Cuba Travel Guide
– To enter the tropical atmosphere of Cuba at its fiftieth anniversary. Among American cars, the smoky bars of Havana, the effect insurance.
– For Tues fantastic. Cuba offers about six thousand miles of beautiful Caribbean coast, with beaches and cliffs for all tastes.
– To the hospitality of the people, not always as interested in would have you believe. The Cubans are a people happy and willing to leave people who like to find abroad, only to share ideas.
– To smoke the best snuff in the world, Handmade with leaves of Vuelta Abajo. You can also attend snuff manufacturing in a factory or maybe inside a large hotel, where they are exposed in the party, the preparations for the authentication of snuff artists.
– To travel through the city Hemingway, a North American writer who lived on the island of 1939-1961 and where he wrote some of his novels.
GeoData
Set the Caribbean Sea, Cuba, with a length of 1,200 km and an area of 110.860 km., is the largest island in the Greater Antilles. It is 200 km. Isle of keys and it is close to Yucatan in Mexico the mainland and the island of Spanish. Only the main island, the Republic of Cuba offers all the islands and surrounding islands. Much of the Cuban coast is low and sandy, with numerous bays and lagoons and paludosa. The interior is plain, interrupted by the Organ Mountains to the west, the Sierra del Escambray in the center and the Sierra Maestra in the east. Its population is approximately 11 million inhabitants.
Time Zone: -6.0 (summer) -6.0 (winter)
Duration 13.5 hours a day (June), minimum 11.0 hours (December)
WHEN TO GO
Best time: February, March
Good period: January, April, December
Worst Period: September, October
Time
The resort is naturally dry, the best time to go, starting in late October and ends in April. Rainy season extends from April to October, but rainfall during these months, although plentiful always occurs within half a day and for a short period.
What to bring
Certainly, the swimsuit. And then summer clothes, and pullouvers cotton shirts, shorts and long. And also remember, walking shoes in the afternoon, can also have a pair of sandals.
Culture / Museums
City Museum
Address: Plaza de Armas, Havana
Hours: 9.30 to 18.30
Entrance is paid
One histoty major museums and culture in the island. It offers a rich sample tests ofartistic bengining the colonial era to the years of flirting the republic.
Revolution Museum
Address: Presidential Palace Refuge, Street, Havana
Hours: 10-17 on Saturday until 18
Entrance is paid
Everything you wanted to know about the myth of the Cuban revolution is exposed in this place in the former office building that housed its last tenant until the dictator Batista in 1959, documents, recordings and films on the revolutionary epic.
National Museum
Address Trocadero, La Habana
Hours: 10 to 17, closed Tuesday and Wednesday
Entrance is paid
Exhibition is divided into several sections. The Pinacoteca, with sheets of Spanish, English, Danish teachers, among which are distinguished by Velázquez, Murillo, Goya and Turner, the collection of art from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, considered the largest Latin America, the gallery devoted to the Cuban painting of the seventeenth century to the present, the collection of pottery, and a temporary exhibition space.
Hemingway Museum
Address: San Francisco de Paula, San Miguel del Padrón, 12 km from Havana
Hours: 9-16, Sunday 9 to 12.30
Entrance is paid
Dedicated to fans American writer who has lived in this building from 1939-1961. This is where Hemingway wrote "Who rang the bell" and "Old Man and the Sea."
National Music Museum
Address: Street Prison, Havana
Hours: 9-17, 8-12 Sunday closed Monday
Entrance is paid
There are many presentations Afro-Cuban instruments, as well as private collections of the anthropologist Fernando Ortiz. Records, sheet music and tools are sold, and some concerts are presented in the museum hall.
KITCHEN CUBA
Traditional cuisine is excellent and Cuba would be a sin for looks, other plates Inetrnational proposals in other locations. Culinary Born in Cuba of the meeting of Colombian cuisine with African, French, Spanish, English, and Hindus and Indonesia. The result of this balance is a miracle. It is very often the fruit so that (mango, papaya, avocado), as an accompaniment to savory dishes and be part of the basis drinks.It cocktails and is widely used pork, chicken lots, mainly in the interior, while in the coastal restaurants are exquisite sea dishes: fish, crustaceans cooked in several ways. The plate is the national melting pot "a soup with potatoes, bananas, corn, beef, chicken and beef jerky. Another typical food is "congrí" from black beans and rice cooked together, accompanied by "pork rinds. The" fufu " is a second banana purée seasoned with mojo "a little oil, garlic and cumin. Do not miss the opportunity to try the lobster Creole is nothing but a fried lobster with tomato, onion, pepper, chile and orange juice. Among the sweets of "sweet potato," said Pope sweets and sugar and "caramel Coquito" also "La Mala Rabies has also made cane syrup SUGRE sweet potatoes, cinnamon and orange soft-shelled. The drink is distributed coffee, served in U.S., which is not only words, and rum is used pure as a basis for any mixed drinks and cocktails as well as Cuba Libre, Pina Colada punk or Ron. Cuba produces as a great beer. National Dissemination and brands are Mayabe Lagarto.
FUN / SHOPPING
Who does not know rum and Cuban snuff, known all the best in the world? The island has many opportunities to return home with great music, memories and why not a revolutionary car of the fifties.
Snuff
The snuff and cigarettes are different sizes, sold individually or in elegant wooden boxes. Just to see the reports in the year to buy even if smoking, maybe for a gift. Prices are almost half the prices in Italy. For example, a box with three types of costs Sigara Montecristo N.4 about 10 U.S. dollars. They can be purchased in stores. In Havana, the House of 5a and 16 (5th Avenue and 16). In Santiago, in House of Snuff (Avenida Jesús Menéndez 730). Pay attention to conservation of snuff. adequate moisture is necessary for them.
Office
Cuban handicraft reflects the influence of different cultures, especially African countries. Many objects are related to Santeria, the Afro-Cuban religion spread excellence on the island. There may be parts of dolls and ceramics, masks papier-mache and wooden sculptures. Tamarind seeds Puppets are also available. nice hats feathers or fiber woven coconut palm. Baskets and bags too. In Old Havana makes Art Palace (Calle Cuba 64). In Santiago, in the House of Crafts (Cathedral Square).
Foodstuffs
The rum is required buying and is the most famous brand of Havana Club in several versions: alcoholic beverages, more economical, Carta Blanca 3 years and are used mostly cocktails. Golden Charter five years, and the best matured for 7 years. Accuracy of U.S. $ 4-7 each bottle. For more adventurous Cuba rum retention is precious Matusalem, revenues from Santiago de Cuba matured for 25 years, may be around 15 dollars per bottle at the Casa del Ron Bernaza And Bishop of Havana Vieja.
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