La Llovizna

So, Saturday. I took a taxi to La Llovizna, a park on the Caroní River. I met two friends from Puerto Ordaz there, Edgard and Maria. Edgard is a seminarian, he goes to a seminary in Guatemala. The two times I tried to get the story on why he goes to Guatemala for the seminary I didn't understand and so gave up and smiled and nodded. Something about a scholarship. Maria is a friend who I met at a function at a church in Puerto Ordaz, she's an engineering student at university. Well it was raining when I first got there, and of course I wasn't wearing a rain jacket so I got soaked. Which was ok. We wandered around the park for an hour or two, it's pretty big and has a few large ponds/small lakes on the island. The main attraction is the view of the waterfall. There is a large hydroelectric dam upriver of the island (it powers most of this area of Venezuela, and also is sold to Brazil) , and a few hundred yards later a mid-size waterfall. It's more wide than it is tall but it's really cool. We could actually get really close to it which was fun. It was fun for me as we were walking around to think about how my friends who have come to Venezuela on the CDH trips have been right there where I was. A few of the lookout spots I recognized from pictures of their trips. I don't really know what else to say about the park I think the pictures will tell about it better than I can. 

Rio Caroní

From the top

Hydro-electric dam

Turbines inside those are spun by the water to make the energy

So La Llovizna is the green park on the river, I live NW of it in Guaiparo. The east side of the river is San Felix, west side is Puerto Ordaz with bridges connecting. Minneapolis/St. Paul anyone?