Los Estoraques

This trip was made with a group of coworkers, in Ocaña a unique natural area in Colombia called "los estoraques" takes its name from a plant species called "Istoraque" (Styrax guianensis) today
 non-existent in the area for its indiscriminate use for medicine and making soaps. In the Storaques are observed desert characteristics product of erosion acceleration and a unique landscape beauty, for its millenarian formations. The wind and water have formed hundreds of geological forms among which there are columns, caves and innumerable pedestals.


We travel to the site by land, we travel by motorcycle, the recurring start in
The center of the city of Cúcuta towards the city of Ocaña, the trip lasted approximately four hours, we traveled early to avoid the vehicular traffic, since we had to take main roads, we made some stops to rest and eat a little.

We arrived at a house on the outskirts of the city where we waited for dinner, a typical dry bean soup. In the morning we made our tour through the natural area, the climate of the park is warm temperate, predominantly dry this added to the lack of rain most of the year give an average temperature of 22 ° in this place we did hiking we took pictures and in the night we made camping we finished our rrecorrido with a good typical food of the region as it is the "ajiaco ocañero" and we said goodbye to the region taking a tour of the city of Ocaña observing a religious monument the Virgin of light on the top of the city .

Anecdote

We started the journey through los Estoraques very excited by the structures that nature designs, we found ourselves on narrow paths and with bushes, a friend found a passageway a cave, excited we all wanted to enter it to see what we could find, after a few minutes we heard strange noises as something that crawled thinking it was a snake we left the cave quickly and one of my friends who was chubby got caught between the walls of the Estoraque was a funny moment by the panic, we wanted to leave and he did not let us, so among several friends pushed him and he could get out of the cave entrance.