Blogs from Cuba, Central America Caribbean - page 107

Cuba - Beautiful Island in the Carribean Sea During wintertime in Switzerland we decided to escape the ''coldness'' of Switzerland. We've been flying with Edelweiss Airlines, a Swiss Charter to Varadero with stopover in Holguin. We've enjoyed 2 weeks in Cuba. The journey back home was kinda turbulent. Even I got a bit scared while we approached Zurich with lots of crosswind. Finally the Airbus A330 needed to carry out a touch and go and repeat the approach again...We finally landed savely in Zurich and we are reminiscing Cuba as a wonderful, friendly country.... read more

Onze eerste echte vakantie (trip). Een super ervaring in het mooie, maar straat arme, Cuba. Totaal onvoorbereid 2 goedkope tickets naar Cuba gekocht......orkaanseizoen. Toen we in Cuba aankwamen waren de naeffecten van orkaan Frances (boven Florida) nog goed merkbaar. De golven sloegen ver over de kades van de Malecon de La Habana. Havana is een hele onwezenlijke ervaring. Een hele arme stad, maar in tegenstelling tot andere ontwikkelingslanden is hier ooit wel enorme rijkdom geweest en dat zie je overal. Oude, vervallen gebouwen, straten en 101 keer opgelapte automobielen. Je waant je constant op een filmset. Net als bij veel filmsets bestaan de gebouwen vaak uit niet meer dan een gevel. Na twee dagen Havana hebben we een Yaris gehuurd en zijn we met de auto vertrokken. Via de noordkust naar het westen. Onze volgende bestemming ... read more

Cuba is the land of music, hand rolled cigars, fabulous antique cars and old spanish colonial architecture. Havana was like time travel back to the 50's. The whole trip started with an exciting plane ride from Nassau, Bahamas to Havana. The old Russian Antonov aircraft was rickety and was filled with white smoke for airconditioning before take off. It felt more like smoke at a disco, but with no disco fever music. As soon as the plane took off, the overhead bins started popping open and the toilet door started shaking. The whole plane ride of 1.5 hours felt like ages and there was clapping all over the aircraft when we safely landed in Havana. Through out the trip, I stayed with cuban host families and was a great way to get to experience the cuban ... read more

Geo: 23.1333, -82.3667Went to friends CP & NB to Havana (Old City, Revolution sq. etc), Cayo Largo (Playe Sirena, Villa Coral), Pinar del Rio - Vinales & San diego do los Banos...They are the most sexual people in the world, the minute one of ye look away someone will be coming onto ya or at least opening eyeing you up even if your partner isn't looking away. Fábrica de Tobacos Partagás cigar factory was excellent very good tour, & the Old city - gorgeous colonial mansions, churches and cobblestone plazas. Was great to see Revolution Sq & The Ernesto Che Guevara memorial, great cocktails in Hotel National (or there's other good fancy ones too like Hotel Inglaterra), we stayed in Ambos Mumdos which is very nice (Hemmingway lived there for a while & started writing 'For ... read more

Geo: 23.1168, -82.3886De hecho ... Viva Cuba! El lema...My very first visit to Cuba...I went together with my best friend from Switzerland, we met 1993 in Bangkok and promptly planned our trip for 1994 to travel together into crime-ridden Manila, Philippines...and beyond.Que no hablo español...también no hablo bien Inglés...Basically...Conversation possibilities were non-existent...That didn't stop the Cubans from frolicking with me...Back in the 90's the Jiintero/Jintera quota was low-key...truly wonderful walking around the streets without having someone on your tail every second trying to part you from your money in any way imaginable...I was staying in districto Vedado, just opposite the hotel Meliá Cohíba towards the infamous La Rampa...do you see the lonely looking high-rise, Russian looking apartment building? On the very top floor,... read more