Beautiful Margarita Island, Venezuela - the Caribbean (Isla Margarita)
In the Days when Hugo Chavez ruled Venezuela. 1 U.S. Dollar got you 6 Venezuelan Dollars (Bolivars) ...so beers were 25cents, hotel rooms with full bar & food were $22 a night !! This Gem of a Caribbean Island was unknown to most Americans. Crystal blue water, palm trees, empanadas and fine fine fauna ;) *ALL VIDEO IS COPYRIGHTED & cannot be used be used without express approval. All music is FAIR USE and for learning purposes. .
Margarita Island tourism wasting away amid Venezuela economic crisis
Hard times have hit the beach of Venezuela’s Margarita Island.
Playa el Yaque in Margarita Island, Venezuela
Playa El Yaque is internationally known as one of the seven best locations in the world having ideal conditions for windsurfing and kitesurfing, attracting enthusiasts from all over the world, especially from Europe. It displays a row of hotels, shops and restaurants close to the beachfront, featuring a wide range of facilities and sport gear.
Margarita Island is the largest island in the Venezuelan state of Nueva Esparta, situated off the northeastern coast of the country, in the Caribbean Sea. The capital city of Nueva Esparta, La Asunción, is located on the island. Primary industries are tourism, fishing and construction.
The beach is located in the south side of Island of Margarita, Venezuela, about three kilometers away from the island's International Airport. The trade winds blow steadily at 15 to 30 knots during most of the year, and the shallow sea extends south of the beach for several hundred meters, allowing fallen windsurfers to stand on the flat sand bottom. As in most of the Caribbean, the water is usually between 21°-27 °C, warm enough to allow windsurfing for hours wearing just a swimsuit or a bikini. On a typical day, up to one thousand windsurfers may be seen sailing at a given moment, along with practitioners of other similar water sports.
There is beach access all along Av Mario Oliveros (the main road). Watching the wind and kite surfing is an adventure to those relaxing on the beach. The girls like watching the muscles and the guys like watching the skimpy bikini clad girls. It is also a popular family beach due to the fine white sand and shallow water.
It has become popular to pack a cooler with ice, beer, your favorite spirits, spending the day on the beach getting hammered. There is beach service all along the beach where one can rent beach chairs and a sun umbrella for the day. Many of the local bars and restaurants offer you drinks meal delivered to you where you are stationed on the beach. They bring a table with short legs and position it so you don't even have to get up.
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Venezuela's resort island wiped out by economic crisis
(16 Sep 2016) This resort town was once mobbed with international tourists who loved the sparkling blue water, fine white sand and flawless sunny days.
Now, swimming pools are empty, toilets don't flush and many hotels can't afford to offer meal service.
Crisis-wracked Venezuela is giving the island community of 600,000 a last-minute cleanup as the government prepares to host leaders from the developing world for a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement.
But all the attention can't hide the steep decline the island has suffered as the socialist country sinks into economic and social collapse.
One of the most maddening problems for locals is daily water cuts government critics blame on lack of infrastructure maintenance.
Hotel owner Luis Munoz says he counts himself lucky to see running water every two weeks.
Munoz left his job as an engineer six years ago to open a colonial-style hotel on the beach here with 46 rooms. Until recently, he was doing well, catering to international tourists, well-do-to Venezuelans and groups of school children on government-sponsored trips.
Now, every day has become a struggle.
We are offering rooms when we don't offer towels, we don't offer soap in the bathrooms, we don't offer toilet paper, he said, standing in his hotel lobby without a guest in sight.
Overall hotel occupancy has fallen to 35 percent this year, according to the local tourist board. Flights into the island are down 50 percent.
The crash has been devastating to people working in tourism, who are also grappling with the severe shortages and raging inflation plaguing the rest of the country.
Like most Venezuelans, Munoz, 42, passes hours each week waiting in lines to try to buy basic goods at subsidised prices.
He manages to keep his hotel's murky pool filled from a well. But food shortages have forced him to suspend meal service.
Top officials flying in from around the world this week for the summit of the Cold War-era Non-Aligned Movement will see infrastructure from Margarita Island's glory days, including large waterfront hotels and three sprawling shopping centers featuring high-end stores, though they are now mostly empty.
World leaders attending the summit include Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Bolivian President Evo Morales and Ecuador President Rafael Correa.
From the outside, the site that will host the summit, the Hotel Venetur Margarita, still looks like it could be a five-star hotel in Miami or Aruba. It was once managed by Hilton International, and in 2009, housed the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe.
Former President Hugo Chavez later expropriated the hotel.
Last month, water cuts put the lobby bathrooms out of service. Workers placed jugs of water in the bathroom for guests to wash their hands.
International tourists have begun to shun Venezuela in recent years as it has become one of the most violent countries in the world, and a complex currency system makes it difficult to change money.
A decade ago, 40 percent of Margarita Island tourists came from abroad, according to Chamber of Tourism President Igor Viloria. Now just four percent of tourists are international.
And while many Venezuelans continue to spend weekends on the beach, few can afford a plane ticket and hotel.
Instead, more people make day trips to the coast, or camp out overnight to save money.
That's left the business community here reeling, with no help in sight. Julio Gonzalez is struggling to keep his bathing suit and towel shop open.
Sales are down 70 percent this year, he said as he gazed out on Playa El Agua, a nearly deserted white-sand beach.
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Venezuela - Margarita - Deserted Beach Resort
Due to massive security issues in the country, this resort was virtually a ghost town.
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MARGARITA ISLAND, VENEZUELA
This is a medley of scenes I have filmed all over Margarita island, it is full of interesting people, places and things to see and do. It is a view of the island from a different perspective, because usually videos about Margarita island just show the beaches, hotels, fishing and tours. So hopefully this will give a slightly more diverse view of the island. I have a lot more to film and add to this channel, so if you enjoy this video please subscribe to see more as I add them. And if you would like information about Margarita island feel free to send me a message or comment.
Venezuela opposition leader tours Margarita Island
(20 Jul 2019) Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido hosted a public rally Saturday on the final day of his three-day visit to Margarita Island, off Venezuela's Caribbean coast.
Several thousand people attended the rally, part of Guaido's nationwide tour aimed at gathering support to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
Guaido said the Venezuelan people still had time to rescue their country and pledged not to let Maduro continue in power.
Margarita Island was one of Venezuela's foremost travel destinations until tourist numbers started to decline, as the country's economic collapse caused shortages of basic amenities such as water and electricity.
One of the people at the rally, local restaurant owner Rosmery Gonzalez, said it was now difficult to make a living.
And Claudio Frizzo, a Venezuelan accountant who had been going on holiday to Margarita Island for years, said Venezuelan people could not afford to go on vacations any more.
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Isla Margarita, Coche beach island Badeinsel - Venezuela Carribean Karibik
Wiki: Coche ist die zweitgrößte der drei Inseln, die den venezolanischen Staat Nueva Esparta bilden, nach der viel größeren Isla Margarita und vor der nur spärlich bewohnten Insel Cubagua. Sie liegt etwa auf halbem Weg zwischen der Araya-Halbinsel und der Insel Margarita.
Isla de Coche (Coche Island) is one of three islands forming the Nueva Esparta State of Venezuela, located in the Caribbean between Isla Margarita and the mainland. The other two islands are Isla Margarita, the main island of the state, and Cubagua, the smallest.
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Latin American jails are usually dark places. But San Antonio Prison in Venezuela could be mistaken for a holiday resort, with its swimming pool, food stalls and overnight accommodation for guests.
This is a surreal paradise. They are safer here than anywhere else in the city, says psychologist Karina Hum. It's so good that many don't want to leave. But behind the dance parties and families having fun in the sunshine, the world of drugs, guns and violence is still evident. The man in charge is El Conejo, a powerful and famous jailed gangster. The government here does not control anything at all, says Carlos Nieto Palma, who runs a non-government organisation that monitors the prisons. Recognising the authority of criminals solves a big problem in the prison system, but it also means turning a blind eye to what criminals do best. We are promoting a penitentiary revolution, says Prisons Minister Iris Varela.
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VENEZUELA ISLAND HOPPING | Adventure Travel Vlog 2019
Venezuela, a jewel in South America. This travel vlog is episode 4 of our experience as tourists in a country in a pressure cooker.
The Venezuela Crisis has been in the spotlight for quite some time now, and with an invite from a local friend Sandy, we set out to explore this beautiful country despite what it had been saying in the news.
What we found was an incredible country which took our hearts.
We begin this episode landing back in Puerto Ordaz from seeing Angel Falls in Canaima National Park. From there, my Canadian friend Sandy, who has been living in Venezuela for over 3 years, picks us up for a roadtrip.
We drive 4 hours north to the town he is living in called Lecheria, near Barcelona, Venezuela. We then go island hopping to visit Isla Faro, and that's where we encounter our first run in with trouble... Cacti and Snakes.
The outro of this video was re-recorded after the incident when humanitarian aid was stopped by Maduro at the border between Venezuela and Colombia.
Our hearts go out the the Venezuelan people. Myself and my travel companion Lexie Alford visited this beautiful place late 2018, with the mission to show another side of a country in crisis. We planned to show the beauty of the people, and the natural beauty of the country.
This is not a video about the current economical or political situation. This is a Venezeula travel vlog of what we experienced as tourists.
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