The 2nd reason of choosing Cuba for spending your package Holidays
We invite you on this Christmas holidays to follow the road swinging along Sierra Maestra in the heart of the most significant mountain range of Cuba, where an oasis is sighted: El Salton, with its cascades measuring 30 m high, thus forming in its bottom, three natural pools.
This is one of the access doors to the Hero City, and on this luxury holidays in Cuba you are going to have a special key to get to Santiago de Cuba where the Caribbean merges with its mountains and participates in other waterfalls as El Indio, El Negro and La Alcarraza. The natural pools and ponds are very beautiful: Peladero, Turquino, Sevilla.
La Sierra Maestra will have a lot of surprises waiting for you on this Caribbean holidays in Cuba for instance: Baconao Park, the Turquino Peak and La Gran Piedra which are emblematic places in Santiago's geography and history that will you the unique opportunity for the practice of trailing and climbing, during your holidays in Cuba.
Baconao and Its Mysteries
Baconao Lagoon of fresh and sea waters, the result of the permanent flow of the river and the sea, is one of the exclusive features of Nature in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba that you can enjoy while spending this Cuba Holidays in Santiago de Cuba. You can also swim on the river of the same name that feeds the large pond of over 9 km that covers the large lagoon. A replica of a taino village is there found, this was the site of old settlers and its surroundings show a large sample of fishes, seabirds, reptiles and ecotourism trails. Visiting this amazing place will be one of the best experiences you will live on this Cuba Holidays.
At the Baconao Great Nature Park, the Sculpture Meadows and the Jurassic-style Valley of Pre-history meet the eye. There are horses from all times, pachyderms and giant birds carved in limestone. You can not miss the opportunity of taking pictures of this giant sculptures on this package holidays in Cuba.
There is also another unique offer for your summer holidays in Santiago de Cuba and this is a typical seaquarium down the Baconao road featuring shows starred by trained marine species; and the coastline is dotted by beaches while the Baconao Lagoon is hedged with mountains.
For the sea lovers that like to dive on their all inclusive holidays in Cuba, there are plenty of diving centres in Santiago de Cuba. The diving area in the most Caribbean Cuban province is 150 km long very near the coast, with remarkable heterogeneity and a great amount of spots. Since the end of the 19th century there are some ships sunken in the marine bottoms of Santiago and they belonged to the Spanish Cervera's fleet, defeated on July 3rd, 1898 by the powerful US Army.
La Gran Piedra: a place to enjoy on this package holidays in Cuba.
La Gran Piedra (The Big Stone) is one of its wonders that you will find on this Cuba Holidays in Santiago de Cuba. It crowns the mountain bearing the same name and the stone volume measures 70,000 tons. It is a giant crag of volcanic origin which have been registered in the Record Guinnes Book as the planet's highest stone with more than 1,200 meters above sea level and its ascent consists of going up 400 steps. La Gran Piedra, is surrounded by pine trees of numerous varieties, giant ferns and small fruit trees and is located along the cordillera bearing the same name. It has been declared World Biosphere Reserve. The Rock shows off a watchtower perched on top of it that overlooks the Caribbean Sea and the Sierra Maestra mountain range. Touching the clouds with your own hands will be an event that you will never forget of your Caribbean Holidays in Cuba.
Another capricious feature of Nature is found at the Hoya de Bartlett, showing 7,500 m deep; one of the largest uneven geographical depth in the world. Only during this all inclusive holidays you will find that there are 15 protected natural areas with the same classification; among them is a system of caverns that encompasses 47 caves as that of Cueva de los Majaes, the one that registers the highest temperature of the island.
Swaying in exaggerations
Exaggerations used to describe the city suit anybody to the ground. There are Egyptian and Peruvian mummies in the Bacardi Museum. Major ruins of coffee plantations established by French-Haitian settlers and the Morro Castle –monuments labelled as Heritage of Mankind by UNESCO- are preserved. All these wonders will be available just for you while enjoying this Cuba Holidays in Santiago de Cuba.
Thousands of people come to Santiago de Cuba on their Cuba Holidays in order to swarm the village of El Cobre and crowd the basilica named after the site where high on an altar stands the Virgin of Charity –crowned by Pope John Paul II during his visit to the island nation in 1998. The Sanctuary, the Virgin of Charity, and the outdoor copper mine –the oldest in the Americas- , the Slave Trail opened by UNESCO and Cuba's Monument to the Runaway Slave are dear to this community.
Going back to the citadel aspects of your luxury holidays in Santiago de Cuba, the Cuba's former capital you have to walk into the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, where Cuba Holidays Makers can take a look at the Jose Marti Monument, outfitted with supporting arches that let sunlight in to bask the sculpture's forehead all day long, exactly the way the National Hero asked for in his verses: "I'll die with my face to the sun."
Discovering where the heart of Santiago de Cuba beats.
To know Santiago Cuba, and above all its happy inhabitants, there are two excellent places to go since the very arrival on this summer holidays. First to La Plaza Dolores, tiny but lively parks where people go to have a chat amidst fresh trees that surround the statue of Francisco Vicente Aguilera and secondly, to Cespedes Park considered the first centre of social life in the city since it was a former Plaza of Arms, surrounded by significant buildings as the Diego Velasquez's house, the Municipal Government, the Metropolitan Cathedral and the hotel Casa Granda. In both places you can have nice chats to the inhabitants of this marvellous city and finding out more of its customs and tradition, enriching your Cuba Holidays.
Only thanks to your all inclusive holidays in Santiago de Cuba you will discover that the heart of Santiago de Cuba beats and throbs in Cespedes Square showcasing the burg's oldest buildings like the cathedral, the oldest house in the Americas that belonged to Governor Diego Velazquez and where Fidel Castro spoke to the Cuban people for the first time ever after the triumph of the Revolution. Stores, money exchange houses, banks and institutions whose facades overlook Cespedes Square and give people's touch to the surrounding environment also stand tall.
This is no doubt an intimate and hospitable destination for your Cuba Holidays. You will melt into its bustling squares, museums and marketplaces. At the end of these holidays in Cuba you will notice all the valuable things Santiago is praised for. A peerless city that has no match, built to the shape of its hillsides, featuring a mesh of roads and avenues that fork at the curves and resting like a shroud over its mountainous landscape.
Due to its geographical location, and its human roots, it has rightly been called the most Caribbean of the Cuban cities and this is the exactly place where your Cuba Holidays are going to be even more Caribbean. Whatever the history is, the truth is that getting to the second most important city in Cuba produces the sensation that you are in an unrepeatable place, not only for the city itself, that is of a exquisite grace but also because of its people, who are real examples of hospitability. On either way, you will find interesting sites like the Bacardi Museum, the Troubadour House, or Velasquez's Balcony, Heredia Theatre, Tropicana Santiago Cabaret, the French coffee plantation and La Isabelica in the Gran Piedra.
Santiago de Cuba: A city full of culture and tradition
Culture, music and a whole lot more will be waiting for you in Santiago de Cuba on this Cuba Holidays. There are 28 museums and cultural institutions in Santiago de Cuba: The House of Traditions, the House of Troubadours, the House of Music, the Caribbean House, Heredia's Birthplace House, Compay Segundo's Place, let alone the Caribbean Festival or the Celebration of Fire, carnivals and the annual Expo Caribe Fair.
Santiago's musical tradition harks back to the very dawn of time with guitars, guiros and bongos from Sindo Garay, Pepe Sanchez, Matamoros and Los Compadres to today's singers like Eliades Ochoa, Francisco Repilado, world-known Compay Segundo and Buena Vista Social Club's Ibrahim Ferrer, crooners all whose music has made the whole wide world trip the light fantastic. You will make your body moves on this Cuba Holidays with the best of the Cuban Music. To both listen to and dance to this great music, Santiago de Cuba is packed with such spots as the House of Troubadours staging concerts nearly every single day, and the Casa Granda Hotel, the ARTEX Patio or the Grandpas' Backyard. A flair for music and a graceful gait will give a santiagueros way tot your Package holidays in Cuba.
Poets and intelligentsia people have sung their songs to the city as you are going to do when you leave this city, like Grenada's bard Federico Garcia Lorca when he wrote: When the full moon comes shining through / I'll go to Santiago de Cuba / riding a carriage of black waters / I'll go to Santiago de Cuba.
The city is the usual site for the Festival of Caribbean Culture, the bolero, the son, and the artistic sensibility of the birthplace of the traditional ballad song is so strong that Santiago de Cuba has become the best Cuban stage to welcome cultural events as well as it is the best stage for your Cuba Holidays. Therefore, it has deserved to be called The Cultural Capital of the Caribbean.
I'll back to Santiago
Santiago de Cuba is different and always the same with a luring combination of history, culture and tradition, the city housing the Virgin of Charity –the island nation's patroness saint- and blessed with a magnificent bay, architecture and a street ambiance that will make so unique your Caribbean Holidays in Cuba. After spending your all inclusive holidays in this city you will surely say aloud: I'll be back to Santiago.
This hospitable and intimate destination, Santiago de Cuba is one of the island nation's most charismatic cities that stand out especially for its history, culture and traditions.
They are gleeful-partying people with great awareness of what homeland is all about. Thanks to your Cuba Holidays you are going to be there to feel this human touch. Heroic city, holy city, musical city, rebel city, hospitable city, troubadour-like city with its Golden Apple, its fortresses and its sweeter-than-sweet nooks and crannies. You will be back to Santiago riding on other wings.
