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This picture shows Embalse del Peñol seen from the stairs leading to the top. It was taken on a travel to El Peñol, Colombia, Central&South America. It is one of the 8138 of travel photographs you can find on Traveladventures.org. You can click on the picture to see more pictures of El Peñol. You can also send it as a free electronic postcard or download it for free, by following the links under the picture. Alternatively, you can follow the tags under the picture to find other travel pictures of a particular theme, or switch to another language. Enjoy your travel with pictures from all over the world!

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Once I saw El Peñón from a distance, I could not get my eyes off this gigantic rock formation defining the surrounding landscape; the rock was begging to be climbed.
I decided to get off before I actually reached the entrance to the climb of El Peñón, and walked up a muddy hill on the northern side. At first, I wanted to find a way around the base of the rock directly towards the entrance, but all the paths I tried seemed to lead nowhere. Instead, I decided to walk around the base of the enormous rock formation counter-clockwise. This had the added advantage that I got a glimpse of the surrounding landscape: houses on the lake, farmers working their land, unpaved country roads leading to the hills in the distance. On my left, I always saw that gigantic block of granite, and as I walked, the shape changed, from an elongated shape towards an oval one. When I reached the road leading up to the entrance of El Peñón, it was elongated again.
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