Sharing Marco Polo's Spirit of travelling on this Cuba Holidays
Marco Polo, the best-known voyager of all time, described for Europeans the geography, traditions and existence of many regions he toured from Venice to the faraway nooks and crannies of Asia. The extraordinary effect of his journeys egged on other sailors to take to the seven seas, helped the development of cartography, trade and diplomacy, paved the way for millions of readers from around the globe and built a fire under the crew that brought Christopher Columbus not to the Indies, but to the Caribbean and the rest of the Americas.
What scholars never mention about Marco Polo is that he brought about change by travelling. He grew up as a man, proved himself and learned other languages and customs, put his wisdom and skills to the test, enhanced his own horizons and took a firsthand look at other religious creeds. In a word, he loved, grew up, longed for his culture and knew what the pleasure of coming back is all about. Experiencing the same feeling as the great traveller of all time is an opportunity that you can not loose while travelling to Cuba on this Caribbean Holidays. Knowing more about our customs, traditions, language, religion and nature will be an experience that you will never forget of this luxury holidays.
Travelling brings about Changes, changes for good.
The point is that this Caribbean holiday in Cuba will bring about changes. Changes for the better, no matter what the motivations, the duration, the rhythm, the means of transportation, the time of year, the crew or the dark desires of Cuba Holidays makers might be. A journey is a change that changes. The heart of the matter is to embark on the kind of trip that you need and ward off the wrong voyage. Yet you do not have to be frightened by the weight or significance of the word change. Sometimes you just want to change the surrounding scenery, the tan of your skin, the entire look, the scope of mundane knowledge, the food you eat, come up with new anecdotes, souvenirs, keepsakes or new words, or perhaps it is all about getting off the treadmill and leaving behind the backlog of pending tasks. That definitely feels good. And it is going to feel even better as soon as you start having your encounter with Cuban nature on this summer holidays.
Some other times, either on similar or different journeys, purposely or unexpectedly, the trip goes beyond all that and winds up livening up the spirit, the creation of new motivations, the knowledge of other peoples, the change of certain values, the rupture of biased behaviours, the reaffirmation of identities, the forgetfulness of sorrows or the encounter of love... all at once. This is a brief description of what you might feel during you all inclusive holidays in Cuba. What are you waiting for? This is the best time of your life to have a change, a change for good while enjoying your package holidays in Cuba.
Travelling is a natural activity of man since the beginning of Mankind.
Regardless of how contemporary the concept of tourism might sound, and despite the modern triviality that sometimes perks it up, travelling is as old as mankind and serious enough to make a profound splash in our own lives. From the dawn of man to date, sacred and historic books, the fine arts, the performing arts and literature have portrayed travelling as a natural activity of all human beings, just like work and language. Therefore, you do not have to feel of what these changes will bring about to your life during this luxury holidays, travelling is as old as man kind.
Maybe this simple truth trapped in a nutshell gave rise to travel and pried it open as a universal token of life and spirituality. Not even the simplest voyage can be boiled down to a mere physical and geographical tour through space and time. All roads pose challenges of their own and all trips –no matter how pleasant they might be- are challenges and you will live the best challenge of all while spending your Christmas holidays in Cuba when you have an encounter of your own with obliviousness, of the same with the different, of the intimate with the public, of the past with the present. That is the driving force and the psychological value of travelling.
There are countless situations, problems, ailments and routine in which popular wisdom has always suggested people to travel to Cuba. Youngsters eager to underscore their independence and ideals, sometimes rush past the threshold of adultness by embarking on a trip. Many centuries before Christ, Siddhartha Gautama (Buda) left his family behind and all the wealth he had to set out in search of truth. Many centuries later, as depicted by Walter Selles in his great movie Diaries of Motorcycle, a couple of middle-class young men hit the road not only to unearth the dark side of a world that was both close at hand and too far to reach out to, but find themselves caught up in a web of laughter, love affairs, adventures, pains, sorrows, hurdles and emotions that were good enough to make them change their lives and inquire about the world.
Travel spurs creativeness and imagination
But ordinary young men, who are not philosophers, preachers or heroes, can find in travelling to Cuba on their summer holidays a multitude of psychological benefits. And as a matter of fact, that is also a possibility of change for possessive, authoritarian, demanding and overprotective parents who are put through their paces when their children decide to sally forth on their own, only with their travel mates and knapsacks in tow.
Travel spurs creativeness and imagination out of the clash between personal patterns and new traditions and scenes. They stimulate in-depth study of things you watch on the road and buttress the ability to observe things carefully. Odysseus, Herodotus, Cervantes, Darwin and Humboldt, alongside many other travellers, have enjoyed for centuries the pleasure of becoming far better observers. It does not matter whether it is an epic, historic, adventurous, revealing, and scientific or leisure journey. What really matter is that you finally decide to take a Cuban flight and travel to an island that will make all your dreams come true during this amazing all inclusive holidays in Cuba.
Without their own voyages, Cervantes would have never written Don Quixote and Herodotus could have never chanted about the ancient world, nor Darwin would have come up with his natural selection theory. Once again, I resort to extreme examples to make my point, but we are not so much different from Darwin when we stop to see how fish are caught and fried in far-off seaports, when we watch how the colour of the sea changes when we fly over the Caribbean on a Cuba flight while travelling to the Cuba Holidays of our life. Travelling shifts our intellectual processes into higher gear.
When we travel we do it for a lot of reasons, even for love.
But travelling is good for lots of other things, too. You can set out on a trip to pay a promise, to have mystical experiences, to relive historic occurrences, to stay away from someone or to meet that same person, to walk away from strain or to get trapped in a bustling ambience, to take chances or find shelter, to fight off depression and win back an illusion. You put the motive and we assure you to put the best of our island to make of this Cuba Holidays of yours the most remarkable event you have ever lived.
Last but not least, you travel for love. People are recommended to take trips in order to put an old love in the back on their minds or to find love, even to rekindle the flame of a love affair that is just about to go out. The start of a new stage of life begins with a honeymoon trip. There are no limits as to time and age: in any time of year and at any age, travelling makes life more fun and changes everything. Therefore, if it is your case, do not think it twice and travel to Cuba on this Caribbean holidays to consolidate your love on this unforgettable honeymoon.
A legendary love story
Thus, in Garcia Marquez's Love in Times of Cholera, after Florentino Ariza reiterated his invitation to Ferminia Daza, a widow, to take on a relaxing trip together down the Magdalena River, she finally accepted. Once in the cabin of the New Fidelity vessel, she realized Florentino Ariza was the man she had always had within her reach. The morning after, when she saw him speaking with the skipper, she noticed a different man before her eyes, "Not only because she used to look at him differently at the time, but also because he had indeed changed." Once you are in Cuba spending this marvellous Cuba Holidays with your couple, you will feel like these famous characters of this remarkable love history of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and your love will be like them: an endless love.
On this Cuba Holidays you will feel like them and even think like they did when Ferminia was also changing with each passing day. "My God, how crazy I am when I am on a ship!" she said. When Ferminia eventually got off the boat, she realized that "roses smelled better than before, and birds were chirping at daybreak louder than before." From that moment on, Florentino Ariza and Ferminia Daza started hearing the mermaid singing of manatees, began caring for the conservation of species and never stopped remembering stories from the past. Together forever, and with the same determination that a 17-year-old young man named Marco Polo set sail to China, the pair of seniors ventured into the future. Love and travelling had definitely changed them for good as well as this Cuba Holidays will do with you.
Cuba and the Caribbean, Ecotourism and Biodiversity
Now that you have decided to follow the adventurous spirit of travelling and protection nature in this luxury holidays in Cuba, you will need some guidance in this journey to freedom. The prodigious Caribbean nature has turned out to be a valuable source of adventures and new discoveries, a reason why ecotourism and its different modalities have claimed a top spot of their own in the daily going of the region's travel industry.
A paradise for endemism, natural beauties and biodiversity as far as flora and wildlife are concerned are some of the choices this Caribbean holidays has to offer, other than the more traditional sun-and-sand circuits. Birds, famous geographical features, one-and-only rocky formations, beaches of powder-thin sands and crystal-clear waters, peerlessly beautiful sea bottoms good enough to make a scuba diver's day and bright sunshine all year round are things the region has always offered in an array of unforgettable experiences.
These territories that drifted away from the mainland millions of years ago, eventually made up a group of islands, islets, keys and archipelagos called the Caribbean, and specially Cuba: the dreamed island which is the best destination of this all inclusive holidays. The local scenery has many similarities and differences with the continental land this island has broke free from, even though they do not always pop up to a naked eye.
After decades of toilsome dedication to the making of raw materials, the Caribbean has found in tourism the economic thrusters it needed so badly to make things happen. Today, this is one of the top travel destinations on the face of the earth. Caribbean authorities have begun to cotton on to the need of increasing their tourist offerings with a number of exclusive themes. Every mountain climbers, birdwatchers, agriculture enthusiasts or solitary trekkers can find in this neck of the woods what they are truly looking for. Regarding Cuba, all the needs of even the most demanding Cuba Holidays makers are going to be satisfied, as well as their thirst of adventure and travel on this ecological Cuba Holidays.
Cuba's best destinations for your ecological journey
Most experts forebode dramatic upturns in the number of Cuba Holidays makers in loved with our nature visiting Cuba in coming years, given the island nation's endemism, lavish flora, abundant wildlife species and official commitment to environmental protection.
As Cuba is an island blessed by nature there are too many suggestions to make you on this journey to the Caribbean on this Cuba Holidays. There are three well-defined divisions within the Cuban archipelago –the Western, Central and Eastern regions. In Pinar del Rio –the country's westernmost province- visitors have the national parks of Viñales Valley (Cultural Heritage of Mankind) and Guanahacabibes (Biosphere Reserve), as well as Sierra del Rosario, Soroa and Las Terrazas. Moving eastbound to Matanzas, we find a couple of valuable spots: the Zapata Marshlands (Cultural Heritage of Mankind) and Ramsar in Varahicacos, an ecological reserve located in the world-class tourist circuit of Varadero. In central Cuba, lovers of nature tourism may visit the protected natural landscapes of Topes de Collantes and Hanabanilla, as well as the mountains of Guamuhaya, a special sustainable development area running through the provinces of Cienfuegos, Villa Clara and Sancti Spiritus.
The eastern side of the country is dominated by Holguin and all its beauties that are dressed not only in green but also in blue, the Desembarco del Granma National Park (Natural Heritage of Mankind in the province of Granma), and the Sierra Maestra Nature Park, a special sustainable development area located in the province of Santiago de Cuba.
In the same breath, the Santiago de Cuba province boasts the Turquino National Park and the protected natural landscape of Gran Piedra. For its part, the province of Guantanamo harbors the Alejandro de Humboldt National Park (Natural Heritage of Mankind) and the Quibijan, Duaba and Yunque de Baracoa ecological reserves. As you can see there is a huge varying of options to make of this ecological Cuba Holidays the most extraordinary memory of your life time.
