Spreading over 352,000 square miles, Venezuela's majestic and varied landscape serves as the gateway to South America. Eleven miles from the coast, midway between Venezuela's eastern and western borders, lies the capital, Caracas: a captivating and modern city,whose hectic life-style also offers space and time for relaxation. Caracas is located in a ten mile long valley, three thousand feet high, cradled by mountains up to 9,000 feet. Venezuela has many facets, a bit of everything for everyone all year round and Caracas is but the introduction to Venezuela's many attractions.

The Venezuelan islands, for example, form a veritable pearl necklace in the Caribbean Sea. The Andes range, with peaks topping 16,000 feet, delight the eye with their serene beauty, and one of the most impressive, Pico Espejo, can be reached by riding the world's highest cable-car. And nestling among the slopes of these high mountains lies a myriad of small towns and villages. Eastern Venezuela with its luminous atmosphere and the endless blue of its horizon, constitutes one of the tourist attractions with beaches and islets where visitors can surf, water ski, fish.

South of the country's main waterway, the Orinoco River, lies the Venezuelan jungle, a virgin and untamed land, marked by swift-running rivers that traverse formidable cascades such as Angel Falls, highest in the world at 3,212 feet. Great tablelands tower above the rolling plains of the Gran Sabana and are another of Venezuela's unforgettable natural wonders. Away from the wide horizons of the jungle, Venezuela's central-western plains, called the "Llanos", are yet another expression of nature's infinite beauty. The endless plains stretch out on all sides as far as the eye can see, interrupted here and there by streams and ponds, where colorful herons and ibises flock and take off in thrilling flight. A land the plainsman gallops on horseback, herding his cattle, where rivers overflow with the rains and where music fills the air at dusk.

ARCHIPELAGO LOS ROQUES NATIONAL PARK - In the Caribbean Sea, 176 Km north of Caracas, lies the National Park Archipelago Los Roques, one of the largest marine national parks of the Caribbean with exceptionally beautiful beaches of white sands, and multicolor, crystalline, warm waters, consisting of 50 islands, islets and coralline keys. Los Roques surrounds a lagoon occupied by mangroves and coral formations and in El Gran Roque Island dwell the permanent population of the Archipelago, approximately 150 fishermen families, who, as well as some transitory fishermen from Margarita Island, live on lobster fishing, conch gathering, and typical fishes of our tropical waters.

CANAIMA NATIONAL PARK - The Canaima National Park is located in the southeast of Bolivar State, some 225 km from the Orinoco river, in an area called Gran Sabana. The jungle and savannas of this area are constantly interrupted by magnificent Tepuys, table-top mountains with a maximum height of 2,800 meters dating back to the pre-cambric age, about 3,500 millions years ago. The Tepuys offer unusual ecosystems inhabited by endemic vegetal and animal species. 

DELTA OF THE ORINOCO - The Orinoco Delta is one of the largest delta regions in the world with 40.240 square kilometers of mostly swamp surface covered by one of the most dense, intricate and diverse jungles in the world, populated by abundant tropical fauna, with birds like parrakeet, parrots, macaws, kingfishers, mockingbirds, herons and corocoras as well as howling and capuchin monkeys, alligators, turtles, snakes, river dolphins, otters and fish. The Warao indians are the main human group on the areas living along the rivers in palafitte communities and dedicate to fishing, hunting, collecting fruit and the making of their traditional crafts.