La piedra de Guatape (The Rock of Guatape)
I remember the very moment I saw it; I was getting out of the car, and as soon as I looked up, I could not blink for at least a minute, the stateliness of the massive black rock in the middle of the lake was astonishing. It was not even close to the rock I saw on pictures before, it was far better, and clearly bigger. The things nature can make are out of this world, I thought.
In the summer of 2015, I took an unexpected trip with my family to Guatape; we wanted to see something different, a place or a thing that we had never seen before, and La Piedra de Guatape in my country Colombia seemed like the perfect idea. La Piedra de Guatape is a stone surrounded by water and small islands in a region …show more content…
Once situated right in front of it, the size of the rock becomes intimidating and there is nothing similar to compare it with. According to the guide of the trip, the rock appeared thousands of years ago by a movement of the plate tectonics forcing the rock to break the ground appearing on the surface. The black rock is at least two hundred meters high, curved shaped and with a crack in the middle where the staircase is located. The Crossed stairs resemble the corset of a dress or shoe laces as one of the staircases is to go up and the other one is to go …show more content…
During the tedious and tiring climbing, people were breathing with their mouth leaving no space for a smile or a kind look to the person next to them, but their mood seemed to change when they reached the top; they are laughing and smiling to the cameras for a perfect picture with the breath-taking landscape. Situated meters down the top, the small, green and beautiful islands are surrounded by a wide greenish and calm lake making it look like surreal. The rock looks like a meteorite that fell from the sky in the middle of the lake breaking the land around it creating the small islands. The view is outstanding and inspiring, but not only that; the atmosphere around me is picturesque and warm, full of handicrafts and local goods for the tourists, and it is impossible to hide the excitement of the moment.
Nature never fails to thrill me; it offers the most amazing things in life and this is a prove of it. La Piedra de Guatape in Antioquia, Colombia is one of my favourite places in the world as it had a great impact on me; the feeling of being literally on top of the world is something that I have not felt since then and the peace and astonish that I felt when looking at the landscape are
I remember the very moment I saw it; I was getting out of the car, and as soon as I looked up, I could not blink for at least a minute, the stateliness of the massive black rock in the middle of the lake was astonishing. It was not even close to the rock I saw on pictures before, it was far better, and clearly bigger. The things nature can make are out of this world, I thought.
In the summer of 2015, I took an unexpected trip with my family to Guatape; we wanted to see something different, a place or a thing that we had never seen before, and La Piedra de Guatape in my country Colombia seemed like the perfect idea. La Piedra de Guatape is a stone surrounded by water and small islands in a region …show more content…
Once situated right in front of it, the size of the rock becomes intimidating and there is nothing similar to compare it with. According to the guide of the trip, the rock appeared thousands of years ago by a movement of the plate tectonics forcing the rock to break the ground appearing on the surface. The black rock is at least two hundred meters high, curved shaped and with a crack in the middle where the staircase is located. The Crossed stairs resemble the corset of a dress or shoe laces as one of the staircases is to go up and the other one is to go …show more content…
During the tedious and tiring climbing, people were breathing with their mouth leaving no space for a smile or a kind look to the person next to them, but their mood seemed to change when they reached the top; they are laughing and smiling to the cameras for a perfect picture with the breath-taking landscape. Situated meters down the top, the small, green and beautiful islands are surrounded by a wide greenish and calm lake making it look like surreal. The rock looks like a meteorite that fell from the sky in the middle of the lake breaking the land around it creating the small islands. The view is outstanding and inspiring, but not only that; the atmosphere around me is picturesque and warm, full of handicrafts and local goods for the tourists, and it is impossible to hide the excitement of the moment.
Nature never fails to thrill me; it offers the most amazing things in life and this is a prove of it. La Piedra de Guatape in Antioquia, Colombia is one of my favourite places in the world as it had a great impact on me; the feeling of being literally on top of the world is something that I have not felt since then and the peace and astonish that I felt when looking at the landscape are