My sister will be visiting Margarita Island at the same time I'm in Bonaire next year, and we'd love to connect, in either place.

Anyone have any idea of how/whether you can get between the two islands with (relative) ease. I don't think we'd want to deal with a two-day travel time. I'm guessing it would have to be via Caracas? Appreciate any insight.
Josie

Hi Josie! The route may have to be via Caracas & Curacao. However, there are vacation charters to Margarita Is. from various places, so perhaps there is a charter from Curacao that have direct flights to Margarita. I few years ago I heard of people on Bonaire taking short vacations to Margarita Is. You might check with a travel agent on Bonaire. Good luck.

Did it a few years ago on Avensa, Caracas to Curacao to Bonaire.

I looked at the area east of Bonaire on Google Earth and there's a whole bunch of little Islas between Bonaire and Isla de Margarita.

Clearly the best way to do this is to acquire decent sailing ship and go by sea, stopping for a day or two at each land sighting.

I think I heard someone once say that they went on the Oscarina, anyone else heard this?

I have had many windsurf clients want to do this but in the end, did not. There are two -three stops (Curacao, Valencia and Caracas). Investigating a private charter got me no where. The boys from Margarita come to our windsurf event via Caracas and Curacao. It is not easy and many times a flightmare. Don't even ask me about it..

Brian
I also remember that Oscarina did trips to Margarita, but so far a lot of searching has turned up nothing current. Maybe some one on island will pipe up.
Mick

My wife and I did it back in 1997. We were going with a group to Margarita for a week of windsurfing and could not pass up stopping in Bonaire if we were that close. I think the airline we used has since gone out of business and was called something like Servencia. We did have to go through Curacao and Caracas. The flight went well but did not know it was going to stop a few times at very remote runways to let people off. No one spoke any english and we had no idea where to get off. When we did get off the plain in Caracas we were the only people pulled aside and escorted into a jeep by guys with big guns. We thought we might be in trouble but as it turned out they were just helping us to get from the domestic side of the airport to the international side or vise-a-versa. It was an exiting flight and did not take that long. I hope there is still a way to do it. Good luck.

Whatever flight to Caracas (there is Transaven and another one on Bonaire) and from Caracas there are flights about every hour by different local airlines to Margarita --- if you plan it for the beginning of December, you better forget about it, that is election time in Venezuela and troubles are possible.