Quote: (09-03-2016 10:31 AM)Off The Reservation Wrote:
Some more tidbits.
My Venezuelan friends tell me that now if you fly there commercial most of the luggage gets robbed between the plane landing and the baggage claim.
If you are not robbed inside the airport personally you might get robbed or robbed and killed in an ambush on the highway from the airport.
If you are traveling in other countries in South America you see ads on tv for a hotel in Caracas that is advertising armored doors on each room.
One of my friends was robbed by police and was likely saved because hotel security drew guns on the police and ordered them to leave.
Have a nice trip.
Amazing. Venezuela was one of the richest countries in S America in the 80's. 30 years later its as if the Romans abandoned the British Isles. To my understanding there are plenty of areas in Caracas you don't walk down during the day or you will get killed.