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Peninsula de Paria

Posted by Columbus 11 April 2007

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