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Advantages: Great scenery, attractions and nightlife Disadvantages: The crime
This review is a trip I took a few years ago to Caracas, Venezuela.
About CaracasCaracas is the capital city of Venezuela and has 4 million inhabitants who live there.
Caracas is the commercial and industrial centre of Venezuela and these include places such as meat packing, sugar refining and even tobacco products and glassware.
Caracas is also 900 metres above sea level and is a city which is situated next to the Caribbean port of La Guaira and is right on the coast.
Weather
The weather throughout the year is roughly the same but there are also the additional bad storms that might hit the city.
The normal temperatures throughout the year is around 27c and at night time can be around the 15c mark so at night time might seem the same as it would during the day.
Temperatures have been known to rise up to ...
tink-er-bell 06.01.2010
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: exceptional Review of Caracas
Advantages: Avila Mountain, Gastronomy, Latin Flavor Disadvantages: Crime, Unsafe.
I?ve been reading some opinions on Caracas. Since I was born there, I hope you can find my opinion a little bit helpful. You have to analyse Caracas by traveling and experiencing the city. You'll find a very hidden beauty.
When you arrive to Simon Bolivar Airport and take the highway to Caracas, you?ll see an enormous belt of shanty towns (poor districts). At first, it seems to be shocking and depressing. Once in the city, you discover that Caracas is located in a wonderful place: the skirts of Avila Mountain, a beautiful national park that separates Caracas from Caribbean Sea. A sunny day, at dusk , you?ll find delightful the green and blue shades of the mountain.
It is essential for you to take the cableway that leads to the top of the mountain (Humboldt Station 9000 ft. above sea level) . Now, watch the landscape: on one hand ...
luised 30.04.2003
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Caracas
Advantages: Great natural beauty Disadvantages: Pollution from cars
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Orientation and Important Stuff
For those who do not know Venezuela is in South America on the northern coast of the continent looking out towards Trinidad and the rest of the Caribbean, in the west you have the Andes before you land up in Columbia and the south west is dominated by the jungles that lead into the Amazon. The capital city is Caracas which is located in the north, apart from the airport I spent no time in the city and only saw it from the windows of a bus. It has a bad reputation for crime however like all such places if you are sensible and stay in the tourist areas and do not venture out alone at night then you will be fine, the whole month in Venezuela the only negative comment I heard about Caracas was from a German bloke who got pick-pocketed on public ...
