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Moped Rental Holguín
3 Reviews We rented mopeds and drove to many villages nearby and met the local cubans. Had a tour of their homes and learned a bit about their culture and everyday life. With us we brought many gifts for young...
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Beaches Santiago de Cuba
1 Review Take the road from Santiago, east to Siboney Beach. On the way, you will pass twenty-six white monuments in memory of the heroes who died during the attack on the Moncada Barracks with Castro. At the...
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Nature Trinidad
10 Reviews Valle de los Ingenios, unesco world heritage site, also known as Valle de San Luis, on the road to Sancti Spiritus, east of Trinidad. We passed in this valley during our trip to Santa Clara, there is...
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Malecon Cienfuegos
5 Reviews Next to the club another pearl of renovation and architecture in Cienfuegos Walking from the Hotel Jagua till the historical center of Cienfuegos will take about 45 minutes.But during day time you...
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Nature Holguín
5 Reviews Many Cuban houses and farms off the road resemble this one. Some of them do not have doors or windows as it is too hot. Around the house you will most likely see chicken, cats and dogs... feel free to...
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Nature Santiago de Cuba
4 Reviews La Gran Piedra up in the Sierra Maestra is a splendit tropical rain forrest. From La Gran Piedra you can see all of Santiago de Cuba and on a clear day you can see as far out as Jamaica...
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Local Arts Trinidad
2 Reviews A typical scenary in Trinidad - near the famous tower - making and selling handicrafts !! There is often a local market selling their products. To visit the tower itself - you have to pay a little fee...
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Beaches Cienfuegos
2 Reviews Before we reached Cienfuegos, we went for a nice relaxing swim. The water was beautiful and warm, the sand on the beach had a nice white colour. There was hardly anyone on the beach thus our tour...
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Religion in Cuba Santiago de Cuba
1 Review You will find some religious monuments in Santiago dated from the spanish period - like in the house of the former conqueror of this island - Diego Velasquez. But the actual religious situation is not...
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About Cigars Trinidad
1 Review Go and visit one of the tabacco farms. The local farmer will offer you a cup of coffee and .... a cigar - special and unique production. The skill of these craftsmen is remarkable. Smokers think that...
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Nature/Eco tourism Cienfuegos
5 Reviews About 85 kms west of Cienfuegos is the town of Australia on the main highway. Turning south at that point takes you into the ZAPATA PENNISULA, three quarters of which is a swamp with lagoons and...
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Local People Trinidad
1 Review As usual in most of the cities - a "Casa de la Trova" to be visited - this time in Trinidad My second trip to this beautiful country was highlighted by visiting the local people - just a great...
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Castillo de Jagua Cienfuegos
1 Review One can take a ferry from Cienfuegos across the Bahia de Cienfuegos to the Castillo de Jagua opposite. The ferry point is near Av 46, between Calle 25 and Calle 27. The first ferry of the day departs...
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These are the very long and impressive stairs lead from the village of El Cobre to the actual basilica containing the Cuban shrine outside of Santiago de Cuba. It's free to enter but most Cubans make offerings of flowers to El Cobre while some of the foreigners have left more substantial offerings that are on display. Hemmingway left his Nobel prize but thatis no longer on display.Taxifare to El Cobre and El Moro is about $20 to $25 roundtrip.
One afternoon, I headed off for a walk with a guide and a bunch of other people. We walked for about an hour and saw a small local farm. It had exotic birds (peacock, guinea fowl, parrot) and animals (small crocodile and tree rat). It also had lots of tropical fruit "on the hoof" so to speak and a splendid view.
Many people never venture to this poor town. The resort offered a tour to Trindad, Cuba on the west coast. When you visit this town, it's like stepping back into time to visit the Spanish Colonialism era. Old cars, antiques, and Spanish architecture give charm and history to this village.
Fidel SpeechThe speech held in plaza de la republica in habana.it was a hilerious situation to see all the people that where obligated to be there.. or the BIG brother will know...All the shops that day where closed due to the speech, and the people there shouted "Patria o Muerte..." - homeland or death.. a scary little sentence. But well.. its a communist country, so it should be expected to be like that.(they didn't let us take a pic of fidel himself)
Cayo Levisa, part of the Archipiélago de los Colorados, with a long, sandy beach and reef running parallel to the shore, with good snorkelling and scuba diving (lots of fish). Cayo Levisa is 15 minutes by boat from Palma Rubia.
María La Gorda, in the middle of nowhere, reputedly the best diving centre in Cuba and an idyllic spot for relaxing or doing nothing but diving. The sea is very clear, very warm and calm, even when it is too rough to dive anywhere else in Cuba. There is good snorkelling with small coral heads close to the white sand beach, or you can go out on the dive boat.
Do go to Playa Santa Lucia,1 and a half hour drive from Camaguey.There are hotels along a wonderful beach and a superb coral reef is here. Diving here is great and it is peaceful .Coconut Beach is 3 miles from here and it is one of Cuba's best beaches.There are small resraurant shacks on the beach selling fish.I loved it here,it is not to be missed.Beautiful Coconut beach.
Go to Trinidad which is 45 miles east from Cienfuegos and the road skirts the foothills of the Sierra del Escambray.Forested mountains provide a fitting backdrop to this quiet bewitching town.Restored mansions have been made into museums,while art galleries,craft shops and resrayrants are in the lovely old buildings.There are coloured bulidings and cobbled streets and banana groves.Best of all ,there is no traffic because of the streets surface.The 20th c entury has not touched this place at all,it is so peaceful.
The Yumuri River is near Baracoa which is in Guantanamo Province. The river lets out to the ocean so there is a little break there for surfing. They see surfers every once in awhile and my husband enjoyed his day of surf there. The people do have tourists there every once in awhile but not that often. We asked a guy we picked up about the surf and he told us of the area, we would never have been able to find it with out him.The locals there are terrific. If going there take along some old clothes like shirts or sandals for them and you will be much appreciated!
An all-inclusive resort was added to my plane ticket to Santiago de Cuba for $50 more. I was taken to the isolated resort west of Santiago. You could pay the driver of the bus that transports the workers to and from Santiago for $5. I immediately left the resort and toured Santiago and Guantanamo for ten days and it was awesome. I then decided to go back to the resort and get my money's worth of food and beer. Well, the free food and beers were very good but I was getting bored very quickly! So with one whole day left I rented a moped! Some of the other younger tourists had rented them and showed me their scars from accidents with the many potholes on the road. I was not deterred! With a one minute orientation, I was off and determined not to flip over like the others. I went further west on a road that goes nowhere and therefore very little traffic other than some delivery trucks and...
Villa Las Brujas Cuba
2 Reviews and 51 Opinions I could have chosen Okay but some problems, but I still think it falls too short to express how...
NH Parque Central Havana
8 Reviews and 1269 Opinions This is a jewel of a hotel, located just a block or two away from Old Havana, and the shops of Calle...
Iberostar Varadero Varadero
5 Reviews and 1871 Opinions great food gained 5 lbs on the french sauces whatch out for the car rental guy Frank , he takes the...
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Q: We're hoping to do Eastern Cuba in December, we've already done the west. I'm trying to book flights, ideally from Manchester. I...
A: flights domestically it is, aerocaribbean do it, as you are in Manchester check the Cuban tourist office http://www.travel2cuba.co.uk/ hope it helps cheers
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