What to do in Cuba to be fewer visitors and more travelers, five proven tips for a low-cost trip full of emotions.
Forget villages, honeymoons lying in hammocks, Cuba it is a place to live, to explore, it is Isla Granda, it is the island that dances, and you cannot miss even a glimpse of it, to relax under the palm trees.
5 things to do in Cuba before telling her adios
Visit theHavana Vieja , the most characteristic district of the city. The very particular Cathedral of the two different bell towers, the musicians, the artists and the sorcerers in the street who read your hand, the flea markets of Plaza de Armas. Then continue in Mercaderes and take a trip to the oldest perfumery in Cuba, Habana 1791.
Get to Plaza Vieja, with its lonely arcades and its bars with live music and very good beers.
Trinidad, of the smaller towns is certainly the most beautiful. It has remained intact in its colonial style but with a neat appearance, like an older lady doing her makeup for a party. Her all colored houses have been rearranged, the large windows always left open as if they wanted to welcome you and never make you feel a stranger, and the furnishings that can be glimpsed from the grates, take you back to a bygone era when adventurers came down from ships in search fortunes.
Stroll to the famous bar Chanchanchera and have their specialty of the same name served: cocktails made with honey, lemon, water and brandy. Don't worry, Cubans drink it at any time! Go out and keep looking around and in some courtyard you will find the altars and fetishes of some Santero and let them tell their stories.
Cayo Largo the most beautiful sea in the Caribbean. Swim and have a mojito on the deserted beach of Playa paraiso, however, head where the umbrellas begin to thin out, here will be your paradise. At the main port of the island is the Sea Turtle Research Center, where they treat and protect the turtles run by passionate people. Try to participate in the release of the newborn baby turtles, it is a moving experience, they wriggle in your hands and run very fast towards their first wave
Attend one of the popular festivals numerous at any time of the year. Every occasion for Cubans is good to celebrate and above all to dance. The Holguin carnival, held in the third week of August, is very fun. Handcrafted floats and rides, street food and Rio-style costume dances.
Look for the Houses of the Trova. The most famous are those of Havana and Santiago, but they are everywhere. Cuban melancholy music at any time of the day that tears your heart out and doesn't make it anymore.
Make friends with one of the many Cubans that I want to offer you a dinner at their home. Usually they also organize the round trip service and offer you lobsters and shrimps caught by them in the courtyard of their house. You will spend an evening under the stars smoking Cuban cigars and hearing the stories of their families or the Cuba of the revolucion.
