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| Best Venezuela Beaches | The flourishing and rarely visited Paria Peninsula in Sucre hides beautiful, isolated and not very easy to access tropical beaches, famous throughout Venezuela because of their clear crystal waters and gold sands. On a former coconut plantation and with excellent snorkeling, the irresistible bay of Playa Medina is considered to be Venezuela's most beautiful beach. You can book simple cottages. Neighboring Playa Pui Puy is rougher and good for windsurfing. The little and delightful, yet to be discovered by the mainstream village of San Juan de Las Galdonas is enclosed by endless white sand, palm-fringed, crystal clear water beaches in this forgotten stretch of the Caribbean Sea.
Accessible due to its closeness to Puerto La Cruz and Cumaná, beach goers will be highly rewarded by one of Venezuela's most beautiful landscapes in the Mochima National Park. The countless islands, sandy coves and secluded bays teem with exceptional above and underwater marine life (playful dolphins included) and contain lovely white and red sands beaches excellent for a myriad of watersports, mainly scuba diving and snorkeling, but also for sailing, yachting and kayaking.
To the north from Caracas, the coral islands of Los Roques Archipelago National Park offers pristine, white sand beaches of turquoise and emerald waters, the cleanest in the nation. You may accompaniment your stay with a wide range of activities like scuba diving, snorkeling, sailing, yachting, fishing and kayaking.
Pass through the bio diverse cloud forests of Venezuela's first national park, the Henri Pittier, thanks to a spectacular 28 mile road to reach one of the country's most beautiful colonial towns, Choroní, and the fishing village of Puerto Colombia, from where it is possible to visit unspoiled, white sand, very attractive bays like Cepe and Chuao surrounded by coconut palms and lush hills, most of them only reachable by boat in this cocoa-growing area in which there are still haciendas and where it is still possible to occur expressions of the African-Venezuelan culture like the heart beating drums or "Tambores". There are scuba diving and snorkeling tours available.
The gorgeous Morrocoy National Park, with its palm-packed coral keys, private beaches and tranquil, shallow turquoise waters is a not to be missed place in Venezuela. The sheltered waters are excellent for things like swimming, scuba diving, snorkeling, yachting, sailing, kayaking and water skiing. The neighboring Cuare Wildlife Sanctuary is a paradise for birdwatching enthusiast.
In the east face of the Paraguaná Peninsula, the calm and laid-back Adícora is world renowned for its windsurfing and kite surfing and also a good starting point for excursions to the 2,674 feet high Santa Ana Hill, the only one in the peninsula, and to the Cabo (Cape) de San Román, Venezuela's northernmost point. |
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