Playa Coco Cayo Coco

Cayo coco, jardines del rey. ciego de aviala Cayo Coco, Ciego de Avila Province, Cuba

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The nicest beach ever?

A travel blog entry by bearethere

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On day three of our adventure we were early for one of our lunches. So Eddy, our man in Havana, hee hee, took us to a public beach area called Playa Pilar.
He talked it up a lot and frankly what beach in Cuba isn't nice? but when we got there we were all pretty impressed.
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White cows all over the road

A travel blog entry by bearethere

Arrived into Cayo Coco airport fighting mosquitoes. It was a very wam night and after changing some money into Pesos we boarded our bus, met our tour guide Eddy and the driver Pepe, and proceeded to the hotel.
Eddy was quite chatty. He was sometimes hard to understand but I got the gist of what he was saying most of the time.
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Cuba

A travel blog entry by mkuncio

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... it was a little too long as we were all out in the heat for the majority of the day. If I had come from an Australian summer to Cuba, it might have been different.

That night we met up with the group at the Hotel which seemed to gain numbers each and every night. As was thee case from previous nights, we partied on into the early hours of the morning. Every night we seemed to meet more and more people and even though we had only been there for a few days, we ...

Finally on holiday!

A travel blog entry by penguinchris

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... Cuban Grassquit is also sometimes seen there.

We drove the short-distance to the Jabadi Cave where a short walk on the forest trail that starts near this odd cavern with a nightclub yielded our first exquisite and tiny Cuban Tody and an impressive Great Lizard Cuckoo. Back at the car park a pair of Cuban Bullfinches were busy building a nest.

Next we tried the sandy Las Dunas track where a large bird was seen flying over ...

More delays - but it gets better

A travel blog entry by penguinchris

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... Jardin Los Cocos Motel just after sunset. The Lonely Planet guide is a bit sniffy about this place, calling it a place for Cuban workers with musty rooms, but we were quite taken with it and it was an excellent alternative to one of the local all-inclusive places. Dinner at the motel was fine and there was a Grey Kingbird catching flies around the light outside our room.

Total bird species seen - 25, of which 11 were species we hadn’t seen before.

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