Socialist Dreams & Beauty Queens - author interview
It's always good to see a new book about Venezuela, especially a travel book, and Jamie Maslin's "Socialist Dreams and Beauty Queens" does not disappoint. The author not only takes his readers on a...
View ArticleBradt Guide to Venezuela: At home with the author Russell Maddicks
Author, translator and traveller Russell Maddicks discusses his latest book: "The Bradt Guide to Venezuela" in a short film directed and shot at his house in Caversham by Reading film maker Jorge Franca.
View ArticleHato Masaragual, Los Llanos and Orinoco Caiman on BBC
Veteran BBC presenter Jonathan Dimbleby visits Hato Masaguaral, a ranch in the plains of Los LLanos Venezuela, that breeds an endangered species of crocodile commonly know as the Caiman del Orinoco,...
View ArticleBradt Venezuela author at Globetrotters Club - 1 Oct 2011
Exploring Venezuela: A Land of Natural Wonders Russell Maddicks, the author of the Bradt Guide to Venezuela will highlight some of the most fascinating areas of Venezuela to visit and what you can...
View ArticleVenezuelan Soap Stars in London - Esperando Al Italiano
By Russell Maddicks Anybody who's followed a Venezuelan telenovela, or soap opera, will have heard of Carolina Perpetuo or Hilda Abrahamz, two legends of the small screen who've played everything from...
View ArticleVenezuelan beauty Ivian Sarcos wins Miss World 2011
Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares, a 21-year-old from Guanare in Venezuela's Portuguesa State, beat 120 of the world's most beautiful women to win the coveted Miss World crown in London on Sunday, 6...
View ArticleMiss World promotes Venezuela at World Travel Market
Wilmer Sifontes (maracas), Diego la Verde (harp), and Jose "Chebeto" Requena (cuatro) entertain visitors to the Venezuelan stand at the World Travel Market in Excel, London. By Russell Maddicks The...
View ArticleRoraima bush toad escapes tarantula in spectacular BBC film
This amazing footage from the BBC series Life shows how a hopless pebble toad uses a remarkable escape strategy when faced with a predator, in this case a tarantula spider. But have David Attenborough...
View ArticleVenezuela author to speak at Adventure Travel Show, London
Russell Maddicks, author of the Bradt Guide to Venezuela, will give an illustrated talk about travelling in Venezuela at the Telegraph Adventure Travel Show at Olympia, London, on 28 January. Saturday...
View ArticleCalypso is king of Venezuela's El Callao carnival
The 2012 Carnival has already kicked off in El Callao with beauty contests and calypso competitions but the big processions start Saturday 18 February - Tuesday 21 February, and end on Ash Wednesday...
View ArticleBritish climbers scale Venezuela's Autana Tepuy
By Russell Maddicks A British expedition led by UK climber Leo Houlding has made the first successful ascent of the east face of Venezuela's Cerro Autana - a remote, flat-topped tepuy mountain in the...
View ArticleCulture Smart! Venezuela - My New Book is Out
Culture Smart! Venezuela - My new book about Venezuelan culture, language, history, music, jokes, business etiquette and travel comes out a few days before the presidential election. Can't believe...
View ArticleVenezuela Folk Saint Jose Gregorio Hernandez is 148
Venezuelans will be lighting a candle today for the country's most popular folk saint, Dr Jose Gregorio Hernandez, who was born on 26 October 1846 in the small Andean pueblo of Isnotú, Trujillo State....
View ArticleVenezuela's Dancing Devils make UN World Heritage List
Venezuela's historic and very unique tradition of masked devil dancing, known as the Diablos Danzantes, which takes place in some 14 towns and villages each year to celebrate the Catholic Feast of...
View ArticleVenezuela Guide on Instagram - FITVen2013
INSTAGRAMEANDO ANDO YO... In October 2013 I was invited to travel around Venezuela on a Press Trip organized by the Tourism Ministry (MinTur) in the run up to the FITVen2013 International Tourism...
View ArticleFITVen2013 - Talking Tourism in Venezuela
After writing a tour guide and book about living in Venezuela it was good to spend time talking tourism at Venezuela's International Tourism Fair, FITVen 2013. I even got interviewed a few times by...
View ArticleMerida Cable Car to Re-Open Mid-2014 as Mukumbari
This short but enlightening film, "En lo Mas Alto", shows exactly the working conditions I encountered on my trip on the cable car at the end of October as part of the FITVen2013 press trip with the...
View ArticleMariano Rangel: Merida Sculptor Carves Life into Wood
Mariano Rangel is a Venezuelan folk artist from Tabay, Merida, and something of a local legend. Born in 1944, he is completely self-taught. He worked as a farmer until 1984, when one day his wife...
View ArticleAnimal Planet: Giant Anacondas in Venezuela
Local Venezuelan guide Juan Carlos Ramirez of Akanan Adventure and Travel recently took scientist-explorer Niall McCann on a hunt for giant anacondas in Los Llanos and the Rio Caura for the programme...
View ArticleParagliding in the Venezuelan Andes
Author of the Bradt Guide to Venezuela Takes to the Air in Merida On October 26, while taking part in the Venezuelan International Tourism Fair (FITVen2013) in Merida, I did a tandem flight from...
View ArticleWhitewater Rafting in Barinas
Whitewater Rafting in Barinas State: The Merida-based adventure tour company Arassari Trek took me on a bumpy, adrenaline-pumping ride down a Grade III stretch of foaming rapids on the Rio Acequias in...
View ArticleVenezuelan San Pedro Festival Recognized by UNESCO
Venezuelan Folk Festival for San Pedro Recognized by UNESCO -- A centuries-old Venezuelan folk festival called the Parranda de San Pedro, which is celebrated in the small towns of Guarenas and Guatire...
View ArticleMargarita Pays Homage to the Virgen del Valle
The Basilica of the Virgen del Valle in the Valley of Espiritu Santo in Venezuela's Margarita Island is a pastel-pink chapel that houses an image of the Virgin Mary that dates back to the 1530s. (All...
View ArticleVenezuela's Mini Miracle - The Coromoto Virgin
Venezuela celebrates a miracle in the first week of September with pilgrimages and processions in honour of Our Lady of Coromoto (Nuestra Señora de Coromoto), the Patroness of Venezuela. The main...
View ArticleAngel Falls in National Geographic Traveller
South America: Off the Tourist Map From a Witches’ Market in Suriname to storm chasing in Venezuela, a world of unexpected adventure awaits those who dare to delve into the less-explored corners of...
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