Caracas is the capital and the largest city in Venezuela. No wonder this place is busted with heavy traffic and overpopulation. It may not be a great place for tourists to stay but then it also has its own attractions that you will want to visit. Caracas is a growing city with numerous structures being built such as big hotels, central plazas, restaurants, bars and a lot more. Their amazing big buildings are one factor for the tourists to come and visit.
Aside from these, here are the top three places that are most visited by tourists:
- The Parque Nacional El Avila – this park is considered to be one of the great attractions in Caracas. Be careful in going in there, this park has dozens of entrances and you might get lost. You can also do hiking inside but be sure that you have someone with you or you are in group. It is strictly imposed by the park’s management for safety reasons – you might get lost or worst, you will get injured.
- Basilica de Santa Teresa – this really attracts the tourists because of its impressive architectural designs. Actually, Basilica de Santa Teresa is divided into two churches – Santa Ana and Santa Teresa. Among the two, it is the church of Santa Teresa who is more famous because of the El Nazareno de San Pablo that can be found inside the church.
- Children Museum of Caracas – this museum has interesting and historical artifacts inside about science, history, arts, religion, music and more. It was also known that this museum was built to teach children the different views of the world.
So that’s it, Caracas may be a crowded place but it has also something that tourist will surely be fascinated. Aside from the tourist spots different foods from different countries are also a lot in this place, from restaurants, bars to pubs, so this is the place for you to eat and experience different specialty foods from different countries.
Caracas is also known as the most expensive places to travel around the world due their complicated foreign exchange system controlled by the government. When you do official exchange rate you are paying three to four times to its real value and all exchanges will be held at exchange house since exchanging money in the hotels are no longer available. Though the system change in the year 2015, still the system is not friendly especially to travelers from us dollars exchanging to local currency and vice versa. Most locals advise you to find you or help you with local currency exchange. There may be alternative ways to exchange money like exchanging currency discreetly at a parallel rate, you need to be aware that this is totally illegal and you might end up at the jail instead of the happy vacation, so be cautious enough to do this and better ask someone who knows around Caracas to help you with this. Aside from the difficulty of currency exchange system, safety is also your priority in this place especially during the night as this place is known as one of the violent cities in Venezuela.