#because when the Spanish got to ¿Maracaibo? they saw the palafito on the shores
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Venezuelan palafito baba yaga when.
Concept: Baba Yaga house walking around on chicken legs, being followed by one of those plastic Fisher-Price play houses on baby chick legs
#I don't know how well known of a fact this is outside of Latam#but Venezuela is called that#because when the Spanish got to ¿Maracaibo? they saw the palafito on the shores#palafito being that type of house built “on stilts” over relatively shallow water#and so to them it was a little Venice a Venezuela#or so I was told
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