- What to bring beautiful from Venezuela?
- Delicious goods
- Traditional gifts
Venezuelan tour operators claim that the country has a huge tourism potential, which is not yet fully appreciated by foreign guests. There are beautiful natural attractions, historical monuments, and a unique culture here. And when asked what to bring from Venezuela, the list appears quite impressive. Below is an overview of the most striking Venezuelan gifts and souvenirs that will please any person.
What to bring beautiful from Venezuela?
Most of all, children and women are waiting for gifts from another country, and if the first category is easy enough to please by giving a kilogram of sweets, cookies and bright magnets, then with the fair sex everything is much more complicated. But Venezuela will help out any tourist as the country is famous for its pearl jewelry. Of all the regions of the country, the island of Margarita is most famous for its beautiful pearl jewelry.
The following precious things are very popular among women: beads (the sizes of pearls vary from small ones, comparable to beads, to weighty ones, equal to a good pea); earrings and pendants, gifts from the pearl oyster, framed with precious metals; kits that allow you to instantly create the desired image. Pearl jewelry is sold in different places, the most expensive - in hotels, a little cheaper - in specialized stores. You can also buy them on the market, where prices are much lower, but, unfortunately, there are skillful fakes.
In addition to pearls, Venezuela is famous for its gold and silver products; the largest shopping center is located in Caracas. Visitors to Edifisio de Francia, even on the way to it, hear loud cries like “buy gold!”. It is this tradition of luring buyers that has existed in Venezuela for centuries.
Delicious goods
Of course, Venezuela is still lagging behind other Latin and South American countries in promoting its alcohol brands. The first places are firmly held by Cuban rum, but rum made on Venezuelan lands is not much inferior in taste to the “neighbor's” one. It is a good "masculine" gift, and is used by locals (and guests as well) as a medicinal product to help raise the pressure that drops in the heat, and as a disinfectant, which is also very important in hot, humid climates.
Households leading a sober lifestyle, as well as children, will like another drink that can be brought from this country - cocoa. The aroma of real chocolate becomes a wonderful memory of a sultry exotic country, especially if it is windy, cold and snowy in your homeland at this time. Cocoa is well served with Venezuelan chocolate, which is produced in large enterprises and small companies. Instead of cocoa, you can buy coffee, which is medium roasted and has a delicate aroma.
Traditional gifts
Venezuelans are as skilled artisans as their close and distant neighbors across the continent. That is why guests do not miss the opportunity not to walk around the markets in towns and cities in order to find something exotic, truly Venezuelan. Most often, the following goods leave the country in the suitcases of tourists: woven products, which will be an excellent decoration for any interior; clay dolls of Negrita; wickerwork.
Venezuelan dolls always cause only admiration, they are sculpted from clay, resemble local beauties, dressed in bright traditional outfits. Tourists will have the same emotions at the sight of wicker products, which are distinguished by the uniqueness of the material used in the work and the originality of the technology, which has no analogues in the world. The branches of the local tree Koria act as a material (it grows only in Venezuela). It is distinguished by its extraordinary color, the wood simply shimmers in the sun.
Other wood crafts are also popular in Venezuela; figurines of men and women carved from dark, almost black wood look especially exquisite. Caskets, dishes (cups, plates, bowls) are sold well. From the more exotic souvenirs in the country, you can buy ritual masks, stylized as old ritual face plates that were used by some indigenous inhabitants. A peculiar symbol of local rivers is a predatory piranha fish, so in many souvenir shops you can find dried stuffed animals of a terrible predator, additionally painted in bright colors.
Another product adored by foreign travelers is hammocks, which are made by hand from rough natural fabric, painted in rich, bold colors. Such a gift will definitely remind you of your vacation. There are regions on the territory of Venezuela, whose inhabitants have especially distinguished themselves in the skill of making suspended sunbeds - this is the Varao tribe living in the delta of the great Orinoco. Hammock material is used to create other beautiful and practical items, including bags and backpacks.
