La Cueva del Guacharo :

Amid a diverse mountainous landscape near Caripe lies the famous Guacharo cave.

Today, only eleven kilometers of the inside of the cave have been explored, however it goes even further.

It is the biggest and one of the most famous caves in Venezuela. Its most unique feature is the huge number of birds who live inside, which the Indians have named “Guacharos”.

Like bats, these birds possess an ultrasonic orientation system, are the only vegetarian night-birds on earth and are found only in this cave.

The cave was explored 200 years ago by Humboldt. Later, Alfred Hitchcock sent a team to Venezuela to capture the sounds of the cave for his famous movie “The Birds”. Today, something similar is done with computers.

After a visit to the cave, we go through the tropical forest to reach the 1200m waterfall "La Paila" and afterwards we look at the beautiful place Caripe, which is rightly named "El jardin del oriente".