Venezuela Abroad Mountain Inspiration By Raven Smith Sunday was a grand adventure to my host family's farm in El Paramo. It's like one of those days you remember from your childhood when you just played and laughed and smiled as if there was nothing in the world you and your friends. I felt just like a little girl - carefree and alive. The drive to the farm was long and hard but the countryside was absolutely beautiful.
Life seems so much more relaxed and simpler here.
In one town we drove through, we saw little girls with angelic faces and jet-black hair, dressed in vibrant pink dresses and parading down the street. We walked up along the river and there were little waterfalls everywhere. They only grow in the mountains of Merida and nowhere else. When we reached the lagoon, we found two fishermen fishing for trout. But other than that, there was only peace and an immense quiet.