The Second Day of my Caribbean Holidays in Cuba
The sun goes up on my second day in my Cuba Holidays. The night at the Macumba was one for the books. Today, I am setting out to know other zones of Havana. My trip tees off in Miramar. After a good breakfast at the hotel, my taxi takes me to well-known 5th Avenue. This is a residential neighbourhood where most of the embassies to the country are located. Besides the tackiness of mansions, buildings and restaurants, abundant green landscaping breathing life into the burg really meets the eye. I am sitting in a bank on a quite and beautiful park, the sounds of the birds give me the peace that I was looking for on this luxury holidays in Cuba.
On my way back and after crossing a short tunnel connecting Miramar to the rest of the city, I make a brief stopover at the Colon Cemetery to delve into Cuba's funerary tradition. I always want to visit this world wide famous place and it is in the list of my Cuba Holidays priorities as I am a fan of The Cuban architecture. Some of the mortuary monuments here are exquisite works of art. There are graves peppered with fantastic legends and tombstones that lay bare this people's jauntiness even in the face of death. Once there I visit the grave of "La Milagrosa" and thanks to this all inclusive holidays in Cuba I find out more of the love story of this ancient couple that become a legend and that nowadays is still worship not only by Cuban People but also from Cuba Holidays makers like me.
Back in the cab, I head to downtown Havana to a pay a visit to the Hammel Alley, a small cul-de-sac turned into an unusual mural of African-Cuban culture. Its originality quenches my wondering why this is one of the most sought-after spots in town by tourists that just like me, intended to capture on their Caribbean Holidays in Cuba, the charms of this island nation in just a few days.
Walking out of the hotel and live to tell
My feet take me to the Museum of the Revolution in the former Presidential Palace, and from there to the Capitol. Its outer structure is similar to others in America. Its interiors, however, shelter a peerless sample of art and grandeur really hard to describe. As much as I walk much that I feel like home on this terrific Cuba Holidays. I walk past the Revolution Square with its gigantic monument to Jose Marti and a history of its own. Knowing more of the history of such extraordinary man is something that I will always thanks to this all inclusive holidays in Cuba. It is lunchtime, so I drive back to Old Havana and land pretty near the Cathedral. El Patio Restaurant –housed in a splendid 18th-century mansion and featuring a central patio dominated by a fountain and wrought-iron balconies- panned out to be pretty intimate. No doubt this has been a wise pick both for the ambiance and the food. I gift myself a few moments of relaxation while tasting the delicious food of this beautiful restaurant and there I meet a Canadian friend that is also spending his holidays in Cuba. We speak of our previous journeys and get to the conclusion that travelling to Cuba is the best option we could make on this Caribbean Holidays.
My Cuba Holidays program continues with a call to the National Museum of Fine Arts, startling from the very façade, but I am running out of time to take a grand tour around today. I stride on to the most crowded part of the Vedado area: the corner of La Rampa and 23rd Avenue, with its "treading museum," an assortment of round slabs ingrained in the sidewalks that depict the works of famed Cuban artists. I make up my mind to stick around and have something to eat because this luxury holidays in Cuba has increased my appetite. I am also eager to catch up on a part of Cuba's many-sided culture. The Fox and The Raven Club (El Club "La Zorra y el Cuervo") suits me down to the ground. But I can not stay up tonight because I will be off tomorrow first thing in the morning.
The 3rd day on a Paradise of Sun and Beach
It is 8:30am and I am on my way in a cab I rented at the hotel. The morning is beautiful as well as the weather, Cuba is happy because I chose her among other countries for the place where I would like to spend my Caribbean Holidays. I see the capital off to meet Varadero, some 87 miles away. An hour later I am in Matanzas, a city nicknamed here The Athens of Cuba and The City of Bridges. Visiting the city of Matanzas at least for a few moments is a must on my holidays in Cuba The latter is true since you hit the entrance. I stop briefly and shuffle into the Pharmaceutical Museum –the only one of its kind in the world- the Cathedral, the Sauto Theatre –famous for its extraordinary acoustics- and the Plaza de la Vigia, a foundational centre where several cultural institutions are headquartered.
As I drive out of town, I take another look at this city that resembles a huge amphitheatre that is been perched around the gorgeous bay and I make up my mind that in my next Cuba Holidays I have to dedicate more time to this marvellous city. Its dwellers, proud of the burg's natural beauties, history and culture, present it to me full of poetry.
The sweltering sun is beating down when I get to Varadero some twenty minutes later. It is the strongest recommendation my family make for my holidays in Cuba. My stomach lets me know that noon is near. I drop in on a picturesque place called La Esquina Cuba. This is a peculiarly decorated place serving the best Cuban food money can buy.
Varadero has a lot of more to offer than beach on my summer holidays.
I head to one of the Cuban hotels that are in Varadero, it is difficult to me to make a decision because all of them are excellent as well as its services, to check in for a night since my stay will be brief. I finally choose the Melia Varadero, one I have heard the best references about of a couple of newly weds that got married on this hotel on their last Holidays in Cuba, and unpacking just my swimwear and a fresh cotton shirt, I pace my way to the Josone Park, a place where nature, buildings and the general environment keep your camera clicking time and time again. Once I enter to the Josone Park I feel like in heaven on this Caribbean Holidays in Cuba, the scenery was breathtaking, the beauties of the lake, the sings of the birds, everything is perfect while I am drinking My Cuba Libre that was prepared by the father of Elian Gonzalez, this emblematic child of The Cuban revolution. His father works there and having a chat with him is one of the most interesting things that have happened to me on this luxury holidays in Cuba.
On with my tight schedule, I climb to the Xanadu Mansion. From the road, I make out the golf course, pencilled in as one of the finest in the Caribbean. The beauty of what you see really packs a wallop to your senses and pass to become a sweet memory of a fantastic Cuba Holidays, but time does not allow me to see firsthand the good technical qualities this place is famous for. The Xanadu Mansion –former residence of millionaire Irenee Dupont de Nemours and currently housing the Varadero Golf Club– is a majestic construction featuring an interior decoration excellently well preserved.
Varadero nights are full of music and dance as my luxury holidays in Cuba.
Sunset is close at hand and that is for sure one of the best times of the day for taking a swim at the beach. It is a sin to pass by Varadero as part of my all inclusive holidays in Cuba, without diving into the sea. As a matter of fact, these are miles of crystal-clear waters and white sands we are talking about, an offer you just can not refuse.
In Varadero Beach, other 32 diving sites stretch out from the Matanzas City bay area all the way to the western side of this charming place. A number of coralline formations, scattered all around the platform, slopes slowly to the depths. Trapped in the sea bottom are a frigate armed with cannons, a freight airplane and a gunboat, all of them intentionally sunk for the pleasure of scuba divers. While I am diving in the depths of these beautiful waters I think that this Cuba Holidays of mine really worth a try.
I come back to the hotel and I have previously decided not to go out tonight, however, the beauty of the Varadero nights invites me to go out. There are some many places where I could go and I have not to much time to enjoy them on this Cuba Holidays that I wish never ends. I have heard from some friends of mine that on their Caribbean Holidays in Cuba They have gone to "La Rumba", Mambo Club, The Pirate's Cave ( La Cueva del Pirata), La Comparsita among others so after I watching the nightly show of the Cuban stars at the Melia I go to La Comparsita in order to add some music, dance and Cuban Cocktails to this amazing Cuba Holidays without mattering that I have to wake up early in the morning to make a beeline for the airport to start out the second part of my frenzied adventure: Santiago de Cuba and Holguin.
