The sands of time pass slowly in Venezuela’s Los Roques

VENEZUELA, which is on the shoulder of South America that opens out to the Caribbean Sea, is famous for its beaches.

But Los Roques, an archipelago of hundreds of islands and rocks, and a national park, is not widely known about outside Venezuela.

Los Roques is beautiful and unadulterated, like a castaway island in a cartoon strip, with green, glassy lagoons, quiet coves and miles and miles of pristine, soft, white sand. Apart from the islands’ physical beauty, their great glory is that they’re uninhabited.