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Description / Views Caracas
7 Reviews Just getting out and wandering around Caracas is worthwhile. While the city is a bit grubby and smoggy, it does provide the visitor with the experience of visiting a typical Lantin American city....
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Interesting Tips Caracas
7 Reviews drink a lot of fruit juice. Almost every restaurant in Caracas serves fresh fruit juice of many different fruits. The usually offer strawberry, passion fruit, orange, watermelon, papaya, pineapple,...
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Shopping Caracas
3 Reviews The beaches are nice and the beer is cheap. The night life downtown is said to be great! The gold inexpensive so a necklace for that special someone does not cost an arm and a leg That I can't...
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El Hatillo Caracas
1 Review visit El Hatillo, a very old town preserved the same way it was 200 years ago. There are many good restaurants serving typical venezuelan food and nice stores selling souvenirs. Parque Central, La...
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visit merida.it's a great little town in the mountains with a very young feel due to the fact that it hosts a big university.It´s also the center of outdoor sports in Venezule, so if you feel like trekking, climbing, canoyning, or any other extrenme sport then this is a good starting place. repelling down a 35 meter high waterfall.
The currency in Venezuela is the Bolivar.The government of Venezuela implemented rigid foreign exchange controls in the beginning of 2003, including a fixed official rate of exchange. Foreign exchange transactions must take place through commercial banks or exchange houses at the official rate. Money exchange by tourists can be arranged at "casas de cambio" (exchange houses). Travelers should be aware that these exchange houses may change U.S. dollars into Bolivares (the local currency) at the official rate, but are unlikely to trade Bolivares back into U.S. dollars.You are very likely will encounter certain individuals in Venezuela who are willing to exchange Bolivares for U.S. dollars at a rate significantly higher than the official rate of exchange (technically prohibited). Many of the shops in Punto Fijo for example, would accept dollars and work out a more favourable exchange rate...
As Venezuela's sole telecommunications provider, CANTV supplies 3 million customers in 24 states with home telephone, Internet, cellular, satellite-based, data transmission, and yellow pages services. The telephone service can be somewhat 'irregular' at times ! Can TV Most people prefer to use their mobiles. The house phone is usually used for long distance or very short arrangements. Some land lines seem to be old and crackling and people shout down them he he and often the whole family sits round if they ring! There is still suspicion as to 'who is listening in' on landlines in Venezuela.
When in Venezuela, do as the Venezuelans do and this means drinking Polar Beer.Polar are the 17th largest beer company in the world and is the leading Venezuelan beer.The beer is a clear pilsner brewed from a mix of malted barley and cereal flakes and has been adapted to the climate and customs of the Venezuelan people,and naturally, in most Polar beer ads, there is a very beautiful girl offering you an ice cold bottle.My friend The Clarinet Player, was presented with a highly prized Polar beauties calendar on our last visit, much to his delight (but maybe not so much his partner when he returns!)Picture 2, is the less glamourous moi, drinking a beer by the coast on the road to Paraguana from Caracas.
While on my last trip to Venezuela 2007/8, the currency was changed in the new year. They have now dropped three zeros of the money, so whereas it was for example 10,000 bvs, it is now 10 bvs - which should be much easier on the brain ; )The old notes are still useable for 6 moths and after that, extinct ! So if you have some old bvs lying around of any value, I suggest you sell them to someone who is visiting Venezuela y pronto !
Take pleny of US$ and change them with locals. You get a superior rate. Dollar is taken in most shops taxis bars etc. Better exchange than £ or Euro. Tour agency reps are good for changing money into bolivars. You will see them on all the popular beaches in Margarita. Flying past Angel Falls in a light aircraft. To see Angel Falls I have realised a lifetimes ambition. The scenery in Venezuela surpasses or is as good as anywhere you can imagine. Never less than spectacular.
Last fall my three Australian friends and I traveled for three weeks in southeast Venezuela. The highpoints were a eight day trek to Mt. Roraima (Conan Doyle's "The Lost World") and the boat trip to Angel Falls, at 1000 meters the world's highest. Our trip was arranged and coordinated by Backpacker Tours (www.backpacker-tours.com), which I can recommend. Everything went smoothly and the food and accommodations were satisfactory. You should be aware that this part of Venezuela is not a five star area, but trekkers will find the accommodations more than acceptable. Our main problem was that the ATM machines would not accept our credit and money cards, and we had to obtain our currency through a teller.
My impression about Venezuela:It is twice as big as France and as a tourist, you have to make up a choice.The beautiful beaches of Isla Margarita in the north, the Andigo mountains in the west (Estado Mérida), the Llanos in the center or the tropical woods in the east (Gran Sabana).Depending on the time you can travel around in this marvelous country - the best is to make a combination - beaches and mountains - mountains and lower fields - beaches and tropical wood.Fauna and flora safari - or just relaxing - far away from the daily stress. Fauna and flora and the grasslands (Llanos)
Roraima is a tepui, a table mountain, which forms the border with Brazil and Guyana.Every traveler i had met in the course of my journey proclaimed this trek to be the highlight of any trip to Venezuela.And they were so right!!! I will never forget the moment i reached the top of Roraima after three tough days of hiking. It was like stepping into a different world. The sand was pink, the water had the color of cola and i was surrounded by the most bizarre rock formations in the shape of turtles or mushrooms. Oh, and the views from the high plateau over the green rolling hills of La Gran Sabana, and the lush jungle of Guyana on the other side. Undescribable, pure magic...
I love bus rides in South America. It always is an experience at the edge of life, but I just keep forgetting when getting aboard. I love the colourful designs, driving while the door is open, the windows rolled down. I love the slimy music blasting my ears off, love watching people getting on and off the bus every 50 m sometimes. I love the sound and smell of the old motors and love buying sweets or little riddles from the salesmen jumping on and off. Love exchanging the riddles and games with other people on the bus. But most of all I love getting into conversations with people when the bus ride is somewhat longer. The intimate atmoshpere when you're sitting to someone you will never see again on a 8 hrs-bus ride is just unbeatable. You get so close to each other also while not talking and just looking at the same things outside the bus window or while the wheather changes outside....
GRAN MELIA CARACAS Caracas
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Q: hi, i am planning to leave columbia by bus and head for cucuta???? then hopefully catch a bus over to canaima, is this...
A: I don't think it is not possible to get to Canaima by land. probably by river/land, you should check by some local agency. don't forget to have repellent with you,...
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