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Weather in Venezuela
Venezuela Temperatures Venezuela is near the earth's equator, so average temperatures remain the same all year round. Changes in temperature come only with changes in altitude, dropping about 5.4°F with every 1000ft increase (6.5°C per 1000m). Since over 90% of Venezuela lies below 1000m, you’ll experience temperatures between 70°F and [...]
Beautiful Photos of Venezuela’s Páramo Highlands
The páramo are the Andean highlands of Venezuela. This ecosystem is found in the high elevations, between the upper forest line at 3,000 meters elevation and the permanent snow line at 5,000 meters. The páramo is cold, with animals uniquely adapted to the temperatures, such as the woolly donkey pictured below. These areas consist mostly of [...]
Squid Fishing in Venezuela
Geraldine is a young British woman who has done a lot of travelling in Latin America and written about it in her great blog, Mole's Eye View. She traveled through Venezuela as well, and wrote some interesting posts about it. In one, she wrote about her experience squid fishing in Santa Fe, Venezuela. She had a great time, though she only caught [...]
Coromoto, the Venezuelan Ice Cream Parlor with 860 Flavors
Reprinted from the BBC Online, with some photos added from various sources You might imagine that the shop selling the largest number of ice-cream flavours in the world would be in Italy or perhaps the US, but in fact it is in the Venezuelan city of Merida, as Will Grant discovered. After looking in the windows of a couple of ice-cream [...]
Lonely Planet guide out of date on Venezuela
In a blog post titled "Lonely Planet or off the planet?", Cowboy in Caracas complains that the 2007 edition of Lonely Planet's Venezuela guide is woefully out of date, whether as a result of poor research, or political bias. He writes: From Caracas the nearest beaches are west of the airport in Catia La Mar or east of the airport in the [...]
Weather in Venezuela
Visitors often want to know what the weather will be like in Venezuela, so they know what to pack and what to expect as far as comfort. Venezuela is tropical and equatorial, so it is warm and humid, and there are really only two seasons, wet (or "green" as the tourist industry likes to call it) and dry. Venezuelans refer to the wet [...]
