Catatumbo Lightning
"The Catatumbo Lightning in Venezuela has captured me from the first moment I set foot in Ologa, the fishing village in the heart of Lake Maracaibo. What locals call the "Relampago de Catatumbo" is also known as the everlasting storm, raging on in up to 300 nights every year with intensities reaching multiple flashes every second at a time.Just 15 kilometers NW of the camp lies the one point on earth with the most lightning strikes, here up to 250/km2 are registered every year.
The Catatumbo Lighting is not just a Guinness World Record holder but also has been immortalized in the flag of Zulia, where people proudly call it the "Maracaibo Lighthouse" after saving Maracaibo on multiple occasions from nighttime ambushes of foreign naval fleets. But Catatumbo is much more than just lightning, it's an overall crazy place filled with amazing people, incredible wildlife, beautiful flora and unbelievable light scenes on an almost daily base. All these things coming together have made me fall in love with this place and after visiting 3 times I feel a deep connection to the Maracaibo Lake - It has become my second home. A ferocious and unforgiving home but the best home I could possibly imagine. This film shows the highlights of those three trips, all in a very cinematic fashion. Some of the lightning videos are indeed the real time, but many others are slightly shortened in order to look the most impressive, but everything you see in here did actually happen and wasn't altered using any After Effects etc."
This is Venezuela... Zulia... Maracaibo... My country... My home... My love...
It's impossible not to fall in love with this blessed land... How can I pretend not to be as proud as I am, of being a daughter of the most breathtaking and incredible place on earth, so full of natural miracles and wonders it's even hard to count them all... Enjoy!...
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Very mystical
But, what's causing all this lightening in that part of the world?
"Catatumbo lightning (Spanish: Relámpago del Catatumbo) is an atmospheric phenomenon in the country of Venezuela. It occurs over the mouth of the Catatumbo River where it empties into Lake Maracaibo. It originates from a mass of storm clouds at a height of more than 1 km. It occurs over and around Lake Maracaibo, typically over the bog area formed where the Catatumbo River flows into the lake."
Geez... I don't even know what "bog" means... Googling it in 3.. 2.. 1...
Yes... Watch the video... There are houses in the lake... That's why colonizers baptized my country as "Venezuela", which means "Little Venice"... When they saw the houses in the lake, they thought of Venice...
P.S. Speaking about having a free "perm"...
It's hard to express how grateful I am to live in a relatively small area of land, compared to other countries, that's blessed with such incredible amount of nature wonders...
I thought you couldn't translate it in English?
You're talking about a lake with houses in it...
You mean something like the lake Titicaca?
These are the "palafitos"... The houses built in the Maracaibo Lake...
I had to look again....Quite interesting Lightning...and just thought I should drop in and say Hello.
And yes... You have to learn it... But not only the National Anthem... You also have to learn the "Alma Llanera"... Our second National Anthem...
I would probably be too political and it's obvious which side I am on.
And let me explain it to you, the best way possible:
1) You don't "have to" travel one single mile... More like you are dying to...
2) It's not my parrot... It's my parrotS... As in t-w-o...
3) You don't have to feed my parrots... Just have to make their meal... They know how to eat...
God don't start GB, she would have to respond tomorrow after translating paragraphs.
Put in on, take a pic...
A picture says a thousand words.
No,no, not putin.
Wager = Bet, gamble
And yes, sweet Vierk... You can wager they do!...