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Embalse del Peñol seen from the top of the Peñón

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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.
Once I reached the parking lot right under the Peñón, I realized how popular this place must be. Many tourist stalls were selling the usual stuff, but I walked straight to the entrance, paid the fee, and started climbing the 649 steps to the top. After a local, Luís Eduardo Villegas López, first climbed the rock in 1954, stairs were made in a crack in this otherwise perfect granite boulder, and in parts they are even one-way stairs. Inevitably, there are several religious statues on the rock. Sooner than I expected, in less than seven minutes, I reached the top, and climbed the last stairs to the roof of the building. Here, I spent some time enjoying the sun and the marvellous views over the surrounding landscape, defined in large part by the artificial Embalse de Guatapé, which came into existence after a dam was completed near Guatapé in the 1970s. Apart from the annoying insects, the top is great, and I stayed longer than anticipated, and totally undisturbed. Observing the surrounding landscape, I still wondered how it could be that this single granite rock was here, while the rest of the landscape consisted of green, rolling hills. A whim of nature?
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