Country Info
- Caracas
- Capital
- Bolivar (VEB)
- Currency
- 23,916,810
- Population
- VE
- Country Code
Merida Slideshow
Top Hotels in Merida
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El Serrano Merida
5 reviews -
Centro Turistico El Encanto Merida
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Hotel Hospederia San Javier Merida
1 review -
Posada Los Bucares de Merida
1 review
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Hotel La Pedregosa Merida
14 reviews -
Posada Luz Caraballo Merida
9 reviews
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Estancia San Francisco Merida
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Hotel La Terraza Merida
2 reviews
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Posada Neya Merida
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Hospedaje La Florida Merida
1 review
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Hotel Las Lomas Merida
1 review
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Posada Parador de Los Pinos Merida
2 reviews
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Hosteria & Spa La Sevillana Merida
2 reviews
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Hotel Los Conquistadores Merida
1 review
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Posada Restaurante Rosa Montana Merida
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Hotel Belensate Merida
13 reviews
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Hotel Mintoy Merida
4 reviews
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Posada San Rafael del Paramo Merida
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Hotel Caribay Merida
2 reviews -
Hotel Paramo La Culata Merida
23 reviews
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Posada Turistica Aldea Vieja Merida
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Hotel Chama Merida
2 reviews
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Hotel Parque Turistico Apartaderos Merida
7 reviews
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Posada Turistica Tabay Merida
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Hotel Don Juan Merida
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Hotel Resort La Sierra Merida
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Posada Viejo Apartaderos Merida
1 review
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Hotel El Castillo de San Ignacio Merida
9 reviews
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Hotel Tisure Merida
11 reviews
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Nevada Palace Merida
3 reviews
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Hotel El Parque Merida
1 review
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Hotel Urdaneta Merida
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Hotel El Teleferico Merida
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Los Frailes Merida
11 reviews
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Hotel Escuela Prado Rio Merida
7 reviews
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Nidal de nubes Merida
2 reviews
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Hotel Espanol Merida
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Posada Casa Sol Merida
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Agroturismo Cabanas Montes Los Tatuyes Merida
7 reviews
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Hotel Glorias Patrias Merida
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Travel Blogs from Merida, Venezuela
Our expectations for this trip
This is a top pick! 6 months ago, on New Year's eve, we sat down, the 6 of us, and each told the others what our expectations and fears were about this year off together. Here is the summary: Fabyan (16): I want to see the world to learn and see new and old things, have ...
Walking on Water by Steve Dominey
This is a top pick! ... school teach? Ingrid: ¨I don´t know, like a normal school?¨ Sara: ¨Geography? This is a lake, we are here, Venezuela is 3 hours that way, subject finished.¨ Me: ¨History? This village was built many, many years ago. In ...
Death in the city
This is a top pick! Yesterday evening, a student was shot and killed at a protest in town. Just few hours before that I walked past the barricades and the burning trash piles in the middle of the street on my way to a Symphony concert. I didn't imagine it was quite that ...
Show us the money!
This is a top pick! Slept v well and had a great brekkie at the bakery near our hotel. Have a group meeting to discuss the plan of action. Have a few days here to do whatever before we go onto Los Llanos in the jungle. Some of us are going to Lake Maracaibo tomorrow to ...
Will I never learn my lesson?
This is a top pick! ... until she rolled over. haha. I´m that creepy person no one wants to sit next to on the bus!!! Anyway, so I got here to Merida...it´s beautiful. The trip looked a lot like Guatemala at first, but by the time I woke up in the morning we were in the ...
Close to trilingual!!
This is a top pick! ... I´m speaking a foreign language....just like I´ve got the mother of all weird accents. I had the BEST meal thus far in Venezuela today. It was this yummy chicken leg on a bed of mashed potatoes with a red pepper sauce....soooo good. The chicken was ...
The bad side of chicken.
This is a top pick! Today is my last day in Merida. Tonight I´m heading back to Caracas on the overnight bus. Should be lots of fun, although I have my sweater ready to counter the freezing conditions I expect to be subjected to on the bus. I´m sad to be finishing my ...
Oh, sweet Venezuela
This is a top pick! ... and her life, which happened to take place in here. I know where she's coming from. The situation in Venezuela, based on my observations of Merida and Caracas is more unstable than I imagined. It is in fact fukced up. The latest official number for ...
My teacher is a Chavista...what luck!!
This is a top pick! ... , according to her...and I tend to agree...even if he doesn't actually get more votes, he'll still be the next President of Venezuela). Then we did the usual back in time stuff. Damn past tense!! These next few entries might be a little dry, as I´m ...
This travelling thing...
This is a top pick! ... travelling isn't for me...at least not alone. Annoying thing to figure out a third of the way through your trip to Venezuela. Grrr. Don't get me wrong, everything is fine...just I'm not that excited about being here. Guess that kinda sucks. Like ...
Trading one storm for another
This is a top pick! ... . The nature is very, very beautiful. Ah, and I found out how much a litter of gasoline cost in Venezuela - between 0.7-0.9Bolivares - less than 50cents!!!, less than bottled water. For real. *** I would definitely reccomend the ...
Misty Mountains
This is a top pick! Would you believe that the Orinoco River, the eighth longest in the world, flows for 2,140 km through Venezuela with only one bridge spanning it? There surely must be numerous ferries connecting the myriad of towns and villages dotting its banks, but we ...
Uni town in the clouds
This is a top pick! ... . I've been here a few days now, and have been checking out the multitude of amazing tours available here. Merida is unlike anywhere else I've seen in Venezuela, and I like it. I've also signed up for some private Spanish lessons for all of next week ...
Crespo means frizzy in Spanish
This is a top pick! ... few kids deep before they know it, and they haven't even met me yet! The wolf whistle is alive and well in Venezuela. Walking past a construction site takes you back to a time before political correctness went silly. In a stroke of genius, someone ...
Adrenaline Rush!
This is a top pick! ... dinner... The next morning we tracked down a jeep to take us on a breathtaking cliff side hugging 4 hour trip back to Merida! During the following days we went paragliding from Las Gonzales a breathtaking 850 mtre 40 minutes flight down from the top, ...
So long Merry Merida
This is a top pick! ... in the same breath. Still reeling from the 13 past tenses found in the Spanish language, I offer a summary... A lot of people write Venezuela off, but it does have a lot to offer. Honestly? Most of the good stuff is natural beauty, and it's slowly ...
GEM IN THE ANDES
This is a top pick! ... that carried us away in their stacked hills climbing thousands of feet into the sky. A college town in girl-dominated Venezuela, Merida and its streets were an over-booked convention of pretty, long-haired Venezolanas in tight pants. I was like ...
The Andes
Sorry for the delay, but I´ve been quite drunk! I arrived in Merida yesterday after a 15 hour bus journey from Maracay. Had my sleeping bag out ready for the night bus only for the air conditioning to be broken! Slept 13 hours last night.........in a ...
Jeep-taxi-plane-smaller plane-taxi
... Off to the Venezuelan Andes. Mostly smooth travelling, despite the thermals rising up the mountains causing a somewhat bumpy approach to Merida (no prizes for guessing who was really enjoying this part!). The tiny airport, in the middle of the town, ...
The joys of paragliding
Just a quick update about what´s happening up here in the mountains. A load of us went paragliding on the 30th, a good buzz especially up in the Andes. Anyway we all landed safely apart from a Brit from Bristol who ended up flying into a mountain ...
Don Bosco
Hey Vil proeve at fortaelle lidt om Don Bosco, det boernehjem/drengehjem, som jeg arbejder paa. Det er for drenge mellem 7 og 18 aar. Nogle af dem har en familie (fattig) og bor paa hjemmet en del af ugen, mens andre er foraeldreloese. De boern som ...
Sidste tid i Merida
... og alle boernene var bare saa dejlige. Onsdag dag var vi paa tur med Eddy. Han koerte rundt og viste os forskellige sevaerdigheder i Merida, og han tog os med op til 2 forskellige bjergbyer. Om aftenen tog vi saa natbussen tilbage til Chichi. Det var ...
A perfect mountain town
... blankets. After breakfast the next morning the jeep driver came by, and we began the long and very bumpy trip back to Merida. I impressed Mark by managing to sleep through some of the trip, holding my head upright despite the bouncing. I am ...
Afsked og tur til Merida
... , da hun tog direkte fra isla Magarita til Caracas for at tage videre hjem til DK. Onsdag den 12 april: Den vaerste dag i Venezuela. Vaagnede kl 2 fordi guiderne og nogle gaester, som ikke er med i vores gruppe holdt fest med hoej musik. Laa derefter ...
Adventures in Merida
From Caracas we moved onto Merida, which is a small town quite high up in the mountains and is a very beautiful place. The main aim of going there was to do some adventure sports such as paragliding and trekking etc. We caught a bus from Caracas, ...
Paragliding over the Andes!
... Soy un pajaro!!! I AM A BIRD!!! What an unreal experience I had yesterday... Paragliding over the Andes of Venezuela! Volar en parapente... its called! It was exhilarating, amazing, beautiful, wonderful, incredible... every positive word imaginable! ...
Merida and around
... EVERYONE drives around here. There are cars everywhere for such a tiny place. I think in a few years the pollution in Venezuela is going to be horrific, which makes me quite sad to think about. Most countries down here don't have any ...
Messing about in the river
An early start (as usual), not entirely sure what the day had in store but it needed a good breakfast to get it started. The posada´s restaurant is excellent and the food was equally good, it looked like another couple also staying at the posada where ...
in den Bergen angekommen!
nachdem wir wieder mal eine nacht lang bus gefahren sind, sind wir nun endlich in kuehleren gefilden. die landschaft hier ist echt wunderschoen und die luft ist ... sauberer. nachdem wir gestern ein paar stunden am busbahnhof von maracaibo, der ...