Venezuela is one of Latin America' s great unknowns.
The country has been traditionally bypassed by the "gringo trail" that winds from Mexico City" to Tierra del Fuego, and travelers who have visited almost everywhere else in the region confess to never being lured to its shores.

Even foreign journalists who regularly" cover South America have been known to shrug and ask: "What's in Venezuela ­besides oil?"
This is largely a hold over from the 1970s, when petrol-rich Venezuela was one of the most expensive countries on the planet and Venezuelans were the tourists, not the hosts.
It is an unfortunate tourism that travelers often benefit from a country's economic woes, and With the local currency' s decline, Venezuela has become a bargain destination.

First gaining attention for its 2500 km (1750 miles) of pristine Caribbean coastline, Venezuela is now beginning to be the hotspot of the Americas.