is very long, so much so that it lasted all day. Juan Vicente Gómez himself received us there ( former president of Venezuela cataloged as a dictator), we visited throughout the day each state-by-state representation, I cannot deny it, this day was incredible, unfortunately I do not have at hand the photographs of this day.

Almost the last day they took us to visit the Mucubaji Lagoon, a magical place where the cold does its thing, it is an immense place, beautiful where we spent the whole day, I remember that Mr. Arturo told us that there was a place where we could fish the trout ourselves and so we did, after fishing them we took them to the restaurant where they prepared the trout in garlic sauce, by God this has been one of the worst things I have ever eaten in my life , at the first bite I felt the taste of mud in my mouth and none of the four of us liked it, that day we only ate the delicious Andean arepitas with cream, which were tasty, we spent the day walking, we enjoyed the impressive landscape that nature gave us, there the cold was also our faithful companion, and it made me laugh to see how the foreigners were unprotected, while we looked like terrorists hiding behind so many clothes, but it was an unforgettable day.

We spent two wonderful weeks in this place blessed by God, full of so many magical places to visit and I did visit almost all of them, but of course I want to go back and visit what we couldn't, for example the observatory that at that time was not open to the public due to remodeling, and I missed visiting a park called los aleros and the grandparents' inn, and I owe my family that debt, to be able to take them back to this place where we feel so good, this place without a doubt It has been the best place I have visited in my entire life, both inside and outside my country, every bit of this State was engraved in our minds, in our hearts, and I dream of the day when we can to return because if there is something that he enjoyed it is traveling and more if it is in the company of my family, how do we say, we are a chorizo ​​and where one goes we all go, and that is how our trips have almost always been all together, except when n It was for work, I know the day is near when I can give my family this trip.

I want to be able to take them to enjoy, I want to travel with them because for me they are these little moments that life is made up of, they are these little moments that create the best memories for us, those that are tattooed in our minds as well as this trip that remained in our lives as something unique.

For now I say goodbye hoping that you liked this little tour that I gave you through this beautiful state of Venezuela called Mérida, I also want to thank you for making me relive this trip that meant and continues to mean so much not only in my life, but in that of my family, thank you for such a nice initiative.

📸All photos are my property and were edited with the Polish Program, and I used Google translate.