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Venezuela, a small country in South America, seem to be the result of a happy and wonderful divine error. God would inadvertently placed all the wonders of nature: jungle, savanna, mangrove, desert, mountains, white sandy beach with crystal clear waters, incredible diversity of animals and plants, and a people as diverse qu’enchanteur … Venezuela is the country of world records: the highest waterfall in the world, the highest cable car, Miss Universe, the essence of the cheapest …

Powerful and preserved nature

Beautiful and wild, it leaves you speechless. Whether you are attracted by the light of the Caribbean with its beautiful beaches, small islands (keys) or the coral reef in Los Roques, the many national parks that provide a fauna and flora, or the high mountains in the Andes Bolivar where the peak rises to 5 007 m altitude. Further north is the colonial city of Coro, which also has a small desert dunes … and particularly arid areas (cactus …) and the desert peninsula that Paraguana eye on the side of the Netherlands Antilles. Nature takes its rights in a country of savanna and Tepuys (geological formations of the oldest in the world), one of them throws the Salto Angel, the waterfall the highest in the world.

Unique range of possible activities
A trip to Venezuela is an excellent opportunity to practice the sports of mountaineering (hiking, climbing … or rather Andean climbing, rafting, paragliding …), water sports (diving, surfing, windsurfing, kitesurfing, water skiing, rafting, fishing …), to observe wildlife, explore virgin lands, or simply lounging on beaches in the shade of coconut trees …

Mixing culture
Venezuela is a country with many faces, meeting point of many cultures. The criollos are the result of interbreeding between indigenous peoples, the Spanish colonists, french and German and African slaves.
Some remote regions have resisted for a long time to blend, and now home to people of African descent (Choroni, Chuao …) or German (Colonia Tovar). But Venezuela is also. 34 ethnic groups who have managed to protect and preserve their traditional lifestyle.