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El Hatillo Caracas
4 Reviews It's a small town but very cozy. There are several handicraft shops with the nicest things! The day I was there there were some performers in the Plaza Bolivar.... And seemed like a very family thing...
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Avila National Park Caracas
2 Reviews Best destinations : Level of training, none: Quebrada Quintero ( take the right instead of the left when you get to the path that takes to Sabasnieves). This place is one of my favorites since...
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Nature Photos Caracas
9 Reviews El Araguaney (the Araguaney) is our national tree. You never notice it is there until this season: february-march. All the leaves fall down and the only thing that remains on the tree are very yellow...
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La Colonia Tovar Caracas
4 Reviews German town up in the mountains of Venezuela. Kind of a small, quant town on the other side of a rain forest (road goes thru a small portion). If you are in the mood for schnitzel and beer-this is the...
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Residential Caracas Caracas
2 Reviews In Venezuela we call them "coro-coros". If you are really lucky, you will get to see a couple of them at the "Parque del Este" (park and zoo) right in the middle of the city. But to see...
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Morrocoy National Park Caracas
1 Review Parque Nacional MORROCOY, beautiful island beaches, 3 hours drive from Caracas to the city of Tucacas. Then you can pay for a motor boat ride to one of the islands. The most popular island is called...
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The anaconda, which is a water snake, typically grows to about 20 feet (6 meters) long, weighs several hundred pounds, and can measure more than 12 inches (30 centimeters) in diameter. The females are larger than the males.The anaconda kills with power, not poison, and capturing one requires at least two people and a lot of technique.
Canaima includes the uplands of the Gran Sabana and the eastern table mountains (tepuis) of the Roraima Range, as well as the sandstone plateau of Chimantá and Auyán-tepui and the north-western Canaima lowlands. It comprises Precambrian rocks which have been subjected to 600 million years of erosion to form a spectacular landscape. It is composed mainly of horizontal sandstone and lutite strata with inserts of igneous rocks (diorite dykes and colse). There are three disjunct physiographic units: undulating lowlands between 350 and 650m; the flat plateau of the Gran Sabana (800-1500m); and the tepui summits (2000-2700m). The summits reach 1000-2000m above the surrounding plateau and their surfaces are often scarred by gullies, canyons and sinkholes of several hundred metres depth. Water drains from the flat summits forming hundreds of waterfalls. The Río Caroní, with its many tributaries...
Serendipitous Discovery The Natives in Venezuela had known about the "Salto Angel" since the beginning of time. Then United States pilot Jimmie Angel was flying over the area in 1935 when he landed on the top of a lone mountain in search of gold. His plane got stuck in the boggy jungle on top of the mountain and he noticed a pretty impressive waterfall plunging thousands of feet down. He wasn't too happy about the 11 mile hike back to civilization, and his plane remained stuck and rusting upon the mountain as a monument to his discovery. Soon the whole world would know about the falls, which came to be known as Angel Falls, after the pilot who "discovered" them.
"Unhalted by a dam anywhere on its 1,300-mile [2,092-kilometer] course, the Orinoco [shown above at its delta] floods annually and prodigiously. When the rainy Venezuelan 'winter' arrives, lasting from May through November, the river rises more than 40 feet [12 meters], drowning grazing lands miles from its low-water line."
Located on the northernmost tip of Venezuela, this ecoregion covers a peninsula surrounded on three sides by the Caribbean Sea. It has two arms: the arid landscapes and colorful salt lakes of Araya to the west and the mosaics of scrub and bamboo forests of Paria to the east. The ecoregion also includes Isla Margarita, Isla Cubagua, and Isla Coche, just north in the Caribbean Sea. Along the coast, sandy beaches are lined with fishing villages, resorts, coconut palms, and mangroves. The interior is composed of scrub desert, deciduous thorn woodland, pastures, and farmland.
A trip to the Angel Falls is a must. But remember it is in rain forest - that means there is often rain and low cloud. If you are there for a while you should get a good view. However. if you are just going to the falls for a quick visit (e.g. on a fly-past) you might get a restricted view.
The beautiful town of Caripe is the base to visit the Guácharo Cave, Venezuela's most famous and magnificent. Considered one of the most complete cave ecosystems on earth, incredible stalactites and stalagmites formations are still being sculpted by nature in a never-ending process. The cave houses an important colony of "Guácharos" or Oilbirds, the only nocturnal bird in the world that feeds on fruit. In order to protect the feeding grounds of this peculiar bird, 242 square miles around the cave in the Monagas and Sucre States were declared El Guácharo National Park in 1975.
VIRGIN beach ……………WOW!!!!!!!!will be only you ........the mountain ...... the sea and the cristal water, is like being in PARADISE………It is no crowed, very romantic also..........You have to take you own umbrella, cheer, food and drinks there no any kind of service, what make it so virgin..........
One of the most recommended beach of Choroni. Have 1 km in length of sand, crystal waters are a delight, the sand is very white and relax, in here you find restaurants and also you can rent parasols and chairs.At the end of the beach you will find that are some rocky formation on the sea.......that forms a small swimming pools were you can refresh your self
In the different highway’s, you will find small towns or just “Kiosk’s” (like small stores) where you can find the real typical Venezuelan staff........... Via Puerto la Cruz we have the street of Casabe (Typical Venezuelan food – Check my travelogue on typical food) is a street were the only that sell is it Casabe. Go spot to stop and taste!!!!!!!!!Also you find a lot of exotic flower sales, Panelas de San Joaquin (traditional sponge cake) you can see in the highway woman’s standing in a side selling it.
GRAN MELIA CARACAS Caracas
5 Reviews and 129 Opinions This luxury hotel makes much of its inclusion in the 'Leading Hotels of the World' brochure. It's...
Perla Palace Hotel and Casino Isla Margarita
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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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