RickL Says: If you read Spanish you can always pass some time at the public library. Nice building anyway.
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...
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: 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!
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...
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!:(
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: This is the Public Market building downtown. Inside you can buy fresh fruit, vegetables and meat.
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Unsignposted paladares do exist in Guantanamo despite what some guidebooks will tell you. They are harder to find but you can get complete meals for $1-2!!!
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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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