[ESP] [ENG] Viaje virtual a La Gran Sabana. \ Virtual trip to La Gran Sabana.

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Virtual trip to La Gran Sabana.

Greetings friends, in this post I want to be your virtual tour guide and take you to visit the eastern sector of Canaima National Park also known as La Gran Sabana, which is one of the most visited tourist places in Venezuela, the first thing is to take a flight from your country of origin to the Maiquetía Airport in the city of Caracas and from there another flight of approximately one hour to the Puerto Ordaz airport in the Bolívar state.

Already in Puerto Ordaz, it is time to take a car or hire one of the tourist servers that are dedicated to make these tours, (this can be done directly at the airport) and leave by road to our destination, in this particular case in our virtual trip. I'm going to take you in my van. We leave the airport and head towards the Troncal Ten road and we go through the different cities and towns that are on the way to the great Sabana until we reach a place known as La piedra de la virgen, which is where the territory of the Canaima National Park in this sector officially begins, this place bears that name because, if you look carefully at the photo of the stone above and to the left there is a white spot that according to some people has the shape of the Virgin Mary, and that's why they call it. the stone of the virgin.

After this point we officially enter to the Gran Sabana territory and there are a lot of attractions during the tour but in this post I will name only a few, because I would not be able to name them all in a single post, after advancing a few kilometers we reached the rapids of Kamoiran, where there is a gas station and we can refuel and also has a very good camp and restaurant this is the first stop for most of the people that comes to la gran sabana.

Now I am going to take you to know the Kawi waterfall that is located a few kilometers further on, where we can observe the flora and fauna of this area and you can also camp here if we wish to do it.

Let's continue that there are more places to see, now we go to the Kama Falls that is further ahead, it is a spectacular waterfall of approximately 50 meters high, which is accessed from the top and can be seen from one side in a viewpoint as you can see in the photo on the right and you can also go to the lower part as seen in the photo on the left, but it is not a suitable place to to swing because there are many slippery rocks, If you want to swim you can do it at the top part of the river, but always away from the waterfall to avoid accidents, because it could be dangerous.

Let's continue that now comes a spectacular place called Quebrada Pacheco, a very popular place, it has a bar restaurant with excellent food and a family atmosphere, behind the facilities of this place there passes a stream where we can go swimming for a while, but as in all other places in this area, the water is very cold, a few meters further down by the river we reach a very beautiful waterfall where we can bathe with the falling cool water.

And to finish the tour of this area of La Gran Sabana i will take you to visit a very especial place which name is Quebrada de Jaspe, to get there we have to take a short walk passing some hills an a little part of forest until we can see that beautiful waterfall where that fresh water falls, but be careful because the Jasper stone is very slippery and it is very easy to fall, that is why in the lower part many people use it like a slide, which is very fun and we can also bathe with the water that is falling.

Jasper stone is very important in the culture of the Pemon indigenous people who live in the Canaima National Park and they use it a lot to make handicrafts.

At this point we are very close to Santa Elena de Uairen, which is the last city in Venezuela before reaching the border with Brazil and since we are so close, lets get there to get to the border between these two countries and take some pictures for the records.

Well friends, this is the last spot and after visiting it is time to go back , I hope you liked this virtual trip.

Canaima National Park has 3,000,000 hectares (7,413,161.44 Acres) and in this virtual trip we only toured a few places that are on the edge of the road, we still have a lot of more places to explore, then I will take you to other tours in the near future, keep in touch.

All the images presented in this post are my property, taken with the camara that I had at that time my Olympus VG-140, except for the screenshot of google maps.