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Estuve bastante emocionada por subir a la cabina. Entramos y recorrimos el camino hacia donde se toma el teleférico.

Y finalmente nos montamos. Llegmaos allí a las 6:30 pm ya que queríamos visitarlo de noche. El recorrido desde tierra hasta el pico de la montaña tiene una duración de 15/20 minutos. Allí hace bastante frío entonces es importante subir abrigado. La vista desde la cabina es bastante bella, y ese día había un atardecer hermoso.

Entonces, llegamos finalmente al pico y allí hay varias actividades, como patinaje sobre hielo, tomar chocolate caliente y comer fresitas con crema. Hay gran variedad de dulces para comprar y consumir allí mismo. Lo que a mí más me gusta es la caminata con el frío. Allí también se pueden comprar accesorios, los más populares son anillos y collares con nombres o iniciales.

Una de las cosas que más me gustá llamí mi atención fue el diseño del lugar, al igual que su estructura. Al llegar, en el estacionamiento se puede ver la palabra VENEZUELA formada por luces enormes con forma de cada una de las letras.

_{Este era uno de los pasillos para caminar al llegar, gracias a luces se ven reflejados los colores de la bandera de Venezuela}

En serio recomiendo este paseo a quienes vienen de visita a Caracas, es una gran experiencia especialmente si se está en famlia, verdaderamente imperdible.

Gracias por leer!!

English version

Greetings to all the travelers in the community! This week my family and I decided to visit El Avila National Park, officially known as Warairarepano, located in Caracas, Capital of Venezuela. The Avila mountain is well known for the different activities it offers, from hiking to the cable car. Both ways of climbing it lead to the same goal: the peak of Avila, the summit. Where the great Hotel Humbolt is located.

Although the cable car station is located in the city of Caracas, the Avila Mountain (Warairarepano) extends all the way from the north of Miranda State to the south of La Guaira State.
The Avila is also called the Lung of Caracas, because the Avila provides fresh air to the city.

_{The cable car Warairarepano was inaugurated in 1955, put into service under the presidency of Marcos Perez Jimenez, but was closed in 1989 due to the deterioration and malfunctioning of the same, it was not until 2001 that it was reopened under the name of Parque Avila Magica by the company Inversora Turistica de Caracas, However, in 2007 the assets of the company passed into the hands of the National Government and became part of the People's Ministry for Tourism (MINTUR), it was then when it was baptized ¨Warairarepano¨.}

A little of the history behind the name Warairarepano

This hill was known as ¨Warairarepano¨ by the Caribbean ethnic group, who were the inhabitants of the valley of Caracas, this name can be translated as ¨The wave that came from far away¨ or ¨the sea made land¨. In the indigenous mythology, this mountain did not exist, and everything was flat, which allowed to see the sea. However, one day the tribe offended the Goddess of the sea, and she raised a great wave to descend on them, the people knelt down and begged for her mercy, and that is how the great wave that was going to destroy the people, became the great mountain, since the Goddess had forgiven the offense.

Weeks ago my family and I climbed le Avila walking the mountain, and I must admit that it was quite difficult, at least for me, the idea of that climb is to get to the top, which usually takes about 5/6 hours depending on the performance of each person, but we could not complete it, we got to the first stopping point, the viewpoint of Sabas Nieves, and we turned back. So this time, we decided to go up in a comfortable way, by cable car!

_{What is a cable car?
The cable car is a means of aerial transportation, it is based on cabins (here in Venezuela we call them foniculares) that hang from cables that are in charge of moving the cabin forward. You can say that it is like a cable subway, which in fact exists here in Caracas.}