Natural Crafts Venezuela

Under (seven) falls - salto Ucaima, salto Golondrina, salto Wadaima and salto Ground are the only ones to wear a name - from the Río Río, this lagoon is a feast for the eyes, the camera's lens and a swimmer despite its dark waters. Its water is not dirty, it is stained by the decomposition organic material that the river takes with it. Some see its beach as the most beautiful of Venezuela… we too.

This natural (turtle) monument has three native cemeteries, rock paintings and petroglyphs. Inparques members offer their Services for guided tours. For information, please contact the regional directorate.

From November to April, colonies of pink Flemish rose from the Island of Bonaire. Gulls also, des, etc. It's the night that the lagoon becomes magical, its isolation transforms it into a fantastic planetarium. Transport. To ask Arquimedes de la posada, he can take you in 4 x 4 (1 hour) or by boat (2 hours).

A small quiet beach awaits you, ideal for dipping.

It's a 15 m high drop that finishes its race in a huge, dark, dark basin. It is to discover in the middle of the day to appreciate the sunlight that penetrates between the trees. Quite magical.

In the 1960 s, only one Condor (Vultur gryphus) had the pleasure of flying in the Venezuelan sky, all were exterminated. The mission was then to incorporate the emblematic vulture into the Andean sky. We must remember that the Condor is on the badges of Bolivia, Colombia, Chile and Ecuador. Today 5 condors imported from Argentina fly up to 10 000 m in total freedom. The male that you will see in the cage answering the name of "El Combatiente" shares his prison with a female "Anicsi". The members of the association decided to offer him a company so that the two new lovers would breed.

This natural monument was declared a national park on July 15, 1975 in tribute to the famous technologist Alexander Humboldt. The average temperature of 181 ha is between 18 and 19 ° C. Scientifically known as Steatiornis Caripensis, definition of the bird hosted and reproduced in the cave. These specimens live in symbiosis in an obscure, protected and humid zone, feed fruit and build their nests on the walls of the cave walls. Histographie reveals that, in 1977, Francisco de Ybarra y Herrera, bishop of the diocese of Saint-Thomas-de-Guiana, was one of the first people to explore the cave. But there are still historical facts: prior to colonization, the natives visited it.

From 1657 onwards, the Franciscan Capuchin missionaries discovered it at the evangelization of Alanya Province. Humbold visited her during his expeditions in 1799, as shown by a plaque dedicated to the great man (to venture further, enlightened cave fans must apply for a permit in Caracas in Caracas). The author says that he travels 472 m to reach a giant stalactite, "El Castillo" (the castle). It was in 1855 that Agustin Codozzi travelled the cave in its entirety to reach the "No silence" and the "Salon de los Pechos".

During heavy rains, from July to September, it may happen that the bed of the river déborde and flooding a good part of the cave, making the visit impossible. A very good path matching the cave, accessible from 4 to 77 years. During the rainy season, a pair of trainers will be more adapted than your Teva sandals. Finally, the use of flash is forbidden for the first 800 metres.

Indeed, the guácharos, animals photophobiques, have wards completely dilated by the darkness and light of your device blind blind to lose any marker! They then drop against the walls of the cave and die. In the cave, the use of oil lamp in discrete light is tolerated. The largest cave in Venezuela is also venerable, 130 million years old, and definitely deserves displacement. Of the 9 000 m of galleries, just over 1 800 m are visible.

Your walk (sometimes slippery) in the cave will be enliven by the strange forms of stalagmites and stalactites. They form figures - or shadows - as varied as breasts, King Kong, a mushroom, a palm tree, a pelican, an elephant head or a couple of lovers. It's really fascinating!

You will pass from the room assourdissante of the guácharos to that of Silence, to reach the room of the "Pechos" breasts. But for now, you're in the lair of the photophobique cave: Steatornis caripensis. This barbaric word means etymologically "bird of Caripe oil", guácharo for the intimate.

He lives only in the dark, reaches 1,10 m tall and has very little utiles eyes since the volatile moves, like a bat, by emitting ultrasound. At night he leaves in the national park looking for seeds that he feeds.

These are the same seeds that he rejects, after digestion, in the cave and which germinate a few days, until the lack of light becomes fatal to them. The particular ecosystem of the cave is also made up of mice, crabs, fungi, spiders, frogs, bats and other graceful creatures.

A sign indicates Playa de Uva. You will reach a beautiful and long beach with coconut trees and perhaps even some surfers.

Although it has a name from the Caribbean Indians, this beach has nothing to threaten. On the contrary, you can easily fall under the charm of these two bays separated by a small piece of sand, immersed at high tide. The sand is partly black, it comes from the sand pulled by a small freshwater river coming from the mountain. Probably the most beautiful of the area's beaches.

You can see directly with the pémon community of the lagoon to find a guide that organizes the visit of this fall that is 1 hour walk, by car ten minutes. Sakaï-Kepa means "martin-fisherman".

This excursion can be scheduled in the day starting from the lagoon. You can see beautiful landscapes, but as they are the same to reach the Salto Angel, better to go during the good season to the end of the effort and offer itself the famous waterfall. To enjoy the very repeating Cattleya labiata (Mossiae), you must go between the end of April and June. Let us remember that this is the country's national flower.