Country Info
- Caracas
- Capital
- Bolivar (VEB)
- Currency
- 23,916,810
- Population
- VE
- Country Code
Venezuela Slideshow
Top Hotels in Venezuela
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Hotel Guaparo Inn Naguanagua
17 reviews -
Hotel Klein Dorf La Colonia Tovar
8 reviews -
Eduard's Hotel, Suite & Resorts Macuto
15 reviews
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Cabanas Micata Merida
1 review
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Hotel Hospederia San Javier Merida
1 review -
Posada Los Bucares de Merida
3 reviews
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Hotel Margarita Lake Plaza Porlamar
43 reviews -
Posada La rosaleda Los Roques National Park
25 reviews
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Caracas Residencias Anauco
2 reviews
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Hotel Paseo Las Mercedes Caracas
27 reviews
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Plaza Catedral Caracas
4 reviews
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Trinitarias Suites Barquisimeto
25 reviews
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Hotel Restaurant El Triunfo Valle de La Pascua
2 reviews
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Miramar Village Playa el Agua
21 reviews
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Centro Turistico El Encanto Merida
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Hotel La Pedregosa Merida
14 reviews -
Posada Luz Caraballo Merida
9 reviews
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Marbellamar Hotel & Resort Margarita Island
21 reviews
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Hotel Maria Luisa Porlamar
26 reviews
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Posada La Gotera Los Roques National Park
21 reviews
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Hotel Coliseo Caracas
3 reviews
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Hotel Plaza de Venezuela Caracas
15 reviews
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Plaza Palace Hotel Caracas
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Hotel Cumanagoto Premier International Hotel
25 reviews
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Hotel Ole Caribe Maiquetia
29 reviews
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Flamingo Beach Hotel Pampatar
68 reviews
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Guacamaya Caribay Hotel and Beach Club Playa el Agua
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Hotel La Terraza Merida
2 reviews
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Posada Neya Merida
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Margarita Princess Margarita Island
6 reviews
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Posadas La Plaza & Las Palmeras Los Roques National Park
3 reviews
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Centro Uslar Suites Caracas
1 review
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Hotel Continental Altamira Caracas
18 reviews
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Hotel Residencias Las Taparitas Caracas
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Posada Las Trinitarias El Cardon
12 reviews -
Estancia San Francisco 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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Perla Palace Hotel and Casino Margarita Island
1 review
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Macanao Lodge Isla El Gran Roque
21 reviews
Venezuela
Travel Blogs from Venezuela
El Coņo De Madre
... of view but I manage to get the gist of what they have to say; 'Chavez is a crook', 'the whole thing was obivously rigged', 'Venezuela is soon to become another Cuba', 'it's gonna take more than an election to get rid of this guy', 'time to start thinking ...
The joys of paragliding
Just a quick update about whatīs 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 ...
FROM BRAZIL TO VENEZUELA IN MINUTES
... . David explained that we had to go back to Brazil the next day and sort out our passports and then re-enter Venezuela. Utterly confusing but hey ho we were knackered and we could deal with this tomorrow, meanwhile we needed something to eat ...
America Rules the World from a 62 ft catamaran
... , heading back to Caracas' Maiquitia airport for our 40 minute flight to the Archipelago Los Roques islands, nestled off Venezuela's northern Carribbean coastline. William stopped off at the famous Plaza O'Leary so Ciaran could get photos.... this plaza ...
Wildlife Safari in the Llanos
Hello again, As promised, here are some details from our Los Llanos trip. We have more pictures to add (scenery and wildlife and the such), but here are some photos to appease family :) One of the great things about this trip was that it was an ...
Busing it to Venezuela.
... took a bus from Santa Marta to Maracaibo. The border cross was surprisingly straight forward, we had heard it was a nightmare with Venezuela immigration going through bags with fine tooth combs, our bags didn't even have to come off the bus. We were also ...
Caracas
... could only be paid in cash. We later found out this was not the case, becoming a pain because foreign exchange will not accept Venezuela pesos. So with 10 minutes until boarding I was running around the duty free shop like a headless trying to spend ...
Anacondas, Caymans, Capivaras and more
... a week in Merida (a little longer than anticipated but not regretted at all) we left for Los Llanos, the plains of Venezuela with Carlos (our guide), Areena and Hetti, (two dutch sisters) and Svenne and Anna (couple from Sweden). We packed ourselves into ...
Oerkentur i Coro
... og et fantatisk dyreliv. Orinco Detaet, en stor jungle. Merida en bjergby oppe i Andesbjergene. Gran Sabana, det forsvundne land. Flade bjerge som ligner maanelandskab. Og nu har vi ogsaa vaeret i en oerken. Venezuela har simpelhen alle former for ...
Paradise Found
... as we got chatting to Trevor and Mandy (real names Oli and Adele) from Manchester, who had flown to Isla Margarita (Mallorca of Venezuela) with.. wait for it.. First Choice on a charter flight! Ahhh! Evenings whiled away at a wicked bar on the beach, ...
in Venezuela angekommen
hey! wir sind in venezuela. ist zwar bewoelkt, aber extrem warm. also echt tropisch. schwuel und alles. naja, wir wollten so schnell wie moeglich aus der stadt raus. also haben wir bei ner tourist info gefragt, wo der bus nach maracay faehrt. die haben ...
Purgatory
... got us to Puerto Ayacucho, where the bad road ends and river passenger services begin. Located on the Orinoco River separating Venezuela from Colombia, it was here 16 years ago that Jan, my sister, and I had landed after getting a ...
Last day in Venezuela
... chaos for which Caracas is renowned. On the plane out of the country, I reflected that despite warnings of how dangerous Venezuela was, we had a month without incident. Final thoughts All in all I enjoyed Venezuela and found it a real eye ...
Itīs All About the Journey
Hola Yáll, I am in Cartagena, Colombia enjoying the vibrations of this amazing Caribbean town. I will tell you more later. But for now, I leave you with another Caracas experience: On my second day in ...
Back to the big smog
Sun and sand now behind us, we find ourselves, once again in Caracas airport, which we know and loathe! Our attempt to find TAP failed, since this wasnīt a day they had flights, obviously there was no one who worked for them... weīre slowly getting ...
Christmas by the sea
So I've left Ciudad Bolivar and am now on the North coast of Venezuela in a little town called Puerto Colombia. Spending a lot of the time burning my Gringo skin on the beach during the day and getting drunk in the evenings. Beers cost around 30p so I'm ...
And so it begins...
So after months of strenuous preparation (not really!) the show is finally on the road. Starting right where I left off: Venezuela. For the first few days I've been hanging around Caracas to get my dollars swapped on the "streets" (actually ...
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
De sidste dage i Merida gik meget, meget staerkt. Om loerdagen moedte vi paa El Hoyo Del Queque en fyr kaldet Eddy. Hans band havde spillet paa diskoteket tidligere den aften, og han inviterede os til hans koncert den foelgende dag. Vi faar konstant ...
Dinosaur Hunting
After I filled a diaper following the Angel Falls flight, we decided to do something Iīm a lot more keen of: walking, or rather īletīs carry some heavy gear up a mountainī trekking up to the top of Mt Roraima. Mount Roraima is the highest of a group ...
A perfect mountain town
Before we left Merida, I really wanted to go up the Teleferico, which is the longest and highest cable car in the world. The four stations take you 12.5 km to the summit of Pico Espejo at 4765 metres in the Andes. We were at the bottom by the ...
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 ...
Siempre hora pica en Caracas
... dark, but the view was still good. There was an exhibition up there with information on tourist destinations in Venezuela and around South America which was pretty handy. There were a group of Brazilian dancers performing which entertained ...
Puerto Colombia and Choroni
... it was full enough to leave. Now, we should point out that there are your common-or-garden variety luxury buses in Venezuela, but for short trips they have some pretty amazing specimens. Old american school buses seem to be the order of the ...
A long drive
This is a top pick! On New Years day, we left Los Llanos and started our two day drive across the country to Ciudad Bolivar. Leaving the camp, we came across an amazing sight -- birds. Thousands upon thousands of birds, all in one small place, all startled into ...
Min mor i Venezuela
Loerdag den 3. juni kom min mor til venezuela. Hun ankom til caracas lufthavn, hvor jeg skulle ind og hente hende. Startede min rejse kl 6 fredag morgen. Jeg tog med en baad ud til hovedfloden og ventede paa den offentlige transportbaad, som jeg sejlede ...
Hola from Venezuela!
... . PO sits where two rivers join so the amount of water is large. We did learn that the various hydro power plants sprinkled around Venezuela provide 80% of the countries power. Wish the US could do that. We then got on the 12hr bus ride down to Santa ...
and the work begins (yeah right)
While you are all up in the states working, weīre down here in 85deg, partly cloudy, pleasant breeze, taking mud baths for our completion and laying in hammocks. My, itīs hard work. Our volunteer work here is a mixed bag. We can do what we want from ...
Caracas, What a wonderful place.
01/06/2008 - T We arrived in to Caracas a couple of hours before dark. The Lonely Planet, as well as other travellers, had informed us that it was far from safe, gangs, guns etc. so we got straight on a bus and then the metro (very ...