Laguna de Mucubají...

My family is from a small city in Venezuela called Mérida; which is located in the beginning of the Andes Mountains. To get to the city, which is 10 hours away from Caracas, you have to go up and down a huge mountain. I'm used to this long trip, I've been going there since I was a newborn and I can sleep the whole way without any problem. However, this time we were with Gabe and we wanted to show him as much as possible. He has been to Venezuela a couple of times and he has been to Merida before but we flew instead in 2007. We stopped a couple of times, including my favorite stop: The Mucubají Lagoon (which means "Place with Big Water" in the local indigenous...