Country Info
- Havana
- Capital
- Cuban Peso (CUP)
- Currency
- 11,184,023
- Population
- CU
- Country Code
Cuba Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Cuba
Catamaran Cruise to Iguana Island
... tomorrow. We continued on our way back to shore; tired, but only in the way that sitting in the sun doing nothing makes you tired. For information on the tour we took, follow the ...
"Hasta Luego", Havana
... :) We went for lunch as a group at a fancy restaurant called Restaurant Europa, probably the fanciest we went to while in Cuba! After lunch we walked some more, saw the Bodeguita del Medio, Plaza de las Armas, visited a Bodega (where Cubans go to ...
Finally here!
... really is that now we have rings on our fingers, it's not like we never slept over before :-D So we left for Cuba early morning (retrospectively, almost a year after actually, I have a blank on the exact time our flight was), and got there around ...
10 Hours in Revolucion Square
... boulevard. Jose was a Cuban poet who wrote a famous book of poetry called (translated) Simple Verses from which a lot of Cuba's national song Guantanamera lyrics come from. He advised early on to break Cuba's relationship with the States as it was too ...
Donde este el mojito?
... ; The main lobby had a gorgeous chandelier, complete with fluorescent bulbs, (very pleased to see that most lightbulbs we saw in Cuba were high efficiency; little shout out to Al Gore, Woohoo). The outer balconies on the levels with rooms had palm ...
The only donkey in Cuba
... to share his story with us, and was amused by dad's tales of our canadian donkeys. Later on in our trip, I happened across a tour book of Cuba, and there Jorge was on the cover - and in many other places, too. He is one of those "faces of Cuba", like the ...
A morning jog
... I see a rocking chair in front of the balcony, a man fixing something. This is how they do it here, they fix things. In that sense Cuba is way ahead of us. This is not a throw-away society. We could learn a thing or two. I reach the ground floor, say ...
Traumstrand
Mit dem Taxi ging es über den 27km Damm der das Festland mit dem Archipel Caya Coco verbindet. Auf diesem befinden sich ca. 15 all-inclusive 4-5 Sterneresorts für Pauschaltouristen und ein Strand der den Titel „weltklasse" verdient. Wir ...
Cuba: Rum, Tobacoo and music
... 2 palm trees framing the pure white sandy beaches and crystal clear waters. A place you coulfd get used to with mojitios and cuba libre's being brought to you on your sun lounger and delicious $1 hamburgers. After a taste of the beach we decided to ...
Che's Capital
... only we were regaled with Che stories in the evenings we were spoilt with the most amazing dinners (and breakfasts - best in Cuba). Craig also learnt a lesson in playing with parrots. Don't. The resident bird was not the friendliest but it didn't stop ...
Colonial Trinidad & Cayo Coco
... 's hair." For $100 you get a lavish apartment and all of the above. It's a good deal for the outsiders but after traveling through Cuba, even after bingeing on everything on offer, elsewhere $100 would last several days. Like we said, it was an ...
Castro's City
Santiago was an altogether different experience. Fidel's town is another colonial gem. A city that makes the finest rum in the land. We went to the Casa De La Musica for a night of drinking and dancing and once the MC asked where we were from, we were ...
Baracoa
Baracoa is a tropical village at the far end of Cuba. It is surrounded by lush jungle and has a quaint fishing village next to it, called Boca De Miel which is famous for the brightly coloured snails that habitat there. We took a trek with a local ...
Trinidad
Feb 6, Trinidad, I said goodbyes to the people at Cienfuegos and Michael who is headed in the other direction. We had good conversation and he showed me his photographs from Alaska and Mexico that he made a slide show of. There were some very impressive ...
Cuba
... , so it may be best just to look at the pictures (even though I am not sure they do it justice). Whilst in Cuba we also visited some beautiful beaches Valadero and Maria La Gorda. Both long stretches of white sand and crystal water. Valadero was 20km ...
Cuba
... Ingvar, vi måste med våra revade segel o motor lova upp o släppa förbi den. På morgonen sen äntligen i Santiago de Cuba, fick ankra i marinaviken o vänta 3 t på tullare, läkare mm. Ingen internet endast i staden dit vi ska idag dock inte ...
Backpackers go all inclusive
... Years we went to a Gala dinner on the rooftop of a posh hotel, Lobster,Pork,shrimp and wine to beat the band and a few Cuba Libres thrown in, all topped off at 12 with big Cohiba Cigars to the backdrop of canon shots from the castle and fireworks. A good ...
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 ...
Feb 11, 2013
first time in Cuba - troubles at immigration
Sorry, Czech version only for now. EN will come later... Blog o Kubě bude jistojistě ten nejtěžší, jaký jsem kdy psal. Na Kubě jsme strávili pouhých 10 dní. Velice krátká doba nato, psát nějaký ...
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 ...