Merida Things to Do

Probably because of the presence of university students everywhere, the people of Mérida adopt new extreme sports as soon as they are invented and the news reaches the city. Among the latest local crazes is the "Pendulum", or b... more

This park honors some of the most outstanding academics, poets, and writers to have emerged from Mérida. You will find busts dedicated to such literary personalities as: Gonzalo Picón Febres, Emilio Menotti Sposito, Alberto Adr... more

Within the building pertaining to the rectorate of the Universidad de Los Andes, next to Plaza Bolívar, the Archaeological Museum occupies the rooms that surround a small side-garden. Belonging to the university and founded in... more

Some of the most popular and better organised excursions that are offered in the Andes surrounding Mérida, are the ones you can make from the Laguna de Mucubají. With the aid of the local Route Map, and an accompanying guide if... more

The Instituto Nacional de Parques de Venezuela (Venezuelan National Parks Institute) renders an extraordinary and titanic service, responsible as it is for the use and maintenance of the forty-nine existing national parks in Ve... more

In the south area of the city, far from downtown but easy to find, this disco boasts the largest premises in town. Actually, there are three independent disco rooms, characterized by young people, reflecting decoration and smal... more

Mérida is a world-known tourist destination, and its Corporación Merideña de Turismo (CORMETUR) is up to the challenge. It is useful to know at which points CORMETUR has tourist information booths, apart from its main office ne... more

Opened in 1985, this establishment has two ambiances. University students and tropical music lovers fill the modern upstairs disco, where they dance to the beat of maranga, salsa, rap, vallenato, and similar rhythms. Pulsar las... more

This school has its origins in the house of studies created in 1785 by Fray Juan Ramos de Lora and was upgraded to Universidad Pontificia in 1810. It was secularized in 1832 and received its present name in 1883. The student po... more

This museum is found in the Tulio Febres Cordero Cultural Centre. Founded in 1969, this museum the first of its kind in a Venezuelan city outside the capital, Caracas. It houses nearly 350 drawings, sculptures, photographs, pai... more