Venezuela is a country of great natural beauty with a tropical climate and of dramatic contrasts.
To make tourism in Venezuela can take us a lot of time, since has many places to visit. Either the forest, the plain, the beaches, the mountains and because not the cities, especially the historical helmet of each one of the states.
If we leave road toward the occident of the country we meet with the states andean: Merida, Trujillo and T�chira. Three states with a very pleasant climate that goes from the 12�C to the 22�C.
We will See the snowy crests of the Mountain of the Andes venezuelans, especially those located in the National park snowed Sierra, (Parque Nacional Sierra Nevada) where we find: The Peak mirror (Pico Espejo) to 4.675 meters; to which the longest cable car in the world arrives, since it travels 12, 6 km. from the city of Merida until the summit.
The highest picks in the park, and the only ones that are always snowy, are: the Peak Bol�var (Pico Bol�var) with their 5.007 meters and the Peak Humboldt, (Pico Humboldt) of 4.942 meters. Also, we can visit the Pick The Eagle (Pico el �guila). which is advisable to visit before ascending to the Pick Mirrow (Pico Espejo), to leave accustoming to the height and to not suffer bad of the Moor".
The bad of the moor is sickness due to the oxygen lack in the air that can take to the fainting. For that reason, counsel seeks advice that we walk very slowly, and to eat chocolate little by little; and given the case, to take a good one calentaito" , that it is, an alcoholic drink prepared by people of the place.
In Merida exist more than 70 lagoons of glacial waters; among those that we find: the Lagoon of Mucubaj� (Laguna de Mucubaj�), the Lagoon of the Eyeglasseses (Laguna de los Lentes), Black Lagoon (Laguna Negra), all in the state Merida, with smaller temperatures to the 11� C during most of the year.
We can rent a cabin with their chimney in any mountain town or to stay in an inn and being assisted by that people so cordial of the �ndes.
To make trips for the mountains in bicycle, jeep, to horse, on foot and to enjoy rivers of gelid and crystalline waters, it is it that more it attracts the tourist. To practice escalades from the basic levels until the advanced ones or to dare to fly in parapente constitutes a challenge.
We can go alone, if we have a good map, or to hire the services of specialized guides.
In Mucuchies it exists the Lagoon of the Hole (Laguna del Hoyo), Gavidea, The Heaps (los Montones). To arrive at the town of Tabay and to ascend until the thermal water or to the Park The Mucuy (Parque la Mucuy) where find kiosks to eat, a river fries and some flowers that are equaled to a rainbow. You can camp, provided we have permission of the guard parks.
In full city of M�rida we can visit the Square Bolivar (la plaza Bol�var), in in front of the Cathedral, to go to the Handmade Market, to the Diocesan Museum. To go to la Square the Heroines (la Plaza de las Hero�nas) and to buy the passage for the Cable car; that was inaugurated re in these days and whose cost, to the last station, is of $: 17.00. Cheer up to ascend and enjoy the trip among the mountains.
To arrive to the Peak mirrow (nparque Espejo) and to see from there the Peak Bol�var (Pico Bol�var). to Walk for the mountain and to feel the wonderful thing that to be in the silence.
Also from this city, call the City of the Gentlemen, we can visit the Ice crem shop Coromoto (Helader�a Coromoto), which presents 110 flavors of ice creams a day; and that according to the book Guinness of Records is the most famous Ice crem shop in the Continent, with its 550 flavors on the whole.
Another of the visits, almost forced, it is that of the Park of the Jets of Milla, ( Parque de los Chorros de Milla) with their spectacular cascade and their zoological one. or to Continue to the town of the Eaves ( los Aleros) where we are received under the tradition of half-filled of century, with their collection of cars, their typical marriage, their radio station. To ascend until the Pick the eagle (Pico el �guila) to go to Trujillo entering for Valera
The state Trujillo has heights that go from the 800 meters to the 1.600 meters above the level of the sea. This makes that the state offers to the tourist three types of climates: A tropical heat in the area of the plains; a spring temperature in the mountains stockings and cold in the moors
In Trujillo it is forced visit the Monument of the Virgin of The Peace ( Monumento a la Virgen de la Paz). This virgin, sculpted on a solid iron structure, it is considered as one of the highest statues in the world in their style, comparable with the Statue of the Liberty in New York or the Corcobado Christ in River of Janeiro.
Located 1.700 meters on the level of the sea, in the Virgin's hill Rock, place where the Virgin appeared in 1570. The monument has 46 meters, it weighs 1.200 tons.
She has a total of five miradors, accessible all for stairway: only to the first one that is in the knees you arrives for elevator, and it is to 18 meters high; the second, in the left hand is to 22 meters, the third in the right hand that sustains the dove, to 25 meters; the room, in the waist, to 28 meters; and the fifth mirador, in the eyes, to 44 meters high.
If there is good time one can see the city of Maracaibo ago, great part of the state Trujillo and it leaves of the Sierra Nevada
In T�chira, the warm views of the mountain and the moor melt with extensive rich plains in flora, fauna and rivers of strong flows, ideals for the sailing and the fishing. This frontier region, located in the western south part of the country, is also a region of contrasts. The fertility of its lands allows that the economy of the region leans on basically in the agriculture. For the fact of being a frontier state with the Republic of Colombia, it has generated an intense commercial activity. Their main cultivated is: coffee, potato, banana and yucca (cassava).
Point to visit is the Bridge Liberator (Puente Libertador). This spectacular engineering work, is the third more important hanging bridge of the country, National Historical Monument was decreed. It was built by the political prisoners of Juan Vicente G�mez r�gime (1912-1935). The Bridge Liberator (Puente Libertador) is on the river Torbes and it divides to the municipalities San Cristobal and C�rdenas; and to him young sportsmen attend to practice launching in benji and other disciplines.
Another forced visit the it constitutes San Cristobal's Cathedral. which began; being, in 1561, like a small hermitage that after the earthquakes of 1849 and 1875, it was modified four times, until being what presents us today. This church conserves the purest colonial type; their facade and towers are of Baroque style. To their side it was built the building of the Episcopal residence and the offices of the Diocesan Curia. In this church San Cristobal's images, The Christ of the Limoncito and San Sebasti�n are worshipped, the patron saint of the city.
Their tourist attractiveness find it in their beautiful parks national, true flora reservations and typical fauna of the region. Their mountains, moors, lagoons and the peculiar climate, they constitute more appropriate scenario for the practice of the ecological tourism and the adventure tourism, both guided to the conservation of the environment.
The state T�chira is a region where the big heights are the main characters. The mountains more resaltantes are The Pulpit (el P�lpito) with 3.912 meters, the Bad step (el Mal paso) of 3.850 meters, the Battalion (el Batall�n) of 3.507 meters, the Tam� and their 3.450 meters, the Moor of The black (el P�ramo de la Negra) 3.450 meters, the Buzzer (el Zumbador) and their 2.850 mts.
As for the falls of water, we have the Jet of the Indian, (el Chorro del Indio) the Jump The Stairs (el Salto de la Escalera (Municipality Uribante) and in Guachiqu� (Municipality Andr�s Bello).
Taking advantage of the abundance of the waters the has been built Industrial Complex Hydroelectric Uribante-Caparo to serve electricity to the area.
In some of their rivers it can be practiced the hunt and the fishing, like in the rivers Uribante, Caparo and Golden (Dorado). The Escalante is born in the Sierra of the Battalion (a Sierra del Batall�n) and the Moor The black (el P�ramo de la Negra) and the Quinimar� in the Moor The Tam� (el P�ramo el Tam�). Other rivers of importance in the T�chira are the river Torbes, the Black river and the river T�chira.
In the population of Capacho, recognized by their excellent coffee, we meet with a group of natural lagoons. We also find a park a zoological one a careless point, although it can stroll for their comfortable street. Capacho; highlights for its singular architectural beauty, its bridges, its student population and the natural parks.
Bibliography: Universal Almanac Navarrete 1998.
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