Cumana Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Or the country with the highest murder-rate in the world, according to what my brother read in Nuts! magazine. Thanks rob! Before I got to Venezuela I heard so many bad stories about thieves, armed thugs, the country's expensiveness and general dislike of tourists that I had decided not to spend very much time there before heading to Trinidad. O...

Farewell Venezuela We decided to spend our last real day at the beach, so having caught our transport from the cave we headed back west along the coast to a little beach called Arapito where we could camp. We took a car which was an experience in itself. The car was old, the man claimed 1977 but it wasn't carrying its years well, and he kept his...

We continued along the coast in a por puesto taxi and arrived in Cumana, we planned to stop here in order to pick up a bus to Caripe but since we were there we decided to see what it had to offer. The place itself was like any other Venezuelan town but it was only a boat ride away from the Penninsula de Araya, a penninsula famed for its beaches,...

For one time in my travel, I got time to rest and to enjoy... so, one day in Mochima, a small place near of Cumana, just like the "Calanques" near Marseille on the french riviera... but with the carabean style... Watch the photos ;)

With my tonsillitis now under control (thanks to the antibiotics) sadly we said goodbye to the beautiful Isla Margarita, hoping to arrive at Cumana, the oldest existing town on South Americas mainland, in time to catch one of the two daily buses to Caripe, a small town set in a mountain valley and home to Venezuela´s most magnificent cave. Yes p...