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Rob&Giz Says: You can make a tour through the Vinales Valley on the back of a horse. We did a 4 hour tour (5 CUC per hour) and went to a cave with a small lake at the where you could swim.We also got an demonstration of making juice from sugar canes and making cigars.
Luchonda Says: The Province West of Habana, one of the more special Cuba's, but also the poorest provinces of Cuba. Center of tobacco plantations, cultivated in the Vuelta regio is among the world's bestPS Pictures in this tip are taken by Kathleen, a good friendThe best souvenir and...
xaver Says: Vinales valley is a carsic area with many grottos.There are at least three grottos that tourists can visit and most popular is the cueva del indio.Once you are in Vinales park, the visit of the grotto starts with a walk of about 200 meters inside the mountain.The grotto is...
xaver Says: All around the valley there are many tobacco plantations and tobacco farm with their caracteristic house with wooden roof.Here tobacco is cultivated in a traditional way, just like they did decades ago.What surprised me most anyway was seing coffe plants growing wild,...
xaver Says: Vinales valley is an unique example of carsic landscape where agriculture did not change for hundreds of year, looking around at tobacco plants and farms, is somehoe like going back in the past, a sensation that we learned to feel also later in our Cuba trip.This landscape,...
tim07 Says: The cave was discovered in 1920. The first part of the tour is on foot, the tunnels are artificially lit so that the various rock formations are highlighted. The final part of the tour is by a small motorboat on the underground San Vicente river.Near to the cave are souvenir...
tim07 Says: Painted on the face of a mogote by the Cuban painter Leovigildo Gonzalez, the mural represents the history of evolution. The mural uses the cracks in the rock to create special effects of light & colour.The mural can be viewed from far away, to view close up there is an...
rafgys Says: The whole western Cuba is suppose to have the best tobacco in the world, outside of Viñales you’ll see plenty of plantations… of course, it depends on the time of the year (it’s a seasonal harvest).If you have some extra time while visiting the area, hike around or hire a...
Cueva Palmarita (o Del Silencio)
rafgys Says: I believe the only way to get to the cave is with a guide… you can hike all the way around the ‘mogotes’, or you can also hire a horse riding excursion. It usually costs 5 CUC the hour and it takes about four hours. You go through some tobacco fields, make some stops to see...
xaver Says: Fortunatly during our excursion to Vinales we stopped in this restaurant to have lunch, this infact, had been the only time that we stayed in a restaurant during all our trip in Cuba.We had nothing against restaurant but the food in the casa particulares was so good that we...
Restaurant at Hotel La Ermita: Not the greatest Cuban Fare
cochinjew Says: Ordinary food at best. Nothing special. But keep in mind, you dont come to Cuba for gourmet delights and you have to get used to lack of variety in taste.cheaper than casa particular food and just about the same everyday quality to food. A great setting though. Mojito at 2...
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There are few option at night in Viñales, two of them are bad looking bars… and then you have the Centro Cultural, which doesn’t mean it looks great… but it’s bigger and definitively looks better than anything else.
What you’ll find there is plenty of beer and rum, plus salsa or afro-Cuban shows every night… lot of dancing and fun, and after the show it turns into some sort of nightclub.
Dress Code: Casual ...
Written May 8, 2007
henri123 Says: From Habana, take a "transfer" from any large hotel , you get on a nice small, modern ,chineese Yutong bus. It will be the same price as Viazul but it is much easier and it will be part of a tour with a local guide; with stops in a tobacco farm and a rhum factory.
xaver Says: We decided to visit Vinales in a day, so we got a day trip.We bought the trip at hotel Habana Libre agency cubanacan, it costed us 55 cuc lunch included.We left at 8 am and got back about 7 pm, you can choose an elgish speaking guide or a spanish speacking one and as far as...
xaver Says: Cuban highway is definitly an experience.The first time that I saw the highway was coming from Havana to Vinales and I first noticed that there was no traffic then, we started to meet farmers hitchhiking in the street and then bikers and finally even carts drawn by horses.It...
rafgys Says: The ‘novela’ is something almost every Cuban watches! It’s some sort of TV show, extremely popular at night.When I went to Viñales it was from 9 to 10 PM (or so)… and the whole town was dead till it was over. I mean, nightlife didn’t exist until after 10 or 10:30 PM!!
xaver Says: In any guide you will read that in Vinales you can visit the prehistorical murales.Calling those murales prehistorical gives you the idea that they had been made thousends years ago.Well actually they have been made in 1961 and the name"prehistorical" was given to them just...
Waiting for Viazul Bus to arrive
cochinjew Says: Desparate Casa Particular Owners line up behind the cordon, offering their homes for tourists to stay. This kind of tourism is declining in Cuba, so the home owners are a bit more desparate than before and it is evident at their panicky behaviour. Three was a time when...
henri123 Says: After a nice walk among the mogotes and caves in the valley of Vinales, it is a good idea to spend a day or two in this intersting village along the road. Friendly people, good food in casa particular, quiet central avenue and always not far from the country side
leffe3 Says: Its the countryside and a chance to relax that is the attraction of Vinales. The pace is slow, the countryside stunning, commercial development low. The fabulous scenery, the dramatic changes following a storm, the relaxation and the hotel Los Jazmines
At the beginning we thought to spend a few days in Vinales but once in Cuba, we soon realised that a day trip was enough for what we were interested in.
Vinales is a small town to the west of Havana in the tobacco and fruit growing region of Pinar del Rio. Lying in the valley of the Sierra de los Organos, the surrounding landscape is distinctive and...
I took a day trip from Havana to this famous valley with unusual conical hills. It was definitely worth the 2-hour drive! The area was covered with tobacco fields, where Cuba's finest are grown here.
Viñales is a very charming little village nestled amoungst mogotes: large rounded limestone formations and large tobacco farms. The main draw here seems to be the limestone caves, the cigar factories...
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