A yoga retreat on a cocoa plantation, next to a small chocolate factory. Run by a Californian Venezuelan, you can practice yoga and meditation, have a massage, wander through the plantation, swim in the splash pool, and relax watching the humming birds.
Food is excellent and imaginative, while chocolate is not obligatory, but recommended. Outings can be arranged to palm-shaded sandy coves or hot springs.
Just four self contained rooms at a very reasonable all-in price, especially if you make sure to take dollar or euro cash, rather than credit or debit cards to Venezuela.

Formerly known as Hacienda Bukare, PariaShakti is five miles from Rio Caribe, a pretty fishing village you can reach in half an hour by communal taxi or bus from Carupano on the north east coast.
www.pariashakti.com
or write to Greta Sanchez at reservaciones@yahoo.com.
Tel: 0058 0426 8196035
or 0058 0294 4163678

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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.

www.bukare.com

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