What is $50 for in a day of walking through Caracas?

50 US dollars add up to almost 10 minimum wages in Venezuela, according to the BCV rate of March 31 (24.52 Bs/$). Due to the low income of citizens, recreational walks have ceased to be a priority for many, despite the various benefits for development that leisure activities generate in children and adolescents, as well as for the rest of the family. . In SuchWhich we did a tour of some places and recreational spaces in Caracas in order to investigate what can be done with $50 in a day of walking around the city

Recreational and leisure activities rank last on the list of priorities for many families.

For many, the time of family outings through various areas of Caracas was sealed off under a list of priorities and unavoidable commitments and endless pending to attend to, whose hierarchization puts away the aspirations that many people have to take a walk, without haste, through the city. , despite the benefits they have for people, mainly children and adolescents.

Despite this, in SuchWhich the exercise of planning a day for a walk through the capital city was carried out, taking advantage of the Easter holiday; this as part of the series of works that the medium has been presenting to show what is “the ability to The Grant in Caracas”, a ticket that is characterized by the image of the 18th president of the United States Ulysses S. Grant and the Capitol.

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which places you can visit

El Calvario, Los Caobos Park, the National Art Gallery and museums like Fine arts and the one of Sciencesare some family options that will work this weekend and in which you can save money on tickets: the access to all is free.

Of them, only the park Los Caobos has food and beverage sales options within its facilities. The offer ranges from soups, tequeños, hot dogs and soft drinks, to Chinese rice, cakes and beers, mainly on weekends.

Meal prices range from $1.5 for a hot dog to $7 for soup.

The price of a portion of tequeños is $3.5; cakes are $3, while coffee, sodas, and beers are $1 each.

The commercial activity inside and outside the place starts at 10:00 am. In the facilities of this park the most common activities are walks, outdoor exercises, groups that practice juggling with fabrics, dance therapy, and recreational activities, among others.

The museums of the capital are located in the same area. In the Fine Arts there are four rooms where they have exhibitions of photographs, paintings and architecture. While the Science Museum exhibits are about fossils, colors, sounds and taxidermied animals.

Fine Arts Walk

Museum of Fine Arts, a neoclassical-inspired building designed by the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva | Photo: File

These places, next to the National Art Gallery, which exhibits works of art from the 18th and 19th centuries. They will work this weekend from Thursday, April 6 to Sunday, April 9 at the following hours: from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.

After the tour of the park and the museums, you can close the day with lunch or dinner in Bellas Artes, an area that offers a wide variety of options that vary in prices and portions and that can be adjusted to the tightest pockets.

The cheapest food options are the following: family pizza combo and a liter and a half soda, at $15; hot dogs, at $1.5; grill, at $27, tobo beers (10 units) at $7 and a detailed dollar.

For dessert, the cakes are between $1.5 and $3, while the sundaes are $1.5 each.

You can get to all these places using the Caracas Metro, whose fare is 2 bolivars per person, older adults and children under 3 years old do not pay. The price of the ticket in superficial transport is Bs7 and the taxi ranks, depending on the zone, can have a cost between $5 and $10.

SuchWhich was based on a family of five members (father, mother, grandmother and two children), to offer them a guide on which places to visit and what you can pay with $50 for a day out.