Country Info
- Caracas
- Capital
- Bolivar (VEB)
- Currency
- 23,916,810
- Population
- VE
- Country Code
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Venezuela
Travel Blogs from Venezuela
The Mountains of Merida
Set on a plateau in a valley at 1600 metres, it can be nothing but amazing. And it is. One of the key sights here is the Teleferico which goes up to a staggering 4045 m! All packed up and with our lives on our back we decide to walk the 3km to the ...
Nemesis: Climbing Roraima
Beware, the following blog may contain a hint of exaggeration and the occasional manipulation of the truth however it is based on a real life story. When we arrived in Santa Elena we were de (wait for it) lighted to discover that our pousada was a ...
To the beach and back
... date next year. We had had some grand plans to go up the cable car and maybe even attempt Pico Bolivar, the highest peak in Venezuela and only a few hundred meters above the top of the cable car but a combination of what seemed to be the early arrival of ...
Goodbye Dublin, Hello Caracas!!!
... plied us with some scotch, “del casa”, after the meal. I don’t drink Scotch. First impressions on Venezuela is we stand out like sore thumbs. I blame the Afrikaan Sunset fella beside me with his pale white skin, he's ...
Small amounts of coffee and a lot of ham in Merida
... also give the Government more power to confiscate property to move towards the socialist state Chavez dreams of. A pretty historic day for Venezuela so I hunted round to get a photo of people voting. The next morning we found out it was 50.7% against ...
Jungle walk and Angel Falls
... 4 of them took a real shine to me.......suspect it is my british passport again, and not necessarily my wit, humour and charm! Venezuela has to be one of the most expensive places I have been. The police, national guards and military just walk the ...
Caracas (Part II) - Shopping Centers & Hupkonzerte
... Hauptstadt CARACAS. Mir wurde schon etwas mulmig als ich die Headline der Zeitungen, die auf den Sitzen lagen, sah: Flugzeugabsturz in Venezuela kostet 46 Leben. In Mérida, einer Stadt in den Anden, war tags zuvor ein Inland-Flieger abgestuerzt. Diese ...
Mt. Avila hike
... fresh juices. I split a drink called cocada (which is basically like drinking a coconut) with my friend Leah. After 3 ½ days in Venezuela and a good hike I was pretty tired and ready to head back to La Guaira and hang out for a while before the ...
noch so ein Strand!
eigentlich wollten wir heute schon ueber nacht nach coro fahren. geht aber nicht, weil der bus voll war. oder weil die uns keine karten verkaufen wollten, das ist mir nach wie vor nicht ganz klar. aber fuer morgen haben wir welche. also nutzen wir ...
Canaima
... are about to fly?! Only in south américa. Possibly the funniest thing I have ever seen. Flight back to Ciudad Bolívar was a bit sad. Sad that the best 3 days of my trip so far are over. Brazil hás a lot to live up to after stunning ...
GIANT ANTEATER
The next morning we drove to Iboribo and travelled by a Curiara (a typical canoe made out of a trunk of a tree) down the river to Salto Chinak Meru a 105m high waterfall. We walked downhill through the woods to the bottom of the waterfall. It was ...
Oilbirds in Caripe- Off the beaten path?
Hello, We are currently in Caripe- a beautiful lush mountain valley town. It is cooler here, but still warm enough for t-shirts 24-7. We visited the oilbird cave (Cueva del Guacharo) which proved to be an awesome tour. Besides seeing and ...
Goodbye Caribbean, hello Mayhem
... we could do so again. The next morning we left Trinidad in a bout of torrential rain and flew to Caracas (capital of Venezuela). We had braced ourselves for the worst with Caracas as both of our travel guides didn´t exactly sing its praises, and both ...
ORCHID ISLAND
We have seen some views during this trip. The landscapes varied from beaches, rock formations to canyons and lakes. But today we saw the best to date. Why have we awarded this accolade to Orchard Island? Because we have never seen ...
The Lost (and rightly so) City
I'll start off by just saying wow. Incredible. Now I'll go into the details, before i die from exhaustion. Day 1 of the Lost City Trek. Our day started poorly. Feeling the effects of the previous night out with some of the lads from the hostel, we woke, ...
Choroní - drei Tage zum Vergessen!
... trug, wurde mir etwas mulmig. (Aufmerksame Leser werden sicher festgestellt haben, dass dies nicht meine ersten Geldprobleme in Venezuela waren.) Nun gab's genau zwei Moeglichkeiten: 4 Stunden Busfahrt, um in Maracay Geld zu holen oder irgendwie ueber ...
Dirty, Dirty Island but great hot dogs!
... we've every had to the cheapest pallela we've ever had! (Burgers will be dealt with in a later entry). The beer in Venezuela isn't necessarily the best but it is offically the cheapest. It's roughly 11p for a bottle and it's always served ice cold! So ...
Finally Venezuela!
Hola After disembarking the ferry which took 2 hours (nightmare) we trundled off down the pier with our ever increasing rucksacks. First thing we had to do was find the ferry company office to get our 75% ticket refund but had absolutely no idea where ...
Puerto La Cruz and on to Santa Fe
26/05/08 - L We crossed the border into Venezuela North of Boa Vista near the Venezuelan town of Santa Elena de Uairen, this was the borderpost where we got stamped into country number 2 on our trip. We hadn´t heard many good things said about ...
wow, was fuer ein Strand!
nach einer etwas abenteuerlichen busfahrt durhc den henri pittier nationalpark nach ocumare und einer teuren taxifahrt an unser ziel, den strand von cuyagua sind wir am ziel. ein absolut traumhafter karibikstrand mit palmen, urlwald und genau so, wie man ...
Angel Falls (Salto Angel)
I arrived in Canaima and was given 20 minutes to prepare for the 4 hour boat ride to Angel Falls. The tour group got on the uncomfortable boat and began our journey down the river. We stopped by a small waterfall for lunch. ...
Crossing the Atlantic
After the short hop from London and the luxurious(!) surroundings of Lisbon airport, we were anxious to get going... thankfully it´s not the Algarve we were destined for. We see the plane ready at the gate (a 737 brilliant) and our flight is finally ...
Wild West of Venezuela
After Merida we travelled back over the Andes to an area called Los Llanos which is known as the wild west of Venezuela. Our local tour guide from Merida (remember the Venezuelan David Attenborough) came with us and we stayed at a little village ...
Wandering the streets of Caracas
... a fancy mall called Sambil to try to find something to eat. We found lots of fast food- Wendy's (which are everywhere in Venezuela) Pizza Hut, and others...but luckily we also found a Venezuelan restaurant too. I had an arepa con asado y aquacate (it's ...
Lost World
How's the end of winter treating y'all? We are writing this from Santa Elena, close to the Brazilian border. We arrived yesterday after completing our Mount Roraima expidition (phew) and are sticking around for at least a day longer than planned ...
Chillaxing
A noisy bus will bring me to the small colonial town of Choroní and the fishing village of Puerto Colombia. The narrow and twisty road cuts right through a foggy Parque Nacional Henri Pittier and is filled with potholes and sharp mountain ...
A long hike down....
Another pretty hike today - from the mountain tops all the way down to the river below with some old Spanish ruins and a small farm with baby cows in between. Our reward for a day in the sun was a swim in the icy Rio Negro. We took full ...