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toemayn Says: US Marine directed tour of the northeast gate where Cubans & we used to pass through to work or visit. Also I was privileged to see the room where military representatives of Cuba & US meet regularly.
RickL Says: If you read Spanish you can always pass some time at the public library. Nice building anyway.
Club Nevada: Nice view of the city!
RickL Says: Nice rooftop bar also serving spaghetti and sandwiches. Music was a little loud but the only view restaurant in the city! Good entertainment at night for the drinking crowd.
Luchonda Says: The restaurant is hard to reach - the circumstances in this area without doubt unique.The fields are plaved by millions of Cactusses and imagine landmines.Landmines on each side - american and cuban.The difference - americans noticed their location - Cuban army forgot to do...
RickL Says: This trip we got fed up waiting for other people to chauffeur us around. Times are difficult and it's harder to find a private taxi that is working or if the owner has enough pertrolio or gasolina and has the motivation to drive us. So we decided to buy one of these new...
Luchonda Says: An intermediate busstop in Guantanemo is a must. It was my first view on the Caribean sea-blue/green water !!Visiting the american base itself (from the Cuban side) must be arranged.It is a well controlled trip - but historicaly so important to the brave new world.As from...
RickL Says: The state runs all the $ stores and therefore even if Fidel gives thestores different names the products for sale are all the same. The only difference is there are shortages of everything from time to time. Too much. Everything is overpriced. Partly due to the Embargo and...
RickL Says: These people have a wide variety of clothes, toys, and various household articles for sale. Alway interesting to wander around and see what is being offered. Food venders are also found hanging around here. Always negotiable!
RickL Says: Here is a picture of my mother-in-law for Uwe
Watch out for shore patrol. ...
PAllen Says: Watch out for shore patrol. They're often disgruntled & pissed off because they have to play rent-a-cop instead of enjoying shore leave, so they'll mace you for the slightest reason.
Crimes against tourists are...
RickL Says: Crimes against tourists are extremely rare but crime between Cubans is common. Particularly in the eastern provinces where unemployment is high and the police are generally chosen for their political loyalty and not their expertise. My Cuban family in Guantanamo got robbed...
I don't know if politics have...
PAllen Says: I don't know if politics have changed in the last 20 years, but at that time everyone was restricted to the base. The entire base is surrounded by a high barbed-wire fence. If that isn't a tourist trap...
RickL Says: The 'zoo'. It's in the downtown section and really is not a tourist trap because they don't charge you anything for it but its very depressing to see the lion pacing back and forth in a small cage!:(
Luchonda Says: Between Santiago de Cuba and Baracoa.Along the Caribean sea - in the south of Cuba.It is a nice place - first contact with this blue/green water - but i think never a touristic beach due to the fauna and flora.But i think a place to visit due to the rich history and...
The Oriente is unique tropical...
RickL Says: The Oriente is unique tropical landscape. Beautiful isn't it? The waters are warm and inviting and colourful life under water is still bountiful and accessible. A lot of old stories scare people about the possibility of contracting Dengue fever in the eastern provinces but...
RickL Says: There is a new Etecsa office downtown that has three computers for internet use. You buy a card for 5CU for one hour. The cards are valid for all Etecsa offices around Cuba and like phone cards you don't need to use it all at once. Corner of Giro and Pedro Perez.
RickL Says: This is the Public Market building downtown. Inside you can buy fresh fruit, vegetables and meat.
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First meeting with the Caribbean Sea! "Oriente" stays for the eastern provinces like Guantanamo - birthplace of many revolutionairs - a place in Cuba rich of history-music and dances and of course the...
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I am partial to Guantanamo (pop 220 000) primarily because of the people I know there. There are few beaches and historical buildings but they do exist without the associated tourist trappings....
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I spent 6 hot weeks in the bowels of the engine room of an old steam powered Fast Frigate (USS Julius A. Furer, FFG-6 "the Jolly JAF") during a shakedown exercise in 1982, durring which time we made...
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Guantanamo - just passing through
As I said in the introduction to Cuba I used the Lonely Planet guidebook to Cuba. Its very politically correct and in its escriptions it never ever writes off anywhere. I didn't spend that much time...
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