Country Info
- Caracas
- Capital
- Bolivar (VEB)
- Currency
- 23,916,810
- Population
- VE
- Country Code
Venezuela Slideshow
Top Hotels in Venezuela
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Imperial Hotel Porlamar
14 reviews -
Posada Dona Carmen Isla El Gran Roque
19 reviews -
Dakota Suites Caracas
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Hotel El Arroyo Caracas
3 reviews
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Hotel Santa Fe Suite Garden Caracas
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Campamento Canaima Canaima National Park
2 reviews
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Hotel Minerva Cumana
7 reviews -
Gran Hotel Delicias Maracaibo
7 reviews -
Hotel Descanso Tropical Juan Griego
5 reviews
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Casa Margaritena Pampatar
3 reviews
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Hosteria & Spa La Sevillana Merida
3 reviews
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Hotel Mintoy Merida
4 reviews
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Posada San Rafael del Paramo Merida
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Tropical Refuge Margarita Island
82 reviews
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Margarita International Resort Porlamar
115 reviews
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Eco Inn Caracas
5 reviews
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Hotel El Paseo Caracas
3 reviews
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Hotel Suite Caribe Caracas
2 reviews
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Royal Hotel Caracas
5 reviews
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Hotel Patrick Juan Griego
83 reviews -
Hotel Hacienda El Portete Choroni
14 reviews
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Hotel Belensate Merida
17 reviews
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Hotel Paramo La Culata Merida
24 reviews
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Posada Turistica Aldea Vieja Merida
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Villa Gaviota Margarita Island
5 reviews
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Stauffer Hotel Margarita Porlamar
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Posada Gremary Isla El Gran Roque
18 reviews
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El Condor Hotel Caracas
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Hotel Fioremar Caracas
1 review
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Hotel Tampa Caracas
6 reviews
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Shelter Suites Caracas
28 reviews
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Posada Angostura Ciudad Bolivar
1 review
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Casa Chiara Juan Griego
2 reviews
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Hotel Aguamarina Higuerote
14 reviews
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Hotel Caribay Merida
5 reviews
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Hotel Parque Turistico Apartaderos Merida
7 reviews
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Posada Turistica Tabay Merida
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Posada La Cigala Isla El Gran Roque
57 reviews
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Hotel Grand Galaxie Caracas
3 reviews
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Hotel Tanausu Caracas
3 reviews
Venezuela
Travel Blogs from Venezuela
When Angels Fall
... jungle, apart from the river we steamed up and and the large rock faces! I feel amazing, I am in the middle of the Venezuela jungle beneath the tallest waterfall in the world! This trip just gets better and better!! The longer I stare at the Falls the ...
This is a top pick! 
Wasting away in Margaritaville
This is a top pick! ... , it didn`t take too long to confirm that there isn`t anything too exciting about this city (as a sidenote, I must comment that Venezuela cities in general haven`t been terribly impressive....). The downside to that fact: we`ll be here for the ...
Merry Christmas!
This is a top pick! ... as it turns out... almost. We started our day in a beach town, then drove many hours to a campground in the middle of Venezuela. The length of the drive changed repeatedly -- it would be 13 hours, then it was supposed to be only 8. Once we ...
Kids shouldn`t have guns
This is a top pick! Leaving Merida, we started our drive towards the Los Llanos wildlife area, where we would be doing a few days of a safari of sorts. Getting there, however, involved some driving and a few interesting stops. Our first stop was in the town of ...
Ice Cream!
This is a top pick! ... ;reasonably long drive, we finally arrived in our next destination -- Merida. Merida is probably the most hyped town in Venezuela, if such a thing is possible. If you´re going to go to Venezuela, it seems that people presume you`re ...
Going out with a bang
This is a top pick! ... (the 30th) we left Santa Domingo with an additional guide, and set out to explore Los Llanos, which is a grassland savannah in Venezuela known for its wildlife. We started fairly high in the mountians, so we had a scenic drive down to lower and ...
Angel Falls
This is a top pick! ... the end -- we saw Angel Falls. Although the Los Llanos proved to be a plesant surprise, our main reason for heading to Venezuela (aside from its location between Colombia and Brazil) was to see Angel Falls. Angel Falls was `discovered` by an ...
Caracas
This is a top pick! ... heading to buy baseball tickets. In the rest of Central and South America, soccer is the dominant sport. However, in Venezuela (and, to a degree, Nicaragua), baseball rules. So while we were in Venezuela, we opted to check out a game. ...
Christmas at the Beach
This is a top pick! The first stop in our "official" tour through Venezuela was the beach town of Puerto Colombia. We arrived here after a few hours of very twisty roads. We`re traveling in a rather large "truck" (with space for twenty odd people, their ...
Border Crossing
This is a top pick! Killing time in an internet cafe in San Cristobal, Venezuela, waiting for our next bus. We made it across the border without incident. ...
VENEZUELA, 2ND TIME AROUND
This is a top pick! ... shoes, ´cuz you´re in Venezuela! And bend your neck down like David and I or a turtle! The Top 5 Best Things About Venezuela! 1. THE MOST FUN COUNTRY - Practically all anyone wants to do here is be your friend, drink some beers, go dancing, laugh, ...
IZAC AND MARIA-ALEJANDRA GET HITCHED!
This is a top pick! The day before the wedding, David and I went to get our suits. The Venezuelan suits rarely came close to my wrists. I zombie´d around the shop like Frankenstein for kicks; I looked like a vagabond. The day of the wedding, Luisa appointed my shaggy ...
MORE VENEZUELAN SMILES, AND THE ROAD TO COLOMBIA
This is a top pick! ... by the country's lawless guerrillas. She even went so far as to tell of a bad experience she had once in Venezuela's capital, Caracas, which was like bringing up crime in Columbia, South Carolina. I was very concerned about guerrillas encountering my ...
THE FIESTA DE LOS TAMBORES
This is a top pick! While in Barquisimeto, I'd called to the girlfriend of my pal, David, as I'd been invited to. Luisa picked up the phone. Doing my best latin romantic David impression, I said, "Hola, mi florita preciosa lindissimita, es tu novio en Trinidad ..." ...
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 ...
Camino a San cristobal
Cuando volviamos desde Merida a San Cristobal apsamos a un pueblito en el camino que se llamaba San Pedro del Rio. Un pueblito hermoso de estilo colonial donde todas las casas eran ...
Into South America
...without any bags. Arrived in Caracas today but Jenn's bags decided to spend an extra day in Canada. They will come in a day or so. We then flew over to a town called El Vigia - pronounced more like El Ba-hee-ah. Albaro, our guide, ...
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 ...
Vida in Venezuela
... , we both caught our first piranha, we tasted capybara for the first time and Karen caught her first freshwater stingray. Vida in Venezuela’s wildlife capital was amazing. As we left our vida in Venezuela, even though we were stung with s $15US ...
No rafting at the Rafting Lodge
Water levels were too low for actual whitewater rafting, so instead we climbed a wall, did some zip-lining and then self rappelled down the canyon wall and swam in the river. Jenn made friends with the parrot, who only spoke in Spanish or whistling. ...
Paul the Cowboy
I rode my first horse ever today here at the ranch. It was certainly not one of the Arabian Stallions that the owners breed, but whatever, it was more than whatever I must've done at the Calgary Stampede. We rode for maybe 2 hours through the ...
WARNING: boring entry alert
Still in Coro. Bridget and I are on a bit of a downer today as we have both finished books and decided to do something while we are here, only to find that, in fact, there isn't much TO do in Coro. So we have got some money out and are getting the ...
Atrevete!
So I disembark and contrary to the hundreds of Caracas horror stories I´ve heard I'm through immigration in a flash and soon find myself in an air conditioned car on my way to a fiesta. I quickly realise how terrible my Spanish is trying to communicate ...
Simon Would Be Disappointed
... , charming old home and we booked our Angel Falls trip through the manager, a Belgian and ex pilot who after 7 years in Venezuela thought it was time to move on. The knife scars he bore from street muggings were an indication of the insecurity ...
Jungle Bound
Ciudad Bolivar proves to be a very popular destination from Caracas so we had to head to Puerto Ordaz (a large domestic airport serving a host of airlines, but only a single baggage carousel!). 1 hour taxi ride later (Martyn sleeping most of the way!) we ...
La Linéa
... US$! So off I went, no time/balls for taking a photo of all the cars that had been impounded for trying to leave Venezuela with more than one tank of petrol… off on a quest to pick up additional passengers for the journey – a young ...
Brig and Barbs remake "the terminal" in Caracas
... We consummed vast amounts of coffee, ate a subway (ham and cheese, sweet honey mustard. we noted different salad opportunites in venezuela. good info i know), mourned our lack of reading material and played a lot of card games. 6.00 pm: taken ...
Jeep-taxi-plane-smaller plane-taxi
After a good night´s sleep it was time to leave Camp Casita. The small matter of paying was brought up, these guys don´t take credit cards and we didn't really want to pay cash since it´s harder to get hold of than an honest Gringo!! After a painful ...
Venezuela may never be the same again
Hola mes amigos, well i´ve almost survived Venezuelan, headin to Cuba tomorrow so just one more night of good behaviour. Venezuela is a pretty cool place and we ended up doing alot that we intended. First off when we arrived into Caracas we headed east ...