“EL YUNQUE (THE ANVIL)” Hiking Tour

“EL YUNQUE(THE ANVIL)” Hiking Tour

Coming out of Baracoa's City or some chosen point, we went to the Community of Mabujabo placed to 6 km of the downtown to arrive to this place, elks,, it interbreeds in front of the locality's two important places, the first makes it out extractor of coconut oil, founded for French families between the centuries XIX XX, and the second best, the chocolate factory, founded in 1963 for Ernesto Ché Guevara. Leaving the road that leads up to Holguín's Province The Anvil takes a cart driver to Campismo's base itself to 4 km, this road is made in the main bordering the river Duaba in between plantations of different fruit trees where stands out the mango, the rose apple and almond trees and timber-yielding like the ocuje and the majagua standing out a spectacular front sight of the Anvil in all his dimension, another local attraction constitutes it the Malayan oven of Malaysian influence, technology utilized at the region to obtain departing from the coconut palm's fruit raw material for the obtaining of the oil of this fruit and utilization of the shell of the same to obtain activated carbon.

Already in the Campismo's base El Yunque (The Anvil) and with start at the reception center of the office of Flora's National Concern and Fauna begins a promotion to the top of the mountain with a height of 575 meters,, at a craggy terrain of half a complexity herself – tall, than it is quite slippery at certain stretches in season of rain, which are protected for banister natural and other ones constructed by the laborers that labor in this protected area of over thousand hectares, normally the temperature is on the 30 grades, relative humidity on top of the 74 percent, it the fact that it implies a lot of sweating, the most abundant plantation during the journey are the cocoa and the coconut palm in addition to typical fruit trees of the zone, all the cocoa observed during the journey is the bright footprint of the French colonists that settled in at those surroundings in 1791 escaping of the right now acknowledged Revolution of the slaves of Haiti, the aforementioned colonists and its slaves these dominated by them and his ample experience in these productions propitiated the development of the plantations of the aforementioned and coffee cocoa, issues.

Once an ample panoramic sight that you show to the front Baracoa's City, the Bay and the drainage of the rivers has Towrope and Duaba itself in the top of the mountain, to the left and behind the mountain that conforms the National Park Alejandro of Humbolt, something to stand out once in this place is the presence of a kind of palm known as coccotrina yunquensis typical of this mountain.

After 20 to 25 minutes to make photos or contemplating the landscape, the descent of the mountain is begun, that you last approximately 2 hours to get to the river Duaba exactly even a natural swimming pool of over 8 meters in width almost 4 of depth with very crystalline, transparent and not contaminated, important waters indicating than tightly an abundant fruits picnic of stations, excellent place for a second- air take before continuing the promotion or descent are tasted at a peasant's house in the center of the journey to rise or to descend.

It is important to indicate than the promotion and return of this excursion Duaba includes the step walking of the river compulsorily, that is unused of bridges, we specified the customer than the mountain The Anvil is the symbol of Baracoa's City, worldwide recognized.

We suggested for the customers that make a decision for this option to include in his baggage water, foods with candy and proteins, light clothing, caps or hats, tennis hard or blunt to go climbing and professional guide's services, an amusing and interesting excursion and all certainty and protection of his physical integrity guaranteed sandals to cross the river, in addition to capes or another protectors for the seasons of rain, to the customers.

We guarantee our customers a services of professional guide, a fun and interesting tour and all the security and protection of their physical integrity.

Mr Javier Rabasa, will be your local professional guide, with over 20 years of experience, with wide and profound knowledge of history, geography, flora, fauna and traditions of the area of Baracoa.

Itinerary details:

• Km's quantity of the journey: Approximately 9 km gone and I return
• Maximum height: 575 mtrs
• Degree of difficulty: I mediate Loudly
• Time of restroom at river: 30 min.
• Time of transfer in transportation: 35 min.
• Hour of Start: 09.00 hrs
• Hour back: 15.30 hrs