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Los roques and angel falls, are top destinations in the world. In los roques in most places you should be able to use USD in cash. Credit cards are accepted but they will charge you an exchange rate of 672 Bs per USD, when in reallity it is about 3000 Bs per USD. It is recommended to bring cash and use that or exchange it to someone you KNOW. Make all plans and arrangements before getting to Los Roques, and make sure the hotels have food, water, electricity and everything is fine. Angel Falls, if a whole different thing. You should be able to get a plane from Los roques to Canaima (at least it was available in the past). Or if not you will have to do like 2 stopovers.

This is not the time to go to Venezuela for 2 reasons:

1.- There are no currency bills in the country, the highest denomination bill "100bs" (about 4cents in USD) is getting a recall and is not gonna be valid soon. SO if you were to exchange 100 Dollars into Bs they will give you a bag with 12,000 20bs bills! Insane, and it wont last you for much... (remember credit cards are not working and the places were it works it is at a very very bad exchange rate).

2.- Due to the bill recall there are huge lines and chaos to return it in time. And since the bill is so low in value people have TONS and TONS, not even kidding! This has spark riots everywhere and looting, since people LITERALLY dont have cash or credit card access to pay for food, and other goods. There has been many lootings. It is important to note that the most severe protest and looting are in Bolivar state which is where angel's falls are.

Hope this helps.

Sources:

My family, friends in the country

https://twitter.com/OSACState/status...rc=twsrc%5Etfw

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.36f658a0abb7

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38336054

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nati...121211488.html