On the road to Piņango
Wednesday, December 1. 2004
Piñango, Venezuela (Jan 5, 1998 )
Wild horses in the “Páramo Andino”. The páramo is a high altitude (12,000ft) grassland ecosystem unique to the Andes of Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. The páramo is very beautiful and rich of many species that cannot be found in any other places in the world (endemisms).
I took this photo while we were traveling (on a very old Fiat 127) on a dirty road from Mérida to Piñango, a tiny village in the middle of the Andes. Piñango is a very remote place, and can be reach only with two unpaved roads, this one crossing the páramo, and another one passing through ravines so terrifying that the locals claim they dare to use it only when intoxicated by a sufficient amount of alcoholic beverages.
These wild horses where pasturing along the road, not very concerned about me walking towards them to take this picture.
