Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela Travel Blogs

You never know who you might meet
Jun 3, 2006 (8 photos)

... mansion which has now gone to ruin. Tony has brought several black bin bags with him to clear up the rubbish which, typical of Venezuela, is strewn everywhere. He tries to tell us that as a provider of eco-tourist services he wants to tidy it up out of ...

Venezuela - Puerto la cruz
Jan 18, 2006 (6 photos)

Some pictures

Cruzing along the coast
Sep 10, 2006 (9 photos)

... us so was a welcome alternative. It was a Sunday, so at the bus terminal there was only one company going to Puerto La Cruz. We got some tickets, some breakfast, and hopped on the bus. Approximately half way through the trip it became painfully clear ...

Familia Carrera
Oct 21, 2008 (9 photos)

... ;te zijn! Nadat ze me daar 10x van hebben overtuigd vraagt Jose of ik geen zin heb om met hun mee te gaan terug naar Puerto la Cruz. Dat aanbod sla ik uiteraard niet af. Spullen opgehaald uit het hostel, en de rest van de middag gechilled met hun en de ...

El Carrrrrrrrrrrrrribe
Mar 9, 2007

... nichts. so ist mein eindruck aber nicht nur meiner sondern auch der, mehrerer kollegen die ich bisher hier getrofen habe. puerto la cruz ist als kleiner zwischenstopp geplant bevor es dann zu den vielen straenden an der nordkueste geht. der plan ist ein ...

This is more like it - nice towns and beaches
Jan 17, 2008 (3 photos)

After a brief stopover in Puerto La Cruz for the night and a great steak might I add, we jumped on a local bus to Santa Fe which is in a national park on the coast. By now we had started to work out that if you want to visit anywhere in Venezuela that isn ...

Puerto La Cruz and on to Santa Fe
Jun 5, 2008 (40 photos)

... and were looking forward to getting onto the beach after the jungle!! 27/05/08 - L Our bus arrived into Puerto la Cruz at 3am after being stopped by military check points (for passports etc) nearly every hour while travelling across the country ...

De cirkel is rond!!!
Jul 8, 2009

... gepikt met mijn noodpaspoort, en waar vervolgens alle bagage moest worden gechecked). Uiteraard zat de laatste bus, van Caracas naar Puerto la Cruz, vol met kinderen (minimaal 10) en dus werd er uiteraard binnen no-time gejankt dat het een lieve lust was, ...

FROM ROTIS TO AREPAS
Jul 22, 2002 (1 photos)

... Berna loved rotis, while his Trinidadian wife preferred the arepas of his land. I had my first arepa in Venezuela when I next woke in Puerto La Cruz. The arepa was like a snowball made of dense flour that somebody had popped with a mallet. This ...

Mochima National Park
Sep 21, 2007

Santa Fe

Ciudad Bolivar and Playa Colorada
Aug 10, 2005 (4 photos)

... this HOT city. The center is nice and well kept while the remainder of the city is a hole! We boarded the bus to Puerto La Cruz (another supposed dumpy town), when we arrived we headed to Playa Colorada which is said to be a nice little beach town, and ...

Mad taxi drivers and huge crabs
Nov 10, 2005 (3 photos)

Having left Caracas behind us we caught a bus to Canama and arrived a 5 am in the morning set with the task of finding a bus onwards to Santa Fe, which we had heard was a beautiful beach near by. So we hung around the bus station until it got light, then ...

Puerto la cruz
Oct 18, 2008 (6 photos)

... maar eens een boot gepakt naar het vaste land. Het was mijn bedoeling om naar Maracana te gaan, maar ik ben dus in Puerto La Cruz beland... heel gek allemaal. Helemaal omdat ik er pas achter kwam toen ik van de boot afstapte... even zo´n momentje van: ´What ...

The Beach!
Jan 21, 2008 (12 photos)

So we have been in this quite little beach town called Santa Fe for the past 3 days!  It is a fishing village for the locals and a sleepy backpacker heaven for us.  Every morning we are awoken by the lovely sound washing and rosters crowing and ...

Travelling South
Aug 3, 2008 (21 photos)

... Donkere wolken verjagen ons naar het vaste land, er is slecht weer op komst. Helaas is de wind gedraaid en ligt onze bestemming Puerto la Cruz precies in de wind. We beginnen met kruisen, maar als de wind wat zwakker wordt zetten wij de motor aan en varen ...

Back to the Beach!
Aug 29, 2004 (3 photos)

A quick 3 hour drive and finally the Beach was in site! But before we had even gotten out of the car, Amando had selected our location for dinner...and the 5 course Italian meal complete with antipasta, pasta, fish, prawns, desert, wine and a famous ...

Now thats what I call the Carribean
Aug 13, 2008 (3 photos)

... French Begian couple Veronique and Jerome. Our guide JoseLuis was dark-skinned, sinewy and relaxed looking. First stop was "La Psicina" for snorkelling. The water was turquioise and the snorkelling did not diasappoint. There was beatiful soft coral, hard ...

Santa Fe
Dec 4, 2006 (13 photos)

Ralaxing by the beach far away from the elections

Bab then bed!
Aug 3, 2007 (3 photos)

... well enough from our previous bus experience in Venezuela. Immediately we were pounced on by a chap selling tickets for a bus to Puerto La Cruz, in the bus station there really is no order to things so having done a previous ´reccy´, his priced seemed in ...

To Puerto La Cruz and beyond
Aug 13, 2008 (9 photos)

... liquid stuff and the fish market smells mixed with urine and other vile vapours put one appitite at bay totally. We arrive in Porta La Cruz and find a Por Pesto. This is a small mini van that look like the Taxi´s in RSA, except with doors at the ...

Puerto La Cruz
Dec 3, 2006 (2 photos)

Here is the Caribbean Sea

Stuck in Puerto La Cruz
Aug 23, 2008 (4 photos)

What a surprise we got when we arrived at dead on 630 AM for the 8 Am ferry as it arrived 3 hours late and the place was heaving with every sort of lifeform imaginable. We boarded the ferry with people pushing and shoving to get up the tiny staircase at ...

Venezuela
Sep 24, 2007

Venezuela 2005/06

Margarita Island cont.
Sep 9, 2005

... which was the only type of tree to survive the Hiroshima bombing. It was amazing, they had plants from every climate in Venezuela, from dry desert to a lush rainforest. They showed us the cactus that tequila is made from, the aloevera plant, orchids, fruit ...

The Queue
Aug 5, 2006

Queued against the best to enter the Guiness book. Rocked up at 18:20 and stood in a queue of 50 people for our Express 1st class tickets, got to the desk at 23:30 and received tourist class on the tradicional (slow) ferry, which surprisingly only takes 4 ...

Puerto la Cruz
May 28, 2007

... ´s home and we interacted with their kids.  Life seems so simple out there...in fact, around most of Brazil and Venezuela it seems simple.  I am saddened to see all the americanization going on in both countries - there is unlicensed american ...

Queuing for a new world record
Aug 5, 2006

Ferry

Santa Fe, Mochima
Feb 17, 2008 (12 photos)

... acho und haend ein Tag det verbracht. Mer haend noed wuerkli viel meh gmacht, we am Strand entlang z'laufe und z'aesse. Uf Puerto la Cruz haemmer sowieso noed welle. S-Spezielle a dere Stadt isch, dass di Riiche a Kanael wohned. DSas heisst, dass die vo ...

Avoid the maggots!
Dec 4, 2009 (12 photos)

As well as being a tradtional fishing town, Santa Fe is also one of the gateways to the Mochima National Park which consists of 36 beautiful keys, most of which are uninhabited. Local fisherman set-up tours, so I paid 40 BsF ($8 at black market rates) to ...

Puerto la Cruz
Sep 26, 2008 (5 photos)

A few pics from Puerto la Cruz