Mostly national park wilderness of rainforests and cloud forests in the north east corner of Venezuela running down to tropical beaches. It's a gigantic botanical garden teeming with wildlife such as the scissor-tailed hummingbird, white-throated barbtail, and Venezuelan parakeet. There are also two and three-toed sloths and anteaters.
Stay at Hacienda Bukare above the seaside town of Río Caribe, a beautifully run cocoa plantation that lies right on the edge of the jungle. We also took a boat tour of nearby Turuepano national park - a vast, swampland, whose canals are populated by caimans, fresh-water dolphins, manatees, otters and piranhas.
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- Population:
- 15,000
- Currency:
- Venezuelan Bolivar
- Time zone:
- GMT-4
- Dialling code:
- 58 94