Concejo Municipal, Caracas, Venezuela

Advantages: Lack of tourists, amazing scenery and wildlife, friendly people, and good transport.
Disadvantages: You have to be prepared to organise everything yourself, in Spanish! Not for people looking for glitz, glamour or an easy life.

...marks to KLM for employing pilots with ESP. I didn’t pay particular attention to the timing of the flight, but I think it was about 12 hours in total from Birmingham to Caracas. Venezuela’s main international airport is as bland and uninteresting as most others I have visited (Amsterdam’s Schipol, by contrast, is possibly the hugest, brightest and most diverting place to waste an hour or so between changing planes) but the customs and immigration officials were nice enough, and soon we were through into the main concourse ready to be bombarded with offers of taxis, accommodation, money changing and the like. The touts, refreshingly enough, were not terribly persistent, and after a brief stop at an ATM - it isn’t possible to buy Venezuelan bolívars outside of Venezuela - we were on the bus to central Caracas... Read review

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Advantages: cheap, beautiful, diverse
Disadvantages: can be dangerous, english is not widely spoken

...Venezuela has to be the most amazingly diverse country i have ever been to, and worry not, it is not the only place i have been. It ranges from the Andes in the West to the Gran Sabana and then onto the dense Jungle in the east. It has the world's tallest waterfall: Angel Falls, (discovered by Jimmy Angel), beautiful Carribean Coast, unique tribal communities and bustling oil rich cities. As i did with my trip lets start where most people do -Caracas. This is a city of to halves, extreme poverty and extreme wealth due to the oil, but the first thing that hit me was the incredible prices. I mean a 3 course meal for £2.50 and people were ripping you off if they were selling fags for 90p. This meant that a daily budget was tiny and in fact hotel rooms in other towns were less than £4.00 a night, so a budget of less than £15 is fine... Read review

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Advantages: duty free prices, weather, food, people,water,fish,trips
Disadvantages: crooks,airport,cars,first choice

...hope this review helps i am not a writer so excuse any mistakes i would just like to try and give you an idea of what this was like. we travelled november 2004 to this amazing island where we had a fantastic time (made ourselfs) the island of margarita is unbelievable place where the weather hits right up into the high 40s,sometimes abit overpowering but if you are after a deep tan this is the place to be. if you dont know it is a spanish speaking island just off venezuela but most of the people speak quite good english. we went 2 weeks all inclusive stayed at the dunes beach resort which is a large complex the rooms are nice but basic have tv and showers,fridge (couldnt understand why no mini bar as was all inclusive) the hotel had probably the best night entertainment group ive seen not the usual tacky shows you get... Read review

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