Islazul Hotel Colon
Travel Blogs from Camaguey
Canadian embassy assistance to a stranded Austral
Getting to Cuba from cancun was a breeze. There were no flight delays and because my flight was so late at night, the customs officers were almost asleep. I had specifically found an ATM in cancun to take out $400 US dollars as they are always the best currency to travel with and who knew if Cuba would even exchange mexican pesos. I got a bit of a …
Carnaval and no tourists
... Coming out of the bus station, the usual crowd of taxi driver attacks me. I just go to a public phone and call Pedro. After some talking, we figure out what we gonna do. I will stay for tonight in Camaguey and the next day, at around 4:30am. we will leave with a private taxi for 45cuc to Santa Lucia and directly go diving. Why so early ? Well, the place to see the sharks is in a sort of canal between the Cuban ...
Camaguey
... bum ruffles that matched the dancers' head ruffles. Quite a bit of bum cheek was on display in some outfits.The best male costume was black pants with a shiny magenta cummerbund, and a jacket with a silver and magenta design on the front part and on the giant epaulettes. From the epaulettes spurted a voluminous froth of flamingo-pink ruffled netting sleeves. He wore a spangly silver bowler hat on his shoulder-length light brown curls. Sacha Baron Cohen, come to Cuba for your next alter ego. ...
Maxhütte
... Bei einem Mojito haben wir Hans alias Juan kennengelernt, der von 1980-85 in der Maxhütte in Unterwellenborn gearbeitet hat und noch immer ausgesprochen gut Deutsch spricht. Er hat uns viel über die kubanische Mentalität erzählt und uns Kuba ein ganzes Stück näher ...
Happy Easter
... Australian on our tour went to live with an elderly couple (Miriam, Jorge and their dog jungle). They didn’t speak any English so I did all the translating for the 3 of us. Again our room was lovely with our own private bathroom with meals in the family kitchen where Jorge was berated for serving drinks in the wrong glasses. It was just like staying with your grandparents.
Today was Good Friday and the town turned out at 8pm for a ...
Amenities
- Room service
- Restaurant