Travel Guide Puerto La Cruz

It is from 1866 that the hamlet of Puerto La Cruz is structured for fishing. Then came the discovery of oil in the vicinity: The place was perfectly placed to accommodate high-tonnage vessels (5 th world oil port), so that it became a particularly active port, a currency generator and engine of Anzaotegui State economy through the construction of refineries. Finally, the port became the seaside city that we currently know, with its 356 000 inhabitants. It is strategically located: to the east, Mochima National Park and its beautiful beaches; to the north, other beautiful beaches and especially Isla Margarita. Puerto La Cruz has become the main access and many Venezuelan tourists to stop there. When they talk to you about Puerto La Cruz, their eye lights up: through the nearby beaches such as Isla de Plata and Arapito and islands such as Las Chimanas, Cachicamo and Borracho; and, in particular, the del Morro complex (a tourist complex, not a disease!) where luxury hotels, discotheques, shopping centres and yachts are lined up, it is the dream of fortune that is spread to the great day.A wealth of new wealth that has an artificial mind. And that you can find on the Croisette of the corner, the Paseo Colón, where you will see only façades made of stucco, smiles in miniature and coke in stock. The seashore is successful and pleasant, but its large beach is littered with trash and polluted. The girls watching you are more than paid, and when someone comes to tell you hello, it is often to offer you two minutes later. Morality, you can take Puerto La Cruz for what it has become: a tourist city of passage. In the evening avoid the bus terminal area, but above all the part between the Rasil hotel and the Conferry terminal: the barrios are every day closer. Puerto la Cruz still has a stadium of 44 000 places where regularly the Deportivo Anzoategui, the team of the first football division: advice to amateurs.