A few meters above the ground.


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A warm greeting to the friends of this beautiful community who like photographs... today I want you to accompany me on a vertical tour of 12 stairs, each of them with 15 steps, and during the climb to the eleventh floor I will be able to show you how tiny we can be on this immense blue planet.


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It's not a good photo, but it was the highest one I could take.


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From these 12-story buildings I was able to take photos, and it was a good exercise for the heart...😅

Furthermore, there are things that impress me, and one of them is man's ability to adapt to living in certain ways because his world has been designed without many temporal evolutions, just like his mind, which is capable of normalizing that everything that happens and everything he experiences will always be fine.

I tell you that I almost lived my entire life inside "a box", or perhaps, something like a drawer...if you pay attention to the photos you will understand me.

I grew up in a district that was designed so that the houses were arranged in a vertical position, all the homes in this place are 4 and 5-story buildings. Some are smaller, and others are larger, with an average of 30 houses for each mass of concrete and concrete that you can see...perhaps we do not count more than 130 residential buildings plus two 12-story buildings, and that could seem very tiny compared to Beijing, but quite large when we exceed the number of inhabitants of the capital city of my province... could it be true?

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The structures are as simple and flat as the bunkers...only they are not underground, they grow towards the sky, and I don't know if they would have the conditions to resist many telluric movements, because on several occasions the earth has trembled very gently, but the higher the height, the glass and the walls vibrate with a strange noise that smells of terror...and yes, your legs also shake inside one of these boxes if you can't go down very quickly by the only stairs that are designed inside.

It is easy for outsiders to get lost among the blocks of buildings, and although the streets are well numbered, none of the bunkers have the old red and blue numbers anymore...they have been forgotten since the last paint that was given to them...also when it rains the color drags along the narrow smooth of the walls and many show off the raw cement with which they were mortared.

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The most beautiful thing about my neighborhood is that it is located in the southern part of the Sierras del Rosario and the Cordilleras de Guanihuanico, you can even see the mogotes of Viñales, have you heard of them? They are calcium formation from the Jurassic period, a perfect place for the maroons who fled from their masters during colonial times, because the area is full of galleries and caverns where rivers originate and flow, and the only dangerous animals are iguanas and the occasional hose chameleon that run away as soon as they see you... hahaha.

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But I am far from there, just about 22 kilometers away, even so, in the distance you can see the soft contour of the mountain tops, where you will only find strange paths and many families of Pinares, that is why my province is called Pinar del Río.

It's also a shame, because while I go up the stairs I only have access to the northern part, luckily, from there I can see how the area is bordered by palm trees and some deciduous ones, and beyond, the sinuous view of the mountains.

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Although,it is strange, at higher altitudes it seems that we are without spaces between houses and buildings, piled up like a favela, although perhaps the angles did not help me but it gives the sensation that there is a lack of air inside and between each concrete block.

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I couldn't take photos from the south part of the twelve-story building, there are no balconies from there, and I didn't dare knock on strangers' doors to do so, because they might think I was working as an undercover FBI agent...😎

I hope you liked my photos, I tried with the cell phone to find the best zooms, but with a professional camera, they would have been spectacular views...maybe one day I will be able to do it.

Thank you very much for reading me and visiting my blog...I wish you much peace and mental, spiritual and physical health.


Always very grateful for your reading.



The text is entirely my own
All photos are my property
Translation done with Deep Translate, free versión



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Thanks a lot!

Hey @adaluna1973 you are welcome.
Thanks for using @worldmappin 😘

I know how it feels to live inside a box house. I am in one at the moment since I work in a big city.
But such a calm town, very beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

In large cities you basically live in complexes of buildings moderately like these... and I don't doubt that there are certain comforts when you live in them, it's just that in these our architectural design used was the most linear and least harmonious in the world...😅...but without a doubt I have also been very happy here... Thanks for reading me.

You're not wrong about that!

I understand what you say about living like this in buildings, I lived 40 years in a house with a garden in a neighbourhood and then I moved to live in the centre of a big city... What a difference! You have some very very high views that impress, they are beautiful pictures!

Sorry for the delay without responding but being without electricity leaves you out of service, and it is really a terrible service but it is what it is... Living in buildings has a certain level of comfort, but they also limit the freedoms that you have in a little house... everything is in the ability to adapt that we have... I long for a little house hahaha... Thank you friend.

I could adapt to a flat but I prefer a house! Nothing to apologise for, I understand perfectly.

Living in a building like a house has its advantages and disadvantages, I have never lived in one, but I have a friend and she likes it a lot; quiet and with its space.

Sí, tienes algunas comodidades pero muchas limitantes, preferiría una casita para tener un huerto y algunos árboles frutales...mmmm me encantaría...tal vez valore mudarme un día...😅
Gracias y disculpa la demora, sin fluido eléctrico es un problema estar acá.

You portrayed almost the whole El Calero 😂 miracle my aunt's building didn't come out 🙂 as I liked it when I was a little boy I would go visit my aunt I still like to spend time there ✨🌻.

Mmmm si lo hubiese sabido estaría seguro en mis fotos.. aunque también estaba limitada por la única zona del doce plantas que pude tirar fotos...para la próxima seguro me sale ese edificio de tu tía...ya me dices...😅

Gracias y disculpa la demora estaba sabes sin fluido eléctrico.

I hate concrete boxes... Hahaha... Those low cost ones. But you got some great views and I like your speech, who touched the Jurassic? What? The maroons and... Well, haven't you thought about getting a little house in the country? With land to plant trees and a garden?

I know, I know...🤣🤣