The walk I'm going to share, I did on Sunday. But I thought it was perfect to be shared in the Wednesday Walk.
Last Sunday, my husband and I wanted to go for a walk somewhere other than the park near our house, and we decided to go to Parque del Este as I always call it, since the park is now called Parque Generalisimo Francisco de Miranda. I hadn't been there for a while. This is a large park in the east of Caracas.
The last time I went was during the quarantine. And at that time, the park was quite empty and many areas were a bit abandoned. I already told about that visit here.
This Sunday, on the other hand, the park was crowded. There were lots of people and the day was beautiful, although a bit hot.
We parked in one of the park's parking lots with the idea, to walk the complete circuit of trails in the park and also visit the adjacent Bolivar Park.
The first thing we came across was the replica of the Corvette Leander, with which Francisco de Miranda made his first expedition to Venezuela in the fight for independence.
The last time I visited the park, the corvette was very damaged and could not be visited. A few months ago, it was restored, and now it is open to the public.
You can get on it, but the queue to do so was quite long and under the sun. And we wanted to walk.
We are in the dry season so none of the trees we saw in the park were in bloom except for that orange-flowered Apamate which, although not very leafy, I liked the way it looked.
The pedal boats on the lake were also running, and it was great to see the park so full of life.
We tried to go to a park adjacent to this one that is across the highway, but there is a bridge that crosses it. However, we could not cross because the other park was closed for an official act.
I took this pic from the beginning of the ramp.
We decided to continue our walk through the trails of the park.
The park has huge green areas to enjoy and practice sports.
Or you can lie down in the shade of one of the many trees. Many people go there and have picnics.
Throughout the park, there are many kiosks like this one.
They sell mostly toys and drinks. I remember when my son was little we used to buy him toys to make soap bubbles in those kiosks.
There were people doing different activities and workouts all over the park.
And we even saw that the planetarium building was open and working. But the visit will be for another time.
We passed very quickly through the area where the animals are but they seemed to be very neglected, and we did not take pictures of them except for this iguana.
When we finished the circuit we were exhausted not from the walk but from the sun.
We walked about 2 km as shown in the screenshot of the Nike Run app. But even though it wasn't that long, we were exhausted from the sun. So we drove back home but on the way, we stopped at a fruit shop to buy a couple of Tizanas to cool down.
This is my post for this week's #wednesdaywalk challenge hosted by @tattoodjay in collaboration with #makemesmile hosted by @elizacheng.
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