Dear Friends of Steemit
In family a few years ago had been making different visits to tourist sites, religious, parks, plazas and others and this little or practically nothing affected the pocket, since the Bolivar that is the local currency maintained a certain position against the dollar, reaching to acquire the basic basket, pay for public services, education and recreate for that reason friends of steemit at that time in which we were rich and we did not know how to do tourism in Venezuela which is a country that is located in South America, towards the Caribbean Sea, approximately 912,000 square meters, without exaggeration and not being Venezuelan is a beautiful land full of friendly people and wonderful places where I visit as beautiful colorful villages that give this land that cheerful, friendly and cordial touch, The Venezuelan Andes is full of villages with a very cozy mountain climate, surrounded by a beautiful nature and still preserved despite the Construction boom and population growth.
 ** Niquitao Trujillo **
A small town that is 1:30 minutes from the capital Trujillo, with a climate of about 20 degrees of a very small population and with two great natural attractions such as paillas de niquitao and tits de niquitao, both considered monuments natural
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** Bocono Trujillo **
Nice town that is only 45 minutes from the city of Valera Trujillo, very friendly and cordial people, surrounded by nature and places of tourist vivid as are the lagoons of the courtyards, the trapiche of the nails, its bolivar square and the artisan market.
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** Plaza las Heroínas Mérida **
In it are the bronze statues of the brave Merideñas women who helped our Liberator, to be saved from the royalist troops, this square is beautiful with internal music, surrounded by hotels, inns, craft markets, restaurants, taxi lines, and just in front of this square is the first station and ticket office of the longest and highest cable car in the world, as is the cable car system of Mérida Mukumbari
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** Merida Aquarium Park **
In this small park friend of steemit you will find varied species of fish typical of the region as well as foreign areas, inside this park you will find a café, and a craft market as well as in front of the trout square, where you can not stop going without a photograph of the site
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** View to Pico Bolívar Mérida **
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This view can be found from any point in the city, but in particular it was from the entrance of the zoo jets of miles.
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** Cathedral of Merida **
The Cathedral of Merida is one of the most beautiful churches in Venezuela, although it can not be attributed a particular architectural line, since it is made up of an eclectic mix, its beauty perhaps is given by the spirit of peace that is felt within the enclosure, this beautiful church bears the name of the patron saint of the Merida state as is the Virgin of the Immaculate, and the Vatican II declared it Minor Basilica.
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** Museum of Science and Technology Mérida **
It is located on Boulevard Cinco Águilas Blancas with Avenida Andrés Bello, Central Sector, Urbanización las Tapias is a museum that appeals to both adults and children as it is endowed with interesting attractions. Promotes the adventure of knowledge with topics such as The Solar System, The Human Organism, Chemical Reactions, Physics, among others. It has a special earthquake simulation room where you will find everything related to earthquakes, likewise you can live the experience of sharing with several Dinosaurs manufactured following the principles of robotics.
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** Trolleycable Merida **
This belongs to line three of the massive tromerca system, which connects the city of Mérida with the Chama basin, a popular area of ​​the city, although it is a very small and short-lived cable car where you will find the conquistadores square, with A beautiful view of the Sierra Nevada, and it is a great adventure to approach it.
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** The Grandfather's Dream Park **

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It is an attraction for children on the road that leads from Merida to the Sierra de la Culata, it is quite cold to be more than 2500 meters high, is composed of a set of small houses, have an excellent cafe for adults. This place is wonderful because of the environment that surrounds it, full of trees, good weather and a nature to beg.

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** Paramo la Culata **

The Páramo la Culata is located about 1 hour from the city of Merida is an existing paradise in this city since since the beginning of the journey along the road there are many beautiful places full of crafts landscapes and parks for the recreation of the family and especially surrounded by quite nature really beautiful.

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This mountainous paradise full of cold and nature that only surprisingly surprised, the visit falls in love and want to return, in the tour we can see these beautiful trees covered with stick beard and orchid bushes.

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 Some of the beautiful places for the little ones of the house we have the dream of the grandfather that is an Andean town all in miniature and I tell you that just as the little ones have fun the big ones too.

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We can not overlook the beautiful view from the butt of the peak Bolivar, which is great and the day I visited there was a snowfall in that highest mountain point in Venezuela.

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Its spectacular vegetation full of very peculiar flowers full of beauty

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**El jardín botánico de Mérida Venezuela**
Se encuentra en plena ciudad en el sector conocido como santa ana vía a la hechicera es un fabuloso sitio del esparcimiento familiar para estar en contacto con la naturaleza y el medio ambiente rodeado de un clima de 16 grados aproximadamente, en el encontrara diferentes especies de plantas así como sitios para disgustar un café y conversar con tu familia o amigos y para lo que les gusta la aventura y la adrenalina cuenta con escaleras y puentes colgantes y paseara el jardín botánico desde las copas de los arboles... 

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**El pueblo de LAGUNILLAS**
Se encuentra a 25 kilómetros de la ciudad  en ella existe esta laguna que recibe por nombre URAO, según sus pobladores la misma tiene encantos y traga personas cada año si no la obedecen o la irrespetan, la misma es visitada por cientos de personas por su paisajismo y por tener sitios de comida y atracciones infantiles, en ella me encuentro con mi esposa y hija de visita y ya en la puesta final del sol decididos sacarnos esta foto que quiero compartir con esta comunidad

así mismo les quiero relatar lo que yo escuchaba sobre esta laguna desde niño cuando nuestros padres decidían pasear junto a mi y mis hermanos, en una oportunidad fuimos a un pueblo llamado Lagunillas Queda a aproximadamente a 25 minutos de la ciudad de Mérida Venezuela , en dicho pueblo hay una laguna llamada  LA DE URAO, recibe ese nombre por etnias indígenas que habitaban en el pasado en dicho sector, alrededor de dicha laguna hay variedad de sitios donde venden comida típica de la región así como recuerdos  y hay parques infantiles y kioscos  con estufas para realizar sancocho, asados  o la comida que en familia desean compartir como ya se los relate anteriormente.

En una de las orillas, observe niños y adultos bañándose en la laguna y de una vez le comente a mis padres si me podía bañar y de una los dos al mismo tiempo me dijeron que NO, porque esa laguna era encantada y tenía en lo profundo una serpiente que se tragaba personas y no encontraban ni el cadáver, yo quede así como que no entendía si tragaba personas porque habían bañándose hasta niños en ella.

Ya adulto e realizado varias visitas a dicha laguna por sus parques y porque se disfruta en familia pero nunca me e bañado en ella, pero si había escuchado y leído en los periódicos que moría ahogado fulano en la laguna de URAO, no era tan seguido pero si más o menos era un ahogado en ella una vez por año, tal como lo manifestaban los pobladores de esa región, comencé a buscar información sobre ella y me entere que es una de las pocas lagunas de agua salada existente en el mundo y de que existían muchas historias sobre ella pero todas concluían en que moría aproximadamente  1 o 2 personas por año ahogadas en ella y era personas incrédulas al encanto de la misma y que la desafiaban porque la comunidad de lagunillas dicen que la laguna no hay que llevarle la contraria porque sino mueres en ella.

Una de las leyendas sobre esta dice que esta laguna de URAO es hija de otras dos lagunas que se encuentran en el mismo municipio pero en altitud mas elevada en un sector llamado la trampa, y que una vieja que habitaba cerca de ella le ofrendaba en un ritual gallinas a dichas lagunas y que como en el mundo actual y con modernismo ya nadie le ofrenda nada a esta laguna por lo tanto ella misma decidía tragarse personas.

En todo este relato no sé qué exista de cierto pero lo que si sucede es que es interesante conocer la historia de nuestros antecesores, porque eso nos marca la dirección hacia dónde vamos y que todo este folklore es interesante porque marca la vida de los que habitan en Lagunillas estado Mérida con su historia sobre la LAGUNA DE URAO.

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** The Urban art of this city **
Walking through the center of this city I found myself facing the Plaza Bolivar that this type of art that is monstrous and wonderful to see how they do wonders from scrap metal.

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In this you can see a dinosaur, also made with screws, spark plugs, ro lines, steering gear box, which is discarded in vehicle workshops, which if they are not melted again for metal processing, are highly polluting to the environment .

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In this picture apart from being able to appreciate my beautiful family, we can see how an urban craftsman made a cute gorilla the size of a statue, with car tires already discarded and next we see a mosquito carried out with discarded pieces of vehicles such as chains and spare parts. the address box.

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In these last two photos, we can see the development of a spider and a snake with car tires and motorcycles already discarded and now converted into all beautiful sculptures.

Friends of steemit, this type of work considered as urban art is very beautiful and healthy for our environment imagine if this were more supported by governments we would have less waste and that many of them were converted into art in museums of all the cities of the world promoting thus the artistic tourism and at the same time like recreation for the familiar enjoyment

** Burra Taxi **
In the Merida moors, to be a little more specific near the stone chapel built by Mr. Juan Feliz Sanchez in San Rafael de Mucuchies is this unique donkey with some clothes glasses and a sign that says taxi, is for many a tourist attraction to be photographed with this animal ....

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** The Longest and Highest Cable Car in the World **

The Mukumbari cable car system or Mérida cable car system takes you from the city of Merida from 1660 meters above sea level to 5007 meters above sea level in just 50 minutes, this is modern and full of beautiful landscapes in each of the stations until you reach the snow of Venezuela in Pico Bolívar

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# Margarita Island
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One day together with my wife we ​​planned to visit Margarita, one of the first stops we wanted to make was to visit the basilica of the Virgen del Valle. As well as going to a mall (Sambil) to walk a bit through the city, go to the popular markets such as conejero, as well as enjoy the beaches and their hotels

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When we landed at the Santiago Mariño international airport that supplies margarita I felt a great enthusiasm, a great vibes and joy to know what this place offers. In it, a man in charge of transportation was waiting for us, who offered the tourist package that would take us to the hotel.

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Upon arriving at the hotel lobby we had a special reception and then we were located in the room and there began the adventure of being in a city visited by Venezuelans and strangers, and have an all inclusive service.
Walking a bit around the hotel and since I am restless we decided to go up to a small mountain and the view was wonderful to watch the sea and as I had my wife next to me I can not stand and kiss her.

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Within the hotel facilities we had restaurants, bars, snack, gym, beach, theater, massage center as well as sports entertainment for adults and children.

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Our experience in Margarita City was wonderful, I managed to observe the details as well as the culture of this place and buy some souvenirs for my family. I do not know if we will return again because the economic situation of our country does not prevent them from doing so, however, I have good memories in mind, especially because I was able to attend with my wife and our daughter, my daughter, as well as my sister-in-law. and a friend where we had a very good time.

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** Temple of the Virgin of Coromoto Guanare Venezuela (Patron of Venezuela) **
In my visit with my family to the temple of the patron saint of Venezuela, the Virgin of Coromoto which is located in the city of Guanare edo Portuguesa, just 20 minutes from the aforementioned city, it is built on a plains savanna field and that on several occasions the stamp that appeared to the Indian Coromoto by a beautiful and brilliant woman who told him fence and throw water to the whites on the banks of the river Guanare, which was taken several times to the cathedral of this city by people and religious of the moment disappeared and returned to appear in the savannah where this temple is currently built, this large-scale work built by democratic politicians in Venezuela at the time and inaugurated by Pope John Paul II in one of the visits to this country.

Here are some of the pictures I take with my family in that place.

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The Photos all of my Autoria

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