Country Info
- Caracas
- Capital
- Bolivar (VEB)
- Currency
- 23,916,810
- Population
- VE
- Country Code
Caracas Slideshow
Caracas
Travel Blogs from Caracas, Venezuela
Airports, Fishes and Beer
... the fight. The rest of the night, steak knife girl sat in a corner talking to herself. What a great night, we had beer, fags, and a our own Jerry Springer a la Caracas edition. Oh, I got bit in 28 places that first night. That wasn´t too ...
Trust no one here!!
... 2 or 3 more people there. I definitely get the impression that tourists simply do not come to this Caracas. Merida in the far west is Venezuela's tourist town. The swiss bloke is doing a similar trip to us. 5 of us immediately ...
Cliche Traveller?
... at a great cake shop and had incredibly indulgent cakes and coffees before using the subway back. Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas Angel Said showed me around his campus. Having seen a few English campus', and the wonderful ...
Football crazy, football mad...
... vs. Portugal quarter final of World Cup 2006 I will be able to launch into a very interesting story about a shopping mall in Caracas. We arrived back from Merida on the overnight bus with around 2 hours to spare before the start of the England game. ...
Getting out of Colombia
... ...). Once past these hurdles, it wasn´t too difficult to get out of Colombia and into Venezuela, but we almost fell foul of Venezuelan kidnappers at Caracas airport! This really friendly man wearing an official security ID (kindof) ushured us towards ...
Don't Go Out At Night
... of Venezuela but much of the rest of South America as well. It also happens to be the 200 year anniversary of Venezuela's independence from Spanish rule and so the main plaza and surrounding streets were decorated with red, yellow and blue banners. We ...
Farewell South America
... the 17th Feb this year. As excited as I am about touching down in LA and catching up with the closest of friends flying out of Caracas this morning left me feeling sad and a little lost. It was like I was leaving something behind and in a big way I ...
Letter From Caracas
... some of you already know, I am out traveling through South America this summer. I write to you from my first stop in Caracas, Venezuela. Here is my first impression: I´m not sure if God truly blessed America, but I can say ...
Up in the moutains of Colonia Tovar
4th July 2009 Cabanas Silkerbrunnen, Colonia Tovar, Venezuela It's cold and wet Maiquetia – Colonia Tovar -75kms yesterday we set off from Maiquetia around 7 and it was hot. After jostling with the early morning commuters along the ...
Nightmare in Caracas
... , it was due to the fact that so many couples were getting it on. Hot couples too!! For it must be said that Venezuela (or Caracas at least), EASILY has the best looking women in SOuth America so far. Their 9 miss universe titles prooves its not my ...
Fingerprinted but survived Caracas
... beaches area). But we did get to go up the nearest mountain in a cable car and (2100m high) and see fantastic views of Caracas and the Ranjitos (shanty towns) that surround it. Day three: we got up early to sort out our escape from Caracas - first ...
Caracas
... pics) we bought a few little things, had a nice look around Caracas, went up on the cable car and generally enjoyed the place. Caracas has been one of my favorite cities thus far, we love it here! Anyway, its only a brief stop here, we feel ...
First impressions of Venezuela
... there are 500 people sitting in chairs watching 4 weddings and a funeral with no volume in the dark !! Wierd !! BUSES in Venezuela: Well these are a treat!! The are driver by frustrated "F1 driver wanna bes", who like things to be "chilled out". Our ...
Caracas
... are wanting to get to Canaima and Angel Falls and also to sort other tours, we have been through the mill while in Venezuela and the following people and companies really helped. Ben at Osprey Expeditions in Caracas, despite our call at the last minute, ...
Country Number 5 - Venezuela
... that even with all this walking and cycling now and then - my fitness levels are pretty poor. Yesterday I flew from Santiago to Caracas (well actually Maiqueta about 26k from the capital). Flight was fine, food OK, and just 6 hours or so later I ...
surviving Venezuela: Caracas and margarita island
... can tell you from experience, its a top place and safe as houses if you keep your whitts about you...but Venezuala..especially Caracas (its capital)...well, even from travelers id heard nothing good about it! one of the more positive comets were "in south ...
Shake my Caracas
... revolutionary who led the bloodied uprising against the Spanish in the 1800s, and established the republics of Colombia, Equador, Bolivia and Venezuela. He is very much the hero in modern Venezuela, with every city, town and village, no matter how ...
Caracas Outside of the Hilton
Well we have spent two days in manic Caracas and thankfully nothing bad has happened, apart from the fact that at first count Monday afternoon I had 25 mosquito bites to Andy´s 2, someone please tell me how that is fair especially as I brought pretreated ...
Brief Stop back in Caracas
Our bus ride back to Caracas was uneventful, and mercifully comfortable, though neither of us slept particularly well. All the hotels in Alta Mira were full, so we allowed ourselves a slightly more upmarket option in Las Mercedes. We didn't do much in ...
Venezuela in a nutshell
... and move onto the next leg of our journey in Chile we can not help but reflect on our seven thoroughly enjoyable weeks in Venezuela, identify some of the uniqueness of Venezuela and the people that we really like and admit to our strangest moments. The ...
Caracas
Caracas, home to the most ever winners of the miss world competition. Unfortunatly I was only here for a few days but im sure they will get over ...
Joo pekna dovolena to byla
Isla Margarita si svou image nikdy nezlepsila. Dalsi plaz, kterou jsme si nejak nechali vnutit taxikarem (pac neznal tu, kterou jsem puvodne vybrala ja) byla strategicky umistena mezi letistem a pristavem. Nad hlavami svistela letadla, na plazi auta a ...
Erste Schritte in Venezuela
... Geld wechseln und zwar zum offiziellen Kurs von 4.28 (unter den Touristen auch Abzockerkurs genannt). Eigentlich wechselt naemlich in Venezuela niemand zum offiziellen Kurs, da man auf dem Schwarzmarkt sehr viel mehr bekommt. Zum Glueck wussten wir von ...
Caracas
Touchdown in South America! Arrived at the airport and went to the bank machine to take out some money which is in the local currency bolivars and had no idea what the exchange rate was...everything´s in thousands! So I ended up guessing it from the ...
Party Time...again!
Returning back to the big smoke I hooked up again with the guys I met in Los Roques....after a day at the beach we went to my first Basball game ever - it can really rain beer! After a delicious dinner of local cuisine at Mary´s, we hit San Ignacio for ...
The Ramonys
... ) 3 cities I would not visit again (you should not be influenced by my opinion, it is only an opinion) 3) Caracas, Venezuela 2) Phuket, Thailand 1) Hanoi, Vietnam Top 3 friendliest people 3) Croatians 2) Brazilians 1) Germans Top 3 ...
Caracas
A escala para Lisboa no aeroporto Simón Bolivar em Caracas não foi, mais uma vez, tranquila (como seria de esperar?). Primeiro onde fazer o check in (nós, franceses e outros com ar de perdidos) a perguntar em espanhol, francês, inglês ninguém no ...
Dramatikk i Venezuela
... en god natts søvn. Ingen av oss hadde noe spesielt ønske om å oppleve en av verdens farligste byer “by night”. Caracas er den byen i verden hvor det er flest drap / vold og ran. Til tross for en dag som skar seg i henhold til ...
