Every day, there is a new place to visit, to discover and to admire in this beautiful island that seems to be created as the unique paradise where to spend your Cuba Holidays. Therefore, every year increase the number of visitors all over the world that choose Cuba as the perfect place to visit on their summer holidays. The active tourism in Cuba provides every time more and more possibilities of combining adventures with pleasure in order to let visitors be acquainted with relaxing and enjoying while being on their Cuba Holidays.
Cuba offers visitors lots of opportunities for adventure through water activities, horse riding, trekking, bike tourism, hiking and other combined modalities. All of them are created I order to make your all inclusive holidays in Cuba a moment to remember.
The Cuban tourism personnel, eager to respond to the demands of those who look for enjoyment on their Caribbean holidays beyond the traditional attractions of this island, have arrange tourism tours under the topics of adventures and nature. Among the diverse activities that are waiting for you to experience as part of your luxury holidays, it can highlight speleological tourism or cave diving for the study and observation of the Earth layers. Cuba is full of beautiful places for you to discover and enjoy on this package holidays and adding a touch of adventure to this Cuba Holidays would be an unforgettable experience.
There are plenty of Orientation Tour where the ability of tourists' orientation is tested such as: in the sites of La Terraza at Pinar del Rio province and on the Isla de la Juventud (Island of Youth) speleological cave excursions. There are other options waiting for you on this one of a kind Cuba Holidays, for instance: for those visitors that like to paint of the beautiful green of the Cuban countryside their summer holidays there are pleasant horse riding both in the eastern and western regions of Cuba and Other activities are closely linked to nature as bike-tourism through a number of arranged circuits and routes in the company of specialists and with a medical and technical staff service. On the other hand, for those visitors that the blue of the Cuban waters is what they like the most of their Christmas holidays may have the possibility of fishing in the Hanabanilla River and in the Zapata Peninsula canals.
For the Bravest
For the bravest visitors those who like to add a touch of adrenaline to their all inclusive holidays in Cuba, parachuting is an activity mainly held in Varadero, Cayo Coco, Guardalava (Holguin) and recently at Lenin Park as well as at the Cabana Fortress (Havana City) and the ascent, both free hands and feet as the artificial one (with harness) in the buttes of Pinar del Rio. Cuba also offers the possibility of diving, day and night, and of watching the colorful and assorted sea bottoms; diving with sharks, rides on helicopters, jeeps, trucks and the not less exciting safaris. As you can see, there is a world of adventure at the reach of your hand on this special Cuba Holidays.
Excursions along the Largest Island of the Antilles
There is a huge variety of excursions and places to visit during your Cuba Holidays: Those activities are created taking into account the requirements of the most exquisite taste and for all kind of visitors. Everyone from the child to the third age people can spend their Caribbean holidays in Cuba because they are options for all of them such as:
- Getting to the roof of Cuba: This activity is for those visitors that like to avoid the everyday life routine while being on this all inclusive holidays in Cuba. It starts in Manzanillo in the eastern province of Granma and ends with the climbing toward the steep Pino Rascacielos Peak which measures 1,250 m. During the tour, tourists will visit historic places in the Sierra Maestra mountainous range as the Command Headquarters of the Rebel Army at La Plata, its old headquarters and the Alto de Naranjo. As you can see, it is no only about entertainment but also of knowledge of the history of Cuba that is so rich and ancient. While enjoying of this tour, visitors will have the opportunity to admire the breath taking vegetation in this Cuban eastern region and opportunity that can only be achieve during your Cuba Holidays. Other places to be visited are the Sierra Maestra mountainous range, as well as the bird species which find their shelter there. The offer also provides tourists with the possibility of practicing water sports. As you can see, there is no time for boring while spending this summer holidays in Cuba.
- All elements combined: This is an option that was created for those visitors that are in love with Cuban flora and fauna and because of this decide to spend their all inclusive holidays in Cuba. It starts in the Marea del Portillo Resort in Manzanillo. The Mota Town in Cayo Blanco will be visited as well as the Niquero and Alegria del Pio towns. One of the places that we will have access to is the Samuel Cave, where stalactites and stalagmites can be seen along with several aboriginal pictographs. This will be the opportunity of your lifetime of taking the most beautiful pictures of a landscape to be catch in time and take it home as a memory of marvelous holidays in Cuba. Also the summit of Hoyo de Morlotte can be admired from a natural watch point.
- Ecological Safari: This is the opportunity of enjoying this Cuba Holidays in family. All members of the family generation can gather together in order to experience this special moment on this all inclusive holidays in Cuba. The program includes the visit to the Portillo Lagoon aboard the Acuarays; El Macio River with its crystal clear water pools and the natural pool which is the central camping point. As part of this excursion all the family can taste the delicious of the traditional Cuban dishes and the female members can take the recipes home as a way to remember this unique Cuba Holidays while the family is back home again. The safari starts at Cayo Blanco where visits are scheduled to Samuel Cave and to the natural watch tower. There is also a time which is dedicated to relaxation on the beach taking a breath to the rush of every day life and the most important thing taking a time to be in family only giving by this holiday in Cuba.
- Yumuri from the heights: This is an activity to be enjoyed aboard a Russian helicopter MI-8. Admiring the amazing drawings of the landscape from the heights of the Yumury valleys, seeing the green color of the vegetation combined with the blue color of the rivers is a which includes an exploration to Varadero from the airport until Melia America and Oasis hotels, a flight to Yumuri Valley and the visit to a peasant family. This activity is arranged by Gaviota Tours.
Jeep Safari: It's an adventure which tours over 150 km, through causeways, roads, rivers, quays, palm trees and peasant towns.
Topes de Collantes
This is a place that its visit is almost compulsory while you are enjoying this wonderful luxury holidays in Cuba. It will be a shame that you end your summer holidays without visiting Topes de Collantes. This place was created on a day that Mother Nature was in its best mood old people from the area said. The beauty of the scenery combined with the sounds of the birds and the crystal river flowing is an experience that all visitors have to live as part of their all inclusive holidays in Cuba. There is also the possibility of visiting around Cienfuegos City, lunch at the bottom of Escambray Mountains, a visit to Trinidad and to the Cantero Palace, the city museum. Staying at Topes de Collantes, at some 800 meters above the sea level, an excursion is scheduled on truck to Guanayara, hiking is practiced along the mountain until El Rocio Spring and finally a traditional lunch at Fiesta Campesina Farm where the fresh of the Cuban Typical drinks combined with the delicious taste of the Cuban cuisine, is the perfect touch to this very Cuban summer Holidays.
Activities for the Youngsters
There are all kind of activities that where created thinking in the young members of the family. This Cuba holidays takes advantage of the youth needs for freedom and independence and give them the possibility of experience new feelings while being on this holidays to Cuba. Havana city has plenty of places to visit on this Caribbean holiday where young people have the opportunity of getting acquainted with Cuban music and its creators. Every theater not only at the capital city but also on the rest of the Cuban provinces with young people the possibility of knowing better the Cuban Culture such as: the worldwide famous Cuban Ballet and the well known fame of the Cuban Painters. There is an elite option at the Havana nights at places like Tropicana, Parisien and plenty of other places where the Cuban music and dance can be enjoyed by youngsters and make this Cuba Holidays a unique experience to tell to their studies colleagues.
There are also other activities to those youngsters that like to add a touch of adventure to their Cuba Holidays. It is developed in the provinces of Pinar del Rio and Havana City where visits include: Las Terrazas, San Diego de los Banos Town, Los Portales Cave, Vinales Valley, Jutia Cay on the north coast and Pinar del Rio. The possibility of visiting the beaches of the easter part of the capital city is also provide as well as the unique opportunity of admiring the Nine O'Clock Cannon Fire Ceremony and a dinner at La Cabana Fortress.
Western Trekking: The travel starts in Havana where a tour begins along the colonial and modern area, visiting places as the Jose Marti Memorial, Pinar del Rio, La Piedra Lagoon, Ancón Valley, the canyon of Ancón River and the Pan de Azucar. Some of the tours will be aboard a bus toward the Pancho Martino Coffee Plantation to start the climbing to the Sierra Derrumbada. Baguano Cave and the Site of Hell are also on the
way. Further on, places will be visited as Soroa, Guajimico Village, the Zapata Peninsula, the Taino Village, the crocodile breeding center as well as excursions heading to Topes de Collantes, Topes Codina, the Codina Guanayara Trail, Rocio Spring, the natural water pools of Venado, the Cimarrones de Javira Trail, El Cubano Hacienda, Cayo Blanco and Trinidad City to then return to Havana City where tourists will enjoy their free time.
Sport Fishing
Cuba has developed high-seas fishing in different spots in the modalities of weighting and marking in Havana City, Varadero Beach and on the northern cays among others.
Regarding Havana diving, there are two centers to practice it, the Blue Reef and the Needle Fish which have 24 sites of interest. At Varadero Beach, over 28 diving sites are found linked to the Barracuda Center and Cienfuegos. Both the Faro Luna Diving Center and Cayo Coco have 23 sites. There are also courses for different levels which extend their corresponding ACUC certifications, with an international validity. Good yachts and experienced crew are available for sport fishing. The first fishing base for Fly fishing is located at Cayo Guillermo. Snorkeling can be practiced in Cuba.
