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Small luggage and bags. This is the XXI century!!! Be sure to lock them. An unlock suitcase might be opened somewhere from the plane to costums... and you might get robbed. Lock your lugagge. I have a little lock on my suitcase (the one that really works), then I have a bunch of locks hanging all around for decorative and stay-away-from-my-bag purposes.

Dress down, low profile, almost homeless, but clean. Venezuelans give a lot of importance to taking showers and dressing with clean clothes. But... if you are planning to go to a fancy place, if you are a man bring a really nice jacket and a gorgeous tie (in Venezuela you can buy beautiful ties); if you are a woman, bring a black dress, a chic necklace and proper shoes. That will do. But leave all of your jewelry at home. Dont forget really confortable shoes and cotton socks.You might need a sweater (now, early in the morning is 68 degrees and even less) and a wind-breaker in case you find a short-passing by rain. But remember that Caracas is the capital, is a huge city. You must not look "beachy", bring pants.

Bring your medicines, stick to your treatments. You can find excelent doctors in Caracas and pills and shots and everything you need. But, who wants to spent his/hers vacation seeing a doctor?... Well... I do know a couple of really good looking ones... Men and women: bring your favorite kind of condoms. We have them all, but in Spanish. Ladies, bring the brand of sanitary napking you use (check in my warning' ll about this issue and about condoms as well).

If you are a profesional, bring all of your equipment. But watch out. Be carefull. Check my warning/danger comment about this matter. Other travellers: bring regular camaras and check my "ran out of film" in the warning secction. Dont forget to bring one of those undewater nonexpensive cameras (those that you hand back in when is developing time). It´s really fun to take pictures under water. Specially of other people and of yourself.

You can buy that here, but if you are going to Los Roques, bring ALL of the sun block you can find in stock. Check my warning/danger about the sun in my Los Roques page. It is serious. Bring beach sandals to walk around, and beach rubbery shoes if you are going to do any snorkeling and might step in some corals. Bring mosquito repellent (although, you wont need it in Caracas), but check my Canaima (jungle) warning-advise about this matter.

Bring CASH and you will get a better deal changing your dollars for much more than 1600 bolivares, which is the official change. Dont forget your credit cards as well.

If you like to travel and give presents away, once, when I went to Los Andes, I was heart broken because all of the local kids came up to me asking for a pencil and a pencils sharpenesr. As soon as I got to a big city, I bought hundreds of that, and note books, and colors. It was a feast giving them away!

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