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A Travel Guide to Venezuela
Venezuela has a lot to offer. It's worth taking time to find out about the different parts of the country.
Venezuela's regions
Venezuela is very diverse by any standards. Get to know it better in these brief guides.
Venezuela's regions
Angel Falls & Canaima
The world's tallest waterfall, locked away in a remote canyon...
Paria
Lush green landscapes of small hills, farms and villages. Gorgeous beaches and the best chocolate in the world...
Paria
Orinoco Delta
A unique world, a labyrinth of waterways that is home to the Warao people, whose history goes back 6,000 years...
Cities
Brief guides to the Venezuelan cities of most interest to visitors.
Venezuela's cities
Caracas
Venezuela's brash capital, a sprawling melee of urban freeways, modernist architecture, fine colonial buildings, and many surprises...
Caracas
Merida
Provincial centre of the Andes, a friendly university town against a stunning backdrop of mountain peaks...
Merida
Ciudad Bolivar & Pto Ordaz
Twin cities of eastern Venezuela. Ciudad Bolivar is small and historic, Puerto Ordaz is modern, sited by the cataracts where Ralegh turned back...
Coro
Spain's first city in South America. A picturesque colonial town, between desert sand dunes and limestone hills...
Coro
Venezuela's Beaches
As a South American country with a Caribbean coast (more of it than all the Caribbean islands put together), Venezuela is uniquely blessed.
Venezuela's beaches
Los Roques
Los Roques is seriously beautiful. Over 50 coral islands, and numerous low reefs and sand flats, are thrown like a necklace around a central lagoon. Each has powder-soft, white sand beaches, set in shallow emerald and turquoise waters...
Margarita Island
The sun shines on Margarita an average of 9 hours a day almost all year. It is Venezuelas resort island, with a wide choice of hotels, bars and restaurants, nightlife, shopping, and water sports, and days spent at the beach...
Paria
A succession of bays along Parias north coast offer some of the most wonderful beaches in the whole of the Caribbean: palm-fringed crescents of soft golden sand that gently slope into clear calm turquoise waters, sheltered by rocky headlands...
Tacarigua
Imagine a long wide sandy beach facing the Caribbean, reached only by boat across a national park of quiet lagoons where scarlet ibis roost, just a short journey from Caracas...
Choroni
Tucked between the Caribbean and the mountainous cloud forests of Henri Pittier National Park, Choronν has been popular with a young Venezuelan set for many years...
Choroni
Travel information for Venezuela
Practical information for travellers to Venezuela
BASICS
From electric plugs to time-zones, here's the basic information any traveller to Venezuela might find useful...
Basics
PASSPORTS & VISAS
FOR VENEZUELA
The formalities for visiting Venezuela are very simple, but do make doubly sure you have everything necessary...
MONEY
Venezuela has tight foreign exchange controls, so managing your money for a trip to Venezuela needs care...
SAFETY
& SECURITY
Venezuela's safety standards are not the same as in the UK. Take care and be safe...
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