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Cuba – More Than Beautiful Beaches
December 6, 2009
Cuba tours are exciting and interesting alternatives to more mundane destinations. If you have a sense of adventure, if you like romantic destinations more than glitzy high-rises, you will simply love a visit to Cuba.
During the miserable winters of the Northern hemisphere, Cuba is the ideal place to break away for a couple of weeks of sunshine. What you will find in Cuba is not only warm weather but warm and friendly people with a passion for music and culture.
Most tours start in the crumbling, atmospheric old capital of Havana. With it’s many old cars dating back to the l950′s and’60′s and its gently decaying colonial buildings Havana has been the backdrop of many romantic movies.
If you want to get away from the never ending bustle of the city, take a taxi to the malecon (sea-wall) and join the locals in appreciating the gentle, salty breezes. And when the sun sets head for one of the numerous live music venues where you can easily dance until the sun rises again… Or you drop dead from fatigue.
Cuba has much more to offer than Havana though. In the far south of the country there is a city called Baracoa – located in such a beautiful spot between sea and mountain, surrounded by lush vegetation, that it prompted Christopher Columbus to say that no human eye could ever view any more beautiful place.
Cuba’s second largest city is Santiago de Cuba. It is a city of all-night music venues, stunning colonial churches and lots of interesting museums. And yes, there is still the faint smell of revolution hanging over everything – this is after all the city where the revolution is supposed to have been born.
The third largest city in Cuba is Camaguey. If you find this a confusing city to navigate, nobody will blame you. It was specifically planned to be confusing when it was founded in the 17th century – to keep away pirates, robbers and other attackers. There are many parks, the market garden is a beehive of activity and there are also many art galleries.
No visit to Cuba will be complete without a visit to Trinidad – in many respects the most beautiful colonial city in Cuba. With numerous beautiful white beaches nearby and a pulsating night life, this is certainly one of the most enchanting cities in all of Cuba.
Many tour operators nowadays offer specialized Cuba tours. Some tours concentrate on visiting historical areas, others more on showcasing the culture of the country and still others on exploring the natural beauty of this magnificent land.
Jose Mauricio Maurette Garces is a reservation consultant and co owner of Quest World travel Ltd . He has a great deal of experience organizing holidays to Cuba . If you need to arrange a tailor made Cuban Holiday please follow the links above.
Cuba: The Largest Island In The Caribbean
November 30, 2009
Considering holidays in Cuba? Here is one Caribbean island where you would not want to spend all your time on the beach. The people are bright, self-assertive and handsome. The heritage of Cuba is so rich as are the monuments and palaces throughout the country. A Cuban Holiday is without a doubt one to consider.
These are just some of the facts to consider and places and things you should not miss in your holidays to Cuba.
The country has evolved with a strong personality from its experience from Spanish colonization, slavery, civil war, invasion, revolution and relentless economic embargo. Havana the islands proud capital is energetically restoring the buildings of its elegant historic quarters and the grand old cities of Santiago de Cuba and Trinidad still recall their 16th century beginnings.
Today, Canadian and European tourists come to Cuba’s 35 most popular playground for its super water sports facilities by day and the countless discotecas and the hotels’ lavish cabaret floorshows by night.
Cuba’s offshore isles, islets, cayos (keys), and rocky sandbars with a tree or two, number in all 4,195, grouped in five archipelagos around the main island. The biggest, Isla de la Juventud, has been inhabited since prehistoric times, the others worth a visit have been partly transformed into modern beach resorts-Cayo Guillermo, Cayo Largo, Cayo Romano and Cayo Coco-each with superb white sands and good facilities for swimming, sailing and deep-sea fishing.
The Flora numbers no less than 8.1(00 varieties, Dense sub-tropical forest cover the humid lower mountain slopes, providing valuable timber products. Woods on the higher, drier slopes are principally pine and eucalyptus. The island boasts an astonishing assortment of palm trees, the best known being the royal palm, indigenous to Cuba.
The list of places to visit and things to do goes on and on. There are hundreds of beaches, interesting cities and amazing landscapes. Keep reading as much as you can about Cuba so that you can get the most out of your Cuba holidays.
Jose Maurette is the Director of Quest World Travel Ltd and a specialist in organizing holidays to Cuba. Visit www.quest2cuba.co.uk for further information on the best Havana Holidays.
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