Country Info
- Caracas
- Capital
- Bolivar (VEB)
- Currency
- 23,916,810
- Population
- VE
- Country Code
Caracas Slideshow
Caracas
Travel Blogs from Caracas, Venezuela
Venezuela - A visita inesperada...
Pois é, 1 hora de atraso na saída de Lisboa, motivos técnicos diz a TAP... Meia hora de atraso na chegada a Caracas, Venezuela. E lá se foi a escala... A TACA/LACSA (Lineas Aereas Costarricenses) deixou-nos em terra (faltavam 40 ...
Venezuela
... Sunday 22nd Well, needless to say British Airways messed me around. Bigtime. After several calls to Britain, Spain & Venezuela I couldn´t even be told which continent my bag was in. Customer service was appauling - I was left to fend ...
Caracas
... hill, although we can find the buildings they are all padlocked and we cannot find a walk so we just carry on and head towards Caracas, the capitol. We were thinking that as it is a very busy town they would be sure to have a parking lot for heavy ...
all roads led to
heading north at last....that bus with leather armchairs.....and try as i mighti end up in bloody caracus!!!!! but not to worry straight out again towards colombia.............nope......sold out tickets so dragged across to the unofficial buses....not ...
Beaches, major cities and stunning wildlife
... time on the beach while watching the small crabs run up and down the beach. Leaving Playa Colarado we visited the main city of Caracas before once again heading for the sea. This time we went to the sleepy town of El Choron near Puerto ...
Coastal Explorer in Caracas, Venezuela
... Venezuela turn into a dictatorship? Or will the American government step in and create war? The people of Venezuela are worried for both. Trip Experience Caracas is a city of five million inhabitants and is built on numerous hills in a valley along ...
Day one - First two hours
... Still I did console Lea (considerate boyfriend that I am) by telling her at least I had MY tickets. We eventually arrived in Venezuela safe and sound and caught a taxi straight to the Hilton which we are staying in for two nights courtesy of Lea's ...
In and Out as fast as we could!
Arrived into Caracas around 11:30 after the worst night sleep in a deserted Miami airport with CNN screaming from the speakers in the terminal. Of course my bag, was one of the last ones off! I finally cleared customs and there was a smiling ...
First place or ninth place?
According to the various results you find on Google, Caracas (capital of the "Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela") is awarded anything from the 1st to the 9th place in the ranking for most dangerous cities in the world, with a stunning result of 130 ...
Caracas
... . I'm off now for a short 8 hour stop in Madrid and then ill be back to Sunny Sunny Ireland Lovely!!!! Conclusion Venezuela : 3.5/10 Prob rise to 5 if i saw Angel falls plus The Red ...
Ermmm still in Caracas
... was a careless idiot who shouldn´t be trusted to get the milk from his local corner shop let alone wander the streets of Caracas with plastic money. We made it back to the Hilton without taking the senic route past the gangs and crack whores in ...
Making the dream a reality starts today....
Living The Dream (LTD) began today! Arrived in Caracas the capital of Venezuela to find the main bridge that connects the airport to the rest of the city had collapsed! Had to scam my way onto a World Social Forum convention bus for the 3.5 hour ride into ...
Crackers Caracas (AKA - C.P.F.A.B.O.B )
... 4 years after it was originally started - Go Chavez ! Anyway, we found the check in desk for Aeropostal Airlines, the biggest airline in Venezuela and most of South America. There was a small queue, but no one behind the desk. It was only 5.45 by this ...
Delays, delays, delays!
Got to Caracas 4 hours late only to find I had to wait 3 hours for my onward connection that I thought I had missed. At least I didn´t have to stay ...
Hellish Caracas
... really wanting to stay in Caracas we decided to head to the bus terminal for greater options. We had to take another grossly overpriced taxi (Caracas at night is no place for lost folk!!) who pulled up to a mob of people all wanting to take us to various ...
Wrong way arround to Caracas
After returning from Angel Falls we had just enough time to see the Gran Sabana and the table mountains in the South of Venezuela. In order to see the Gran Sabana we had too travel back down south to Santa Elena from where Gran Sabana tours were ...
Caracas.....closing the South America loop....
... this fantastic continent is over..... After my last ride in a 1980 Chevrolet Capri to the airport i now find myself sitting at Caracas Airport a very sad man.... Sad because i am leaving all the beauty and culture of this continent, all the memories and ...
The day after the elections...and more...
... "Cubanisation" of the country, born out of Chavez´ relationship with Fidel and the large number of Cuban professionals entering Venezuela and then apparently staying on (and some even becoming fraudulent) as they become attracted to higher salaries. ...
Caracas
... at the airport about 5pm. It was nice to be back in a warm climate again! We explored the possibility of a taxi to a suburb of Caracas called Sabana Grande but the price tag of US$120 put us off. Instead, we opted for the public bus costing US$2 but ...
rejsen til Chichiriviche
Venezuela....wow, saa skete det endelig Sikke en rejse her over. Intet gik helt som forventede. Gruppen fra Danmark moedtes i Lufthavnen kl. 06.45 hvor jeg sagde farvel til min familie... Allerede fra starten var der problemer, da vores fly til ...
Nov 30: The Pro Chavez march
... and were there with conviction that the elections would prove another victory for the socialist democracy that is being built in Venezuela. I didn`t recognise the Avenida...although I had been there the day before. It was completely packed - including the ...
Back to Caracas
I got back to Caracas on Sunday and spent several days here before heading off traveling again. George, a friend from London (and Rosa´s cousin) arrived a day later, and we spent time meeting up with some of his friends and seeing other Caraquenian ...
Thurs 29 Nov: The Anti-Chavez/ "No" Vote March
... "No's" in depth and to the people from the barrios...But in general, I think that it is promising that the people of Venezuela themselves can decide on their own political system and on democratic reforms. It is clear that there is a lot of polarisation - ...
To Caracas
... and finally I got to my hotel. I just unpacked, ate in the restaurant and went to bed. The next day was a national holiday in Venezuela so I had the day off to explore the city. I met up with a Venezuelan boy and his friend and we had lunch together. We ...
Caracas is Rocous
Who would think 2 hours out would be all I could handle and all I can tout. Chocolate so good wine like piss this is a port that I debate I'll even miss. The lunch was grand the hospitality gall I rather sunbathed on the ship that see it ...
Amazons and Angels (& Amadeus)!
... Uairen. Crossing the border we said what we thought were our final goodbyes to Brazil after 7 fantastic weeks. However once in Venezuela as we suspected we found the official exchange rate to obtain Venezuelan bolivars was only half that offered by ...
Venezuela week 1
... was ushered into the back of their van which was amusing when you look back but pretty scary at the time! Got out of Caracas asap and headed for beach/fishing village of Puerto Colombia on Caribbean - been eating loads of fresh fish, and today we got ...
