Things to see and do East Coast

An indispensable stop for all lovers of chocolate! 50, 60, 70 dark dark and even up to 100% cocoa-free cocoa.

Located 15 km east of Río Caribe and 12 km west of Playa Medina, in the village of Chacaracual, this hacienda in nature produces a range of cocoa-based products. Alida and Christine await you. Formerly 100% craftsmen, manufacturing today is semi-industrial but remains of excellent quality. Against a few bolivars, you will be told, on the ground, the whole process of harvesting in chocolate processing. It finishes in the form of a sumptuous tasting of a kind of homemade Nutella, chocolate boulettes and cocoa liquor. In option, I recommend a good cold chocolate glass 100% and above all fantastic crêpes chocolate crêpes! Hacienda Bukare has enchanted us. The educational course in the plantation is interesting, not to mention the tasting! You are given the information: The owner of the owner is Irene Esser, Miss Venezuela 2011 to 19 years old!

A beautiful sandy beach, with one end of a few boats and fishing huts and you will be alone during the week to enjoy the 3 palm trees.

Excellent snorkeling along the rock wall: Don't miss the unique vision of corals filled with blue, orange, red and white polyps that make them look like Christmas trees.

The beach closest to the village is not the best. Long chairs and a fish restaurant extra.

A busy beach, probably because it is not far away and because the very good restaurant El Embajador serves excellent seafood dishes. Sun loungers for rent. For the night, you can hang your hammock in the hut of the restaurant.

Probably the most beautiful beach, but bring water and what to survive because there is a restaurant open only in season.

These ruins have been classified as historic monument since 1960. In 1647 Don Juan Sedeño Albornoz was relieved from his duties as field master in Barcelona del Cerro Santo (Barcelona has not yet been founded). It gives the ground of the present casa fuerte to the missionaries. 68 years later the Franciscans began building a convent. In December 1816, Simón Bolívar organizes the headquarters of his military operations. To do this it transforms the convent into a species of citadel, dotted with trenches where it increases holes in walls for cannons. This is how Le could withstand General Pascual Real when he took Barcelona on February 8, 1817 with his army of 4 500 men, and thus waiting for General Francisco Bermúdez's reinforcements for a historic victory. On the Bolívar Bridge, we still imagine the accolade of the two men and famous sentence of Simón Bolívar: " You are the liberator of the liberator! " On 5 April 1817, the Bloody Spanish Colonel D. Juán Aldama took a position at the strategic locations of the city pending heavy artillery. On the morning of 7 the "casa" falls. General Pedro María Freites heroically resists wounded arm, but must order the retirement, accompanied by Governor Francisco Esteban Ribas. Both men fall into the hands of enemies. Prisoners are taken to Caracas and executed on Plaza Mayor (present Plaza Bolívar) on the 17 th of the same month. The wicked royalist the massacre of 1 600 supporters (men, women and children!).

It's an opportunity to finally see what a guácharo looks like, learn a little more about the German scientist, and the cave in general. So as you are on the spot, why not?

Every morning on the right of the village beach, one déballent of fruits and vegetables, some of the freshly caught fish, but also copies of CD and DVD. It is a pleasant stroll where a speciality of the region can be tasted in the pig offal: …

It is a tradition that it is! You are in the fourth house in Barcelona, built in 1671. These colonial traditions (religious objects, a spur of Boves) but also Indian (crafts) tell, with other authentic documents, the history of the city. Let us also note that, during the colonization, slave sales were held every Sunday in this building. Around the patio of this well-restored colonial house is exposed a collection of firearms and white weapons covering a period from conquest until the beginning of the th century. You can also enjoy the painted works of Honofre Frías, Harold Tobías, Giovanni Aquino and Justo Osuna.

Built in 1945 under Medina Angarita. Declared museum in 1974. The neo-colonial style is predominant, with a central patio. The old city council houses the relics of Sucre, the mock-ups of battlefields, etc. The museum presents cultural events.

The market can be served in an active and relaxed atmosphere.

Farmers go down to sell their production: you can discover still unknown fruits in Europe, with strange flavours, which you will even be offered juice… so taste the Jugo de Lolo and you will tell me some new ones! Theobaldo, a young guide, independent, self-fulfilling and self-confident, passes every morning through church square at 8 a. m. sharp. If you are there, it will take you to a coffee hacienda, a waterfall of 100 m or Cerro Negro which culminates at 2 600 m. Not expensive and nice, but discuss the price before.

From November to April, colonies of pink Flemish rose from the Island of Bonaire. Gulls also, des, etc. It's the night that the lagoon becomes magical, its isolation transforms it into a fantastic planetarium. Transport. To ask Arquimedes de la posada, he can take you in 4 x 4 (1 hour) or by boat (2 hours).

Puerto Francés is a bay with crystal clear waters, it offers the same services as the previous one.

Good for surfing.

A small quiet beach awaits you, ideal for dipping.

A white sandy beach, the funds are decorated with beautiful coral reefs. A little snorkeling is enough to observe beautiful specimens under water. Service for the rental of umbrellas and chairs, small restaurants to enjoy fish broths, squid, fried fish etc.

The must for snorkeling. Imagine a quiet beach along the waters where a boat is buried with coral and colorful fish.

This natural monument was declared a national park on July 15, 1975 in tribute to the famous technologist Alexander Humboldt. The average temperature of 181 ha is between 18 and 19 ° C. Scientifically known as Steatiornis Caripensis, definition of the bird hosted and reproduced in the cave. These specimens live in symbiosis in an obscure, protected and humid zone, feed fruit and build their nests on the walls of the cave walls. Histographie reveals that, in 1977, Francisco de Ybarra y Herrera, bishop of the diocese of Saint-Thomas-de-Guiana, was one of the first people to explore the cave. But there are still historical facts: prior to colonization, the natives visited it.

From 1657 onwards, the Franciscan Capuchin missionaries discovered it at the evangelization of Alanya Province. Humbold visited her during his expeditions in 1799, as shown by a plaque dedicated to the great man (to venture further, enlightened cave fans must apply for a permit in Caracas in Caracas). The author says that he travels 472 m to reach a giant stalactite, "El Castillo" (the castle). It was in 1855 that Agustin Codozzi travelled the cave in its entirety to reach the "No silence" and the "Salon de los Pechos".

During heavy rains, from July to September, it may happen that the bed of the river déborde and flooding a good part of the cave, making the visit impossible. A very good path matching the cave, accessible from 4 to 77 years. During the rainy season, a pair of trainers will be more adapted than your Teva sandals. Finally, the use of flash is forbidden for the first 800 metres.

Indeed, the guácharos, animals photophobiques, have wards completely dilated by the darkness and light of your device blind blind to lose any marker! They then drop against the walls of the cave and die. In the cave, the use of oil lamp in discrete light is tolerated. The largest cave in Venezuela is also venerable, 130 million years old, and definitely deserves displacement. Of the 9 000 m of galleries, just over 1 800 m are visible.

Your walk (sometimes slippery) in the cave will be enliven by the strange forms of stalagmites and stalactites. They form figures - or shadows - as varied as breasts, King Kong, a mushroom, a palm tree, a pelican, an elephant head or a couple of lovers. It's really fascinating!

You will pass from the room assourdissante of the guácharos to that of Silence, to reach the room of the "Pechos" breasts. But for now, you're in the lair of the photophobique cave: Steatornis caripensis. This barbaric word means etymologically "bird of Caripe oil", guácharo for the intimate.

He lives only in the dark, reaches 1,10 m tall and has very little utiles eyes since the volatile moves, like a bat, by emitting ultrasound. At night he leaves in the national park looking for seeds that he feeds.

These are the same seeds that he rejects, after digestion, in the cave and which germinate a few days, until the lack of light becomes fatal to them. The particular ecosystem of the cave is also made up of mice, crabs, fungi, spiders, frogs, bats and other graceful creatures.

A sign indicates Playa de Uva. You will reach a beautiful and long beach with coconut trees and perhaps even some surfers.