5 days/4 nights: $865 per person
extra night: $210 per person
Prices based on double occupancy
Please note: due to National Park restrictions
and other factors, an exact day-by-day itinerary cannot
be guaranteed.
Venezuela's archipelago, Los Roques, consists
of over 365 islands, and os located about 60 miles off
the north coast of Venezuela. The area is home to coral
reefs that remain as yet undiscovered by most divers and
fisherman. Healthy reef systems are packed with marine
life, and contain thick forests of soft coral, long stretches
of virgin hard coral, black coral bushes, brain corals,
mounds of star coral and great clusters of grey and brown
gorgonia. These warm, unspoiled, azure and aquamarine
waters contain as many fish as were found in Belize, Cozumel
or the north wall of Cayman 30 years ago.
Although of the same reef system as Aruba,
Bonaire and Curacao, this Los Roques' coral reef is no
underwater petting zoo. Designated a National Park, all
sites in the archipelago are limited to 10 divers, so
you get the intimate feeling of diving in untamed, untouched
waters. Most often, you and your companions will be the
only divers in any given area. Visibility varies, but
can reach as far as 100 feet.
No matter where you dive, you will marvel
at immense swirling schools of fish: armies of glassy
sweepers, southern sennet, spotted drum, jacks, Spanish
mackerel, barracuda, grouper, red, grey and yellowtail
snapper, hogfish, tarpon, queen angels, thousands of silvery
blue bogia, trumpet fish, whitespotted filefish, smooth
trunk fish, colorful tropicals, parrotfish, porcupine
puffers, stingrays, moray eels and more.
Included is a minimum of three dives per
day; there are enough walls, caves and house-sized caverns
to keep you busy diving for days. Among the many spectacular
dive sites are the Rock of the Jewfish, which provides
an excellent introduction to the following days of diving.
Although there are no longer any Jewfish, there is still
plenty to see during a 30-minute circumnavigation of this
sea mount. Nurse sharks are occasionally spotted at Los
Noronkys. At the coral-laden wall at Cayo Sal, you can
take a break inside a cavern at 100 feet and watch as
tens of thousands of fish swim by castles of hard coral
and tall, swaying bushes of soft corals. The wall at Punta
Salina starts at 30 feet and drops straight to 180 feet.
You can also include a visit to the Turtle Sanctuary,
located in Dos Mosquices key, aprroximately a 2 ½-hour
boat trip from Gran Roque. Here you will find an incredible
reefscape of pristine hard and soft corals.
On your final day, you will return to the
airstrip on Gran Roque for your flight to Caracas.
Contact
us to include SCUBA diving
in Los
Roques a customized itinerary of travel to Venezuela.
