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Vinales Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Vinales, 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! ... . Our first premonition involves all the canines. Even in a country where unattractive (but good-natured) mongrels abound, Vinales is extraordinary. "'The dog trots freely in the street' -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti" Julie intones. Other than growling at ...
My best walk in Cuba
This is a top pick! ... mud was too hard for Lucy. After sliding around for a few minutes, we bade farewell to Trina who continued solo. Typically for Vinales, we discovered later that day that she's staying right beside us. She came over for a beer that evening, and stayed for ...
Not a happy birthday
This is a top pick! ... 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 -- many times a ...
Cuba's biggest hotel
This is a top pick! I realize halfway through our stay in Vinales what makes this village so special. Beyond its obvious stunning geography, Vinales is the worthy recipient of low-cost architecture and a fluke of development. The two hotels in the area are kilometers out ...
Taking a trip up to Pinas Del Rio
This is a top pick! 11.03.10 The bus trip to Vinales Province was long and interesting. We were the last to be picked up at our hotel so we had to sit apart on the bus as there were no 2 seats together left. Des sat with Andy, who was studying in the US, and I sat with ...
A STRAY STORY - Chapter 2 - A New Lease Of Life
This is a top pick! ... in the bars and restaurants of Old Habana. To aid a little creature who could not be long for this world. Returning to Vinales (in a hire car this time), it took nearly half an hour before the small dog - bald from scabbies, bones showing through ...
Double Edged Sword
This is a top pick! Bright and early we boarded our (French) tour to Vinales, which took 5 hours and involved stopping at a rum factory and a lookout - none of which we were expecting and was highly amusing! Ozviel met us off the bus in Vinales and escorted us home. On route ...
Rum and Cigars - what else?
... learning how the 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 ...
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 ...
Vinales
... forget it ... I will play it by ear when I get there. I leave Wednesday at 8AM and should arrive around 2:30 or 3 PM in Vinales. I went for a walk and Armando, a local guide, caught up to me as I was walking down the street that led into the ...
So many more friends!
... , one during and one after uggghhhhhh Anyways! Hasta Pronto!! 6th July – We went a very exciting bus ride through Vinales and stopped at a hotel where you could use the pool as while overlooking the mountains and the countryside. I am attaching ...
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 ...
Feb 14, 2013
4 go to Vinales, Cuba
... of other people who also had no ticket, also fortunately they spoke fluent spanish so we negotiated a taxi to take all 4 of us to vinales. however when the taxi arrived it was a little peugeot 206 and it was like the city challenge to get all of us ...
Feb 13, 2013
Feb 13, 2013
Vinales Tour, beautyful & touristy
... Atmosphaere kaputt macht. Danach geht es zum Aussichtspunkt des Hotels Los Jazmines, einer der bekanntesten Schauplaetze das Tal von Vinales und voller Touristen. Tal von Viñales Weiter geht die Fahrt ins gruene Tal von Vinales, wir besuchen eines ...
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
... out my hair. I breathed in the sweet, fresh air and was struck by the view below me. Spread out below was the valley of Vinales, bathed in the soft light of morning. I must have this thing for sunrises, I find them so much more refreshing than sunsets. ...
The bicycle tour begins
... Paul. We turned out to be a great group, everybody got along well together. Our first night we stayed outside of Vinales, at a small place called Aguas Claras. Our rooms were small cabin-type houses, and apparently dad and I lucked out because we ...
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
The province of Pinal de Rio is know for the highest quality tobacco and just growing anything at all. The ground is extremely fertile and anything that grows there comes out ever so tasty! Here I had the Best Piña Colada!!! So yummy with real and ...
Finally she arrived
Eindelijk terug herenigd met my sweetheart (damn it only has been one week)... Havana by night met prive optredentje met mojito op Plaza de Catedral. 's Ochtends vroeg direct met bus doorgereden naar Viñales en meteen 2 fietsen gehuurd om die prachtige ...
Into the country side
... ; It took an hour and a half, so we hopped back on our bikes with no breaks and headed back through the mountains to Vinales. The day was long and tiring so we returned to our Casa de familia. She was already preparing dinner for us, which ...
Vinales
... which was great. There were also a couple of trips to the beach and to the nearby caves. The coutryside around Vinales was beautiful with lots of small limestone hills called mogotes lendng the landscape a very unusual appearance. The province of Pinar ...
Salsa and cigars in Viñales!!
... farms. Rural life. Friendly locals. Cigars. Rum. Salsa dancing. Musicality. Shrimp and lobster. This is VINALES!! Viñales is probably my favourite place in Cuba although Havana is a close second. Viñales is east of Havana in the Pinar ...