Venezuela

Tepuis two billion years old, the highest waterfall on earth and a Caribbean coast that is still almost empty. Andaventura's Venezuela guides.

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updated: August 2026

Venezuela packs three unrelated worlds into one country: the Andes, with high moorland above four thousand metres; the Guiana Shield, home to the oldest tepuis on the planet; and a Caribbean coastline of archipelagos that are still close to empty. These guides cover what you need to travel them.

If you don’t know where to start: the five places that justify the trip is a short list with a point of view, and travel in Venezuela breaks the country down region by region.

Guayana: tepuis and waterfalls

Angel Falls drops 979 m from the Auyantepui and is reached only by light aircraft and dugout canoe. It sits inside Canaima National Park, along with La Gran Sabana and Roraima, the one tepui you can climb on foot.

The Andes

Mérida is the base for everything Andean. From there you climb to the La Culata moorland —the easiest way into frailejón country— and enter Sierra Nevada National Park, which holds Pico Bolívar (4,978 m) and Humboldt. The overview of all three mountain systems is in mountains of Venezuela.

The Caribbean

From the Los Roques archipelago —light aircraft and empty cays— to the Morrocoy cays, reached by local boat from Chichiriviche or Tucacas. Further east, Mochima National Park repeats the same pattern of islands and boat rides. For a beach with infrastructure, Isla de Margarita, with El Yaque for windsurfing.

The full indexes: beaches of Venezuela and islands of Venezuela.

Near Caracas

The Cordillera de la Costa separates the capital from the sea. It holds El Ávila, Henri Pittier —the country’s oldest national park, which runs down to the beaches of Choroní— and Colonia Tovar.

Other landscapes

Falcón holds two extremes: the Médanos de Coro, the country’s dune desert, and Adícora, on the Paraguaná peninsula. The full review of protected areas is in national parks of Venezuela.