Country Info
- Havana
- Capital
- Cuban Peso (CUP)
- Currency
- 11,184,023
- Population
- CU
- Country Code
Pinar del Rio Slideshow
Top Hotels in Pinar del Rio
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Cubanacan Hotel y Villas Marina Hemingway Vinales
11 reviews -
Horizontes La Ermita Vinales
124 reviews -
Hotel Palco Vinales
17 reviews
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Rancho San Vicente Vinales
34 reviews
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Villa Pupi Y Norma Vinales
3 reviews -
Villa Aguas Claras Vinales
7 reviews
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Villa Soroa
85 reviews -
Hotel Vueltabajo Pinar del Rio
14 reviews -
Islazul Hotel Mirador Los Palacios
3 reviews
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Hotel Cayo Levisa Pinar del Rio
158 reviews
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Hotel Gaviota Villa Cabo San Antonio Pinar del Rio
27 reviews
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Hotel Maria La Gorda Pinar del Rio
76 reviews
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Hotel Rancho San Vincente Pinar del Rio
14 reviews
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CIB Maria la Gorda Pinar del Rio
8 reviews
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Horizontes Cayo Levisa Pinar del Rio
3 reviews
Pinar del Rio
Travel Blogs from Pinar del Rio, Cuba
Cuba in Mind
This is a top pick! ... , in spite of its problems, that what this country is doing is right. I'm sure we're on the right track.'" -- Cuba cooking personality Nitza Villapol, author of what has been reproduced in English (without permission or payment) as the best-selling The ...
Chickens
This is a top pick! "Deseo la muerte de todos los pollos en Vinales." My Spanish is good enough to convey my feelings to my hostess this morning, but bad enough to get it jumbled. I originally say "por" instead of "de" thus implying a wish for a death by chicken, not the ...
My best walk in Cuba
This is a top pick! ... of talking heads. There's something odd, yet appropriate about watching Al Gore's timely cautionary view on global warning from Cuba. You can see how obscene our consumerism looks to the developing world. Trina experienced a similar displacement watching ...
Not a happy birthday
This is a top pick! ... bag of oranges from a guy selling them from the roadside, and we all slurp away in silence for a time, watching Cuba passing. Flores drives the highways between Vinales and Havana, between Varadero and Trinidad -- between all the main tourist places ...
Cuba's biggest hotel
This is a top pick! ... casa -- it's been called Cuba's biggest hotel -- so the convertibles are spread amongst the populace. The result? More Cuba-aware (less touristy) travellers, less financially screwed citizens, virtually no begging (you make better money with a casa) ...
Taking a trip up to Pinas Del Rio
This is a top pick! ... beans and rice, chicken with rice and rice or pork with beans and beans, or any combination of the above. Forth stop: Pinar Del Rio, a view over the River of Pines. Beautiful area, no more beautiful than we had been driving through all day though, Cuba ...
First glimpse of the Gulf
... in our tour bus I didn't have the same sense of connection I might have had if we were backpacking or hitchhiking through Cuba, at least we were there breathing the same dirt and seeing the smiling/confused/frowning/laughing faces of the people who call ...
Rum and Cigars - what else?
... cigar comes to be. It is all a very lengthy process. We were told that about 80% of the tobacco grown in Cuba is from Pinar del Rio province. All the cigars made at this factory were hand-rolled. Inside the factory-cum-museum we were not allowed bags or ...
Some descriptions of the countryside
We pass plowed fields and billboards with military notices. When the sun passes temporarily behind a cloud it is breezy, even a bit chilly. Green banana trees, gray pavement with blotchy brown and black potholes, houses painted cheerily ...
Surreal
... incredible... The weather has been getting hotter I think. We waited four hours for a bus today to get back to Havana from Pinar del Rio. Luckily though, it started to rain really hard on the ride back and since all the windows were open, everyone got a ...
Cuban cafe and a swim with the fishes...
... either a car or a plane crash). There, we also learned that Las Terrazas was actually the first biosphere reserve of Cuba. Apparently the people of this village used to live all over in the Sierra Rosaria mountains, until the government built a more ...
Vinales
... that they do not know what they have .... things that only cannot buy. The weather and the spirit is mucho caliente. Viva Cuba! This country is full of opposites. From BMW's , antique cars, oxen pulling carts, modern buses, tractors pulling trailers ...
So many more friends!
... a mojito 2 or 3. So we bought a bottle of rum and coke and continued that tradition for the remainder of my time in Cuba as well. – Bus ride to Havannah – 2 bottles before, one during and one after uggghhhhhh Anyways! Hasta Pronto!! 6th ...
Walkin!!
Well after a late night we had a great massive lunch at 1 then hit the road to see the massive meural, big but the walk and sceenary was as if not more impressive!! Then had the best calimari ever for dinner and more bean soup!! went to bed stuffed and ...
4 go to Vinales, Cuba
We decided to go by bus to Vinales and took a 1950 cheve taxi to the bus station but we didn´t have a ticket. fortunately we met a couple of other people who also had no ticket, also fortunately they spoke fluent spanish so we negotiated a taxi to ...
Vinales Tour, beautyful & touristy
... Malern mit Motiven aus praehistorischer Zeit. Dort haben wir auch unseren spaeten Lunch. Weiter geht es nach Pinar del Rio Am spaeten Nachmittag kommen wir in Pinar del Rio an und schauen uns die koloniale Pastellarchitektur an. ...
Cuba libre cont´d...
... nbsp; MANGO. It was very exciting for Rach and I as we´d not eaten fresh fruit for some time, plus the mangos in Cuba fantastic. I don´t eat mango too much at home because it is quite pricey and usually they aren´t that flash, but in ...
Viñales
Etwa 4 Stunden Busfahrt bringen uns auf direktem Wege hinaus aus Havanna in Richtung Westen nach Viñales, einem der beliebtesten Orte fuer Touristen auf dieser Seite der Insel. Und wir sehen schnell warum. Er ist klein, total entspannt und gelegen ...
Lunch near La Palma
On Tuesday morning I awoke in my comfortable bed in our room at Los Jazmines. After I'd showered, I stepped out onto the balcony to dry out my hair. I breathed in the sweet, fresh air and was struck by the view below me. Spread out below was the valley ...
The bicycle tour begins
So the bike tour began, and with it our first taste of Cuba outside the city. We met Miguel, our tour guide, and Carlos, our bus driver. The tour included one large tour bus for all of us, with room to fit our snazzy blue bikes. We met the other 12 on our ...
Vignales
Vignales is one of the nicest places we viasited in Cuba. It is a small town, set in a region of tobacco plantations and mountains. We spent one day visiting the island of Cayo Levisa, swimming in the sea, lazing on the beach and renting sea kayaks and ...
The land of the BEST tobacco in the World
... ) then we went to Viñales to see a mural on a mountain which is about the evolution of men kind, then to "La Cueva del Indio" meaning "The Indigenous Man's Cave". Then had a lovely traditional meal. And lastly we went to a lookout were you could see all ...
Into the country side
... ; There was a little hut selling Guevera and Fidel merchandise as normal, along with the cigars and wooden carvings you see throughout Cuba. I wondered on passed and headed down to the lake. It was a oblong shaped lake and a jetty made from ...
Vinales
... Vinales was beautiful with lots of small limestone hills called mogotes lendng the landscape a very unusual appearance. The province of Pinar del Rio where Vinales is located is a major farming area with tobacco the main crop. They say its the best ...
Transportation Trials and Tribulations
... on Alan's horse and he took Lyn's and we set off back to the farm. We didn't know if the foot needed x-raying and, being Cuba, we wondered how difficult it would be to get that sorted. Lynda sat with her foot up on the horse and said that we ...
Vinales - very friendly
... hero he truly was. much celebration followed. yee-hah! There are lots of great photos but the technology in Cuba means i will probably wait until I´m in a place with faster connection or Mark will upload a selection when ...
Pinar by night
... electricity has risen considerably lately... Asking if there was anything on that night, they told me no, nothing. Only at the Cafe Pinar, maybe. I got there. Asked for food, as everything else was closed. Bocadillas: 1.50 cuc, they tell me. OK, with ...
First full day in Pinar del Río
... conditions ranging from heart attacks, strokes, diabetes to multiple sclerosis and everything in between. They, as all of Cuba's health providers and facilities, are connected to the large, informative Infomed computer network. Infomed has been developed ...