Country Info
- Havana
- Capital
- Cuban Peso (CUP)
- Currency
- 11,184,023
- Population
- CU
- Country Code
Cuba Slideshow
Cuba
Travel Blogs from Cuba
1.Mai in Havanna
... dabei und so wird geduldig und mit Spass auf den Start der Parade gewartet. Immer wieder hoert man einzelne Rufe wie "Viva Cuba/Fidel/Raul", die von der Masse mit "Viva" laut erwidert werden. Die Paradestrasse endet am Platz der Revolution, wo ein ...
You can pick your revoluntionaries...
... Varadero. Tonight we´re going dancing at the Habana Libre and tomorrow night we check out the show at the famous Tropicana. Should be cool. See ya kids, Oh yeah, for those of you scoring at home...It´s November, I´m in Cuba and you´re ...
Talking 'bout the Revolution...
... brought money but prostitution too, so that's a 50-50 success rate only. I think this is the main downside of Cuba. Prostitution is widespread, disgusting and sad. Its history represents a very important chapter in the history of the modern ...
Salsa, Salsa, Spanish and more Salsa
... de Hospedaje - Maritza Hernandez Santos Contact: Abel & Lavinia Francisco Cadahia (Gracia) #223 e/ Lino Perez y Colon. Trinidad. S.S. Cuba Tel: (01-419) 3160 $25 CUC per night per room / $3 breakfast / $8 dinner Margarita Simon Spanish ...
Cienfuegos
... like the faggots back home. It seems that it is possible for a fudge-packer not to have those feminine voice transformations in Cuba. Anyway big bald-headed one invited me to supper with the "family" rather than eating alone. I gladly accepted. Maybe ...
Hi honey, I'm ho-ooome!
It feels like I've come home. It feels like I know every nook and cranny of this enigmatic city although of course I get lost, it’s just in my nature. In the morning I can throw open the doors to the balcony overlooking the Atlantic ocean and I can ...
Cuba ... Castro, cigars and many many mojitos
... ... a shifty look over their shoulder and then the extraction of a promise not to repeat anything they said within Cuba. Promises and a few mojitos later often led to some really interesting conversations. Basically although most people ...
This is Cuba, everything else is a lie
... sitter vi atter i Antigua, denne gang for storslagen paaskefeiring. Men det kommer det mer om senere. Vi hadde to fantastiske uker paa Cuba, kick-offen var det saa som saa med, bare hoer paa dette: Vi stod opp klokken 0345 paa fredag, klare som egg for ...
Inselende
Nach einer landschaftlichen tollen Busfahrt über Guantanamo (der US-Stützpunkt ist logischerweise nicht ausgeschildert) erreichten wir Baracoa am südöstlichsten Ende der Insel an dem man an sehr klaren Tagen bis nach Haiti (der Zustand dort ist trotz ...
first part of the delivery - toward the Bahamas
13.01.09 : As you understood, i'm now going to the Bahamas and Nassau will be my next stop. We left St Martin two days ago with a good and fair wind. We arrived really quickly on the British Virgin Islands : Anegada, virgin Gorda or ...
¨Captivating¨ Cuba
... on his face like the situation was adding to the adventure. I wanted to clue him in...that is not a positive moniker!!! So Cuba has 2 currencies, one for the locals I called Pesos and one for tourists called CUCs. This division was another point of ...
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 ...
Media Impressions
... media messages are so emotional. Actually most people I meet are really enthusiastic about the political and social situation in Cuba. They admit that they love American cultural products (music, movies, clothes), and despite resentment they do want ...
Arrival in Havana
... It was just that morning we had left the cold Canadian winter, fleeing south for the warmth of the Caribbean. Upon arrival in Cuba, you are greeted with a pleasurable gust of warm air as you pass from plane to transfer tube-thing. The first thing I ...
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 ...
With an armfull of bananas I drink the rainbow
As I stroll down the cobbled streets in my colorful sun-dress and flip-flops noisily living up to their name, with an armful of tiny bananas and a skin-tone several shades darker than a month ago, I am starting to feel almost like a local… I could ...
Musical Mojitos
... as Revolution Square where tall buildings had massive metal framed outlines of Fidel Castro and Che Guavara on the sides. Yes, definately Cuba! Our casa particular was in the Vedado area of Havana, a better area to stay in than the old ...
Cuba Libre cont'd
... meet, or encounter, some Brits though. They say Americans talk a lot, but these girls could talk underwater while drinking Cuba Libres I swear. Usually we'd find them in a bus station where we were all sitting waiting and a captive audience ...
Havana
... tillbaka till Santiago nästa vecka, halva priset och 15h,aldrig mera kubanskt flyg, 18h med all väntan!!! Cuba är ett mycket speciellt samhälle, sanslös fattigdom, även välutbildade kubaner som veterinären o marinamanigern tjänar endast 15 ...
A day in Cuba Trinidad
... you from the side of the street for a lift. My thoughts - People seem to have been left to there own defenses in Cuba, people seem happy anyway despite this. All streets are the same with nothing really to distinguish one from the other. At least ...
White doves and a rooster!
... white doves… Seeing them made me think of the young woman from whom I bought a necklace at the market. She said she loved Cuba and its beauty, but that she lived in a prison, albeit a beautiful prison… She said she was hoping soon Cubans will ...
Havana - 2nd time round
Going back to Havana with fresh eyes, a new perspective of Cuba and some experience of dealing with the locals we took on Havana with a new attitude, slightly harder after seeing so much poverty in the remote areas and a lot more self assurance that is ...
Hit the road... backpacking Cuba adventure begins!
Burn baby burn! It's so hot here!! Yesterday morning we got up early and went to the beach for a couple hours. The wind was a little high and the sand blowing around was quite a storm. However, the sun was amzing (maybe a bit too much but ...
Das Geschäft mit den Frauen
Im Südosten des Landes erwarteten uns wieder viele Jineteros. Die deutsche Übersetzung „Schlepper" trifft es am besten. Die nervigen Typen verfolgen einen auf Schritt und Tritt um sich eine Provision für ein abgeschlossenes Geschäft mit ...
