Caracas has some excellent...
Caracas has some excellent museums, concert halls, and it is the birth place of Liberator, Simon Bolivar, who was the Liberator of five South American Countries. (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia)
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50 Reviews Allow me to quote myself (hhhaHAHhahahaAh) in Spanish: "Ha quedado ampliamente demostrado que para ser Presidente de Venezuela lo único que se necesita tener son signos vitales". That is...it has been...
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Old Caracas (Centro) Caracas
5 Reviews Native house of the Liberator Located between the corners of San Jacinto and Traposos, it is the place where the 24 of June of 1783 were born Simón Antonio of the Santísima Trinidad Bolivar Palacios...
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Caracas has some excellent museums, concert halls, and it is the birth place of Liberator, Simon Bolivar, who was the Liberator of five South American Countries. (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia)

I'm homesick from my green sea of life. Tropical rainforest covers most of Amazonas’ western lowlands and is home to a variety of flora including lianas, strangler figs, bromeliads, tree ferns, orchids, lichens and mosses. Eastern Amazonas is dominated by the forested mountains of the Sierranía La Neblina. The waterways of the region are mainly the headwaters of the Orinoco, which flows northwest from its source in the Sierra Parima mountains on the Brazilian border. On the cusp of both the Orinoco basin and the Amazon basin lies the Río Brazo Casiquiare, the only waterway to feed both these great rivers. The luxuriant forests are home to an exotic array of fauna, including mammals such as manatee, fresh water dolphins, giant otters, capuchin, red howler and woolly monkeys, jaguar, puma, ocelot, tapir, brocket deer, agouti and armadillo. The forests are also teeming with bird species...

The dense jungle landscape is interrupted only by swamps, waterways and flat-topped mountains known as tepuis, whose isolated surfaces are home to many rare and endemic plant species. From the Auyantepuy originates the Angel jump waterfall, the highest of the world. The flora of tepuy is quite specific because of isolation and inaccessibility. Is possible to reach the top of the tepuy only by elicopter and in 1992 my friend Piercarlo Toffoletti did a scientific and spaelaelogic expedition to explore a big cave.

Baseball is the big game in Venezuela.While the rest of south america is obsessed with footballl, Venezuela loves baseball and you see it all over the country.
On busy a street intersection in Maturin someone is usually doing something entertaining for a little money or else selling something to make money.

Visite a la playa en Venezuela!

Bebe el coffee.

Come la Empanadas. Mi Gusta!

The Venezuelan love it to go toe beach on weekends. Specially Morrocoy is one of the prefered destinations.

I saw this on a street in Maturin. It is Judas in effigy. It was just before Easter and I was told that later in the evening they would set it on fire and burn it.

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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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