Lonely Planet Cuba (Travel Guide)

Lonely Planet Cuba (Travel Guide)

Lonely Planet

Language: English

Pages: 544

ISBN: 1743216785

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


#1 best-selling guide to Cuba *

Lonely Planet Cuba is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Take a drive along Havana's Malecon, soak up the live music scene, make yourself at home in a casa particular all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Cuba and begin your journey now!

Inside Lonely Planet Cuba:

  • Full-color maps and images throughout
  • Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests
  • Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
  • Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices
  • Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
  • Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, architecture, cuisine, music, dance, landscape, wildlife, literature, arts, politics
  • Free, convenient pull-out Havana map (included in print version), plus over 80 color maps
  • Covers Havana, Artemisa, Mayabeque, Isla de la Juventud, Valle de Vinales, Pinar del Rio, Varadero, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Villa Clara, Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus, Ciego de Avila, Camaguey, Las Tunas, Holguin, Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantanamo and more

The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Cuba , our most comprehensive guide to Cuba, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled.

  • Looking for more extended coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's Discover Caribbean Islands guide.

Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Brendan Sainsbury and Luke Waterson

About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveler community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travelers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.

Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 in the Favorite Travel Guide category.

*Best-selling guide to Cuba. Source: Nielsen BookScan. Australia, UK and USA. Mar 2014 - Feb 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pleasant. More atmospheric, however, is the old bar out front (10:30am to 11pm) where mojitos haven’t yet reached El Floridita rates. The food is surprisingly mediocre. Just down from the Hotel Panamericano is a bakery ( 8am-8pm). Across the Paseo Panamericano is a grocery store, the Mini-Super Caracol ( 9am-8pm), and a clean and reasonably priced Italian restaurant Allegro ( noon-11pm) with lasagna, risotto, spaghetti and pizza, all for CUC$4. Getting There & Away Metro bus P-8 goes to

1898, on the pretext of ‘protecting US citizens.’ Fatefully, its touted task never saw fruition. On February 15, 1898 the Maine exploded out of the blue in Havana Harbor, killing 266 US sailors. The Spanish claimed it was an accident, the Americans blamed the Spanish, and some Cubans accused the US, saying it provided a convenient pretext for intervention. Despite several investigations conducted over the following years, the real cause of the explosion may remain one of history’s great

Oscars ceremony. But the singer’s real passion was always Cuba and, from Santiago to Cienfuegos, his beloved countrymen couldn’t get enough of him. Indeed, legend has it that whenever Benny performed in Havana’s Centro Gallego hundreds of people would fill the parks and streets around the Capitolio in the hope of hearing him sing. With his multitextured voice and signature scale-sliding glissando, Moré’s real talent lay in his ability to adapt and seemingly switch genres at will. As comfortable

with food supply and prices reflect this – especially if you crave something imported such as canned corn or nuts. Paladares and casas particulares usually offer good value, with monstrous meal portions (no rationing here), including a pork chop, rice and beans, salad and french fries, costing around CUC$8. Add a couple of beers, dessert and a tip and you’re looking at CUC$12 (or more). Drinking is considerably more affordable than eating, with a strong mojito costing CUC$2 (in a

epiphytes are akin to a giant outdoor biological classroom. The Carpeta Central information office ( 54-02-31; 8am-5pm), near the sundial at the entrance to Topes de Collantes, is the best place to procure maps, guides and trail info. Sights Believe it or not, Topes de Collantes’ monstrous sanitarium once harbored a treasure trove of Cuban art boasting works by Cuban masters such as Tomás Sánchez and Rubén Torres Llorca. Raiding the old collection in 2008, inspired provincial officials

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