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Hotel Playa Larga Cienfuegos

Montemar Natural Park, Zapata Peninsula Cienfuegos, Cuba

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More time here is needed

A travel blog entry by ashleythomas

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... our Casa owners. Endless food though, it just kept coming out – congri, salad (or mere plate decoration would be a more accurate belief. I try to tell Roger that salad is more than nicely placed tomato and he looks bewildered), sweet potato, a plate of delicious salteado vegetables in a tasty tomato-based sauce, plantain chips, and oh my caramel flan for dessert. The caramel flan in Cinefuegos is stupendous, it’s so good. The food in Cuba has been ...

Saying Goodbye to Cienfuegos

A travel blog entry by roadscholarorg

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... the Bay of Pigs Museum. The invasion was an unsuccessful action by Cuban exiles to invade Cuba. The main invasion landing took place at a beach called Playa Giron.


Today is our last day in Cienfuegos. We have a long but scenic drive ahead of us as we travel to Havana. Looking forward to it!
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The smallest bird in the world

A travel blog entry by penguinchris

... promenade we ended up back in the hotel bar where we chatted again to some anglers from Perthshire and Stirlingshire who where back for their third or fourth visit whilst making sure that the mojito expert didn’t lose his skill for lack of practice. Fishermen quite often make good wildlife spotters and they were telling us that they had seen a couple of cranes out on the Salinas. We were initially sceptical but their descriptions were good and when we showed ...

Birding and sight-seeing

A travel blog entry by penguinchris

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... in Cuba and he asked if we’d seen Bahama Mockingbird on Cayo Guillermo. When we said we’d missed it he produced a piece of orange ribbon from his pocket and told us that he uses them to mark Mockingbird sites when he goes there!



We’d pretty much run out of money so before we said goodbye to Chino he showed us the way to the bank in Playa Larga where we were able to take a few hundred CUCs out on our cards. The ...

Drove a lot, relaxed a little

A travel blog entry by penguinchris

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... today. We got on line at the hotel (10 CUCs an hour and really, really slow) and with the help of reception got through to Chino and arranged to meet the following morning.

CC and JD went for a late afternoon drive and followed the coast road for a while before taking the turn off for the village of Soplillar. Just west of the village we saw a small owl shoot across the road in front of us so ...

This hotel was formerly known as: Playa Larga