Hello everyone!! well im about to buy a flight ticket to Caracas, and im just wondering.. where to go? to the east beaches or the west beaches..(cheap and safetly places, and of course awesomes).
Well i will stay there like 3 weeks and i just wanna know how expensive is and if there a place to stay for camping or hostal (how much for a night aprox).
Please help me, cause im about to buy this ticket, and my departure will be set on february.
adonias
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wilcho
The nicest beaches would be los roques (awesome but expensive, you can also camp but you still have to pay around 250$ for the plane ticket), morrocoy national park (its a 4 hour drive from Caracas and you will find some hotels but you have to take a boat to the nice beaches or you can camp in cayo sombrero which is very nice). Other nice-but-not-as-nice-as-the-other-2 beaches would be choroni (hostels nearby), cuyagua (only for camping) and margarita island (you need to fly there and there are hotels&hostels). All of them are west side except margarita which is far east.
Check the weather as it can be rainy.
Hope this helps.
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green6ean
You may be in Venezuela for Carnaval. Which is a great spectacle and lots of fun. However you need to plan where you will be as rooms may get booked up.
Last year we had a good time on Pui Puy beach (in Sucre state which is the east side) camping with Venezuelans on holiday. Many had huge sound systems in the back of their 4x4s. Playa Medina is beautiful too but you aren't allowed to camp there.
To get there go via Rio Caribe, stay at lovely Posada Shalimar and ask helpful Francisco to explain where the por puestos leave from. It is quite a long journey (2h) on bumpy roads but with nice scenery. Rio Caribe has a fun Carnaval, a bit more accessible than the bigger places.
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thberry
Hello Adonias,
I would have to agree with greenbean, the beaches in the far west are really nice and far less crowded than the beaches in the east (except at Carnaval and Easter where everywhere gets crowded). You may camp at Puy Pui or spend the night in very nice cabins on the beach for a fair price. In addition, you may spend the nights in cabins at Playa Medina and Playa Uva, both really nice too. If camping at Puy Pui, be extremely careful of your belongings. It is a poverty stricken area and most people there make in a month about what you make in a day. Despite Playa Medina being next to Playa Puy Pui, they're totally different, Medina is calm and relaxing, and Pui Puy has more waves to it. So if you have a body board I recommend you take it if heading out that way. A short distance from Playa Median is Playa Chuaguarama de Sotillo, another very nice beach. A forst of plam trees leading right up to the sandy beach and the waters edge.
If you are and adventure seeker there are other small towns along that coast from where you can get a fishing boat to some incredible, absolutely secluded and pristine beaches.
Other nice beaches in the area are Mochima and Punta Araya. It is also feasable to get the ferry from Puerto La Cruz or Cumana to Margarita.
All the best,
Thomas
Caracas
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