Venezuela Travel Blogs

1 week to Isla margarita, enjoying diving at the nearby islands, the beautiful beaches, island safari trips and nightlife.

My flight was scheduled for the morning. There is no direct flight to Lima, so I'd have to fly first to Caracas, pffff. Anyway, it didn't leave early so I wasn't in a hurry. Alejandro came and drove me to the airport. I had a great time in Maracaibo, but wasn't ready to go back home. Actually I'm n…

After a 45min flight we arrived to Caracas. Our flight to Lima was for 7pm and it was just 3pm, so we had a lot of time. We arrived to the domestic flights area. Everything was perfect, the only thing was that we had to wait a long time for our bags. Blair was getting worried about his luggage. Whi…

Caracas airport was not as busy or un safe as we were expecting, it´s so clean and an impressive terminal. It must be said that the local taxi drivers can seem a little pushy..even just to simply offer their black market ¨cambio¨rates. Unfortunatley we had a few problems with our connecting…

Trip to Isle Margarita Venezuela 2008

  Once we had arrived on the main island we went and got our snorking equipment we were off and on our catamaran. We were travelling for a little while and finally arrived at one island we were stopping at. We got off the boat and went snorking around in a small bay. This was wonderful all th…

The ferry crossing to Venezuela passed pretty much without incident.  Got chatting to Ramesh, from Trinidad, who was going over there for a week`s holiday and knew a little bit about the place so we decided to forge some plans.  Quite a strange way of going about immigration when you come…

The dreaded border crossing into the notoriously dangerous Venezuela ended up being a cake walk.  POME Rob and I got a 14 hr night bus straight from Manaus to Santa Elena with no issues.  To my surprise and relief the border crossing was very clean, modern, fast, and stress free.  We…

wow! this was a strange meeting, that's for sure. Kim and I were in touch before we both even thought about going to Venezuela. Finally when we both were sure when we would go, we realized we would go to different cities, so no way to meet. It was Saturday and I was in my way to my gate in or…

Crossing the border actually turned out to be surprisingly easy. From the bus stop in Cucuta I caught a local bus for 3000 Venezuelan Bolivaris to the DAS office on the border (I had changed the rest of my money to dollars at the terminal and a little bit to Bolivars as I wasn't sure what rate I wo…

With my cousins who live in Caracas we took the aerial tram to Cerro del Avila, it was huuuge! it seemed like it was never gonna end but it took aprox. 30 minutes. Up in the top of the hill it was really cold and windy. People were selling nice delicious typical food up there:…

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I`m travelling from the north to the west in 6 months. I started in Venezuela and will visit Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, maybe Ecuador or even Argentina or Chili. We`ll see ...

On New Years Day we took a flight from Chicago to Caracas, landing at night.  The taxi driver went well beyond the call of duty to help us find our cheap hotel in a shady neighborhood. And then we were off....  

The best of Venezuela in three weeks: Pico Bolivar, Merida, Los Llanos, La Gran Sabana & The Caribbean!