Galipan another blessing of mount Waraira Repano

Among the Goodness of Waraira Repano National Park we recommend going to Galipan, a beautiful town located in the mountains, is a hose hold touched by God, for Families or couple is just fantastic...

 Photo: Press 

 How to get to Galipan? Very easy in Caracas you can reach via the cableway installations of the Waraira Repano’s Cable car System, park admission costs 75bs (Park subsidized by the Venezuelan State for the Promotion of the tourism) riding a cable car to the top of the hill and you are 30mins away from your destiny and a spectacular scenery.

 Once in the top of the Waraira Repano’s Cable car system. I recommend walking to the Humboldt hotel and then grab the jeeps that lead to the village of Galipan.

(Humboldt Hotel (Photo: World Radio)

By road, either from Caracas or from La Guaira you can grab your personal vehicle and drive to Galipan. In both cases, only the uses of four-wheel traction vehicles are allowed. If you go from Caracas, by the way of Cotiza (street Forestal with Penalver), go through the posts of the national park Rangers, Llano Grande and Clavelitos located just above, where the road Los Venados begins, nice area for amusement and administrative headquarters of Waraira Repano National Park.

(Formerly known as El Ávila National Park). Once past Clavelitos, follow up until you reach a crossroads : the left path descends to the area of San José de Galipan , then continues the descent to the coast. The path to the right leads to a new intersection, the one on plaza of the Virgin in Guayabo Mocho. At this point, if you go down the left path you will reach the top of Galipan, the San Isidro sector. If you take the right path, going uphill you will reach the recreational facilities of the cable car

system. Is important to remind drivers that at the end of this road, near the cable car facilities, there are no adequate parking spaces and up loaders are forced to put their vehicles scarce and often in difficult open space to the side of the road. Otherwise, the road is paved and in good conditions, but is narrow and has steep slopes with sharp bends. Remember it is a busy route on weekends. In public listed is a terminal mass transit that will take you into Galipan and Los Venados. If you raise from the Central Coast, you can enter Punta Mulatos or also from Macuto, up the Garden of Stones Marinas Soñadoras and through San José de Galipan.

Trails in El Avila (El- avila.com Photo) 

Trails in El Avila (El- avila.com Photo) 

 Hiking through multiple pathways within the park is one of the activities that the people from Caracas love doing in El Avila. The most commonly used perhaps, is the path which starts near the Hotel Avila in San Bernardino, up the Ranger station (PGP) Loma del Viento towards the Cross and PGP Papelón Ávila, passing through the antennas of Los Mecedores to reach the Hotel Humboldt, or even to reach Los Venados to take the road of Los Pinabetes or Guayabo Mocho , which comes very close to the plaza in the proximities where the Virgin is sited.) There are other paths; such as leaving from El Camino de los Españoles and passing through the Topo Infiernito up until you reach Galipan. However, if you are not acquainting with the routes of the mounting, don’t go by foot.

 In Galipan there are excellent inns with a homely treatment (the price range between 800 and 2,500 Bsf), in most of these inns you can enjoy the sea view from the inns, which is pretty magnificent.

 The important thing is that if you want to spend a weekend different I recommend the benefits of Waraira Repano and its majestic view.

Medanos La Soledad for the holidays:

Edith Parra sent us to quebellaesvenezuela@gmail.com her beautiful review of Medanos La Soledad:

For lovers of nature and adventure in the southwest of Venezuela amid the great of the Apure plains,


a huge dunes filled with wonder residents and visitors visiting Santos Luzardo National Park, also known as National Park Cinaruco - Capanaparo or Los Medanos de Soledad, this name is for its resemblance with the dunes in Coro, Los Medanos de Coro. Its immense shoals of sand move steadily through the intervention of the wind and qualify the place to be in the middle of a sheet full of vegetation and nearby rivers, such as Cinaruco and Capanaparo .

 The lower reaches of these streams allow the abundance of fish Pavon, Arrau turtles, and the Orinoco crocodile, endangered. Also, you can see some endemic bird species, more than twenty migratory, such as herons, overcoats, storks and imposing Jabiru. Among the mammals there are jaguars, capybaras and camerudo deer. This allows diverse wildlife allows the contemplating tourism, as the place has become a kind of station of interest not only for tourists but also for scientists and bird experts who have the opportunity to study behaviors of Venezuelan species.

 A beach in the Venezuelan plains 

 Los Medanos La Soledad has become a space to enjoy the sun and sand in the middle of the Venezuelan plains, as they are at the edge of the road.

 In rainy season, between May and December, these dunes are fill with water in the lower part making a kind of natural spa. There people can enjoy a swim in a freshwater beach along the mountains of sand this is also known as Playa Llanera, bringing visitors at this time of year.

 Dunes that inspire

 Tourists that are destined to go to Medanos La Soledad, may stroll through the Cinaruco River, the plains and also enjoy " La Ruta de Gallegos ", a historically known path in the region thanks to the novel " Dona Barbara " written by Don Rómulo Gallegos who was inspired by this area when writing the book.

 This wonder of nature is located in La Soledad, Pedro Camejo town, on the road leading from San Fernando de Apure to Puerto Paez, a journey of about two and a half hours. For this holiday season, you cannot miss visiting Los Medanos La Soledad. Walk and glide from its high mountains of fine sand, together with the enjoyment of the evening will be a unique experience that cannot pass by.