Cuba

Cuba, the largest island in the Caribbean, is being reborn. Old Havana is becoming a restored gem, taking on the aura of a totally preserved museum city. Art galleries and local culture are alive in well in Cuba and the feeling is one of hope and optimism.

Cuba offers so much to the traveler: mountain peaks, beaches, nightlife, history, culture, and water sports.

Cuba Museums offer indoor activities should you get enough of the sun and fun. Visit the Automobile Deposit Museum in Havana for beautifully preserved antique and specialty cars.

Old Havanna is coming back to life with Spanish gardens and colonial architecture fixed up. Visit Hispanic palaces who have new life as resorts and then see where “Papa” Ernest Hemingway hung out when in Cuba.

Hemingway fans should see Hotel Ambos Mundos, which is now a tourist attraction. This is where he kept a studio for writing. See his actual typewriter and the gorgeous view of the harbor from his balcony. The top floor was a bar that served drinks with Cuban limes, rum and Cuban cane. Hemingway’s estate was just outside Havana and is also now a tourist attraction. See Hemingway’s boat Pilar here, and a cemetery just for his dogs.

Yachters will love the new marinas being built to go with the classy large hotels on the waterfront. One such new resort is called Tropicana, which they call “Paradise Under the Stars”. There are sweeping grounds of lush foliage and rainforest blooms. The caberet show is fabulous!

Cuba is the Caribbean’s most populated country, at around eleven million. Cuba is huge! If you take all the other Caribbean islands and lay them side by side, it’s about the same size as Cuba. The history is fascinating, and culture abounds everywhere you go in Cuba, not just Havana.

Culture and history are fascinating, but the number one attraction in Cuba is Varadero Beach. It’s a long strip of land covered in sandy gorgeous beaches. Well-heeled families from the United States had homes here in the 1950s, before the political problems with Cuba. The Dupont family’s former estate is now called Xanadu.

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