Cuba a destination for Challengers
Pinar del Rio is one of the challenger's destinations in Cuba. The most western province offers most beautiful landscapes in Cuba and it is the best and unique natural attraction and the world's best tobacco land. Among the best Cuban hotels that are located in the area such as: Los Jazmines, La Ermita y Rancho San Vicente among others, there are other region's main attractions, Viñales Valley one of the most representative landscapes of the larger island in the Caribbean and has been declared Natural Monument of Cuba. Just when the sun is not beating down yet and a hazy shade of summer bodes the coming of balmier hours is the perfect time of day to traipse around the Viñales Valley. Round top hills shrouded by mind-boggling lush vegetation meet the eye as the royal palm, Cuba's national tree, stands out before our very eyes. Ingrained in this neck of the woods, you will find the tobacco plantations, located in chemically perfect soils. This is the perfect place for enjoying your really ecological Caribbean Holidays in Cuba.
When you wake up early in the morning and start hiking, the surrounding trails will cast the necessary spell for you to spend an excellent day of your Cuba Holidays. This is no doubt the magic of the place. The Viñales Valley is one of the island nation's most sought-after spots by Cuba Holidays Makers that choose Cuba as their top travel destination for spending their ecological holidays. This is a 50-square-mile extension that is part of the Sierra de los Organos mountain range, and in the same breath, is attached to the mountains of Guaniguanico.
This is a right destination for mountain climbers that like to add some adventure to their summer holidays in Cuba, because the round hilltops jut out magnificently over the plain. These rounded hills (hummocks) which are covered by exuberant vegetation, whose origin traces back to the Jurassic period are worth taking to look, on these landscapes. For naturalists, this is a geologically complex location teeming with limestone, slate, schist and sandstones, with much older structures, like the round top hills, crowning the scenery as a perfect complement to this above-described picture. The valley, with little more than 6 miles long and 3 miles wide offers you a huge space for letting free your Marco Polo spirit of adventure on this Cuba Holidays.
On the Viñales valley, there is a place that you have to visit on this all inclusive holidays in Cuba and it is the Prehistory Mural. The location offers an amazingly perfect view of the Prehistory Mural, right in the Viñales Valley, a monumental work of art authored by artist Leovigildo Gonzalez that recreates different stages of human evolution carved on the wall of one of the round top hills. The mural painting is so well done that it seems to be real and what you first think is that you have travelled in time and you are living on the dinosaurs' era during this Cuba Holidays.
The best destination for your ecological Cuba Holidays: Pinar del Rio
Visiting places like El Indio and Santo Tomas caves which are nature walks will be for those interested in spending their Cuba Holidays in a landscape full of clasp of the indescribable nature an amazing experience of this summer holidays in Cuba. The latter is the biggest of Cuba; its galleries have an extension of 45 kilometres and the best choice for a real luxury holidays.
In Pinar del Rio you can also have a friendly encounter with alligators. Dropping by the breeding grounds of alligators, seeing how they live and behave will be something more to tell to your friends when you return home after spending your package holidays in Cuba. On your all inclusive holidays, you can admire the variety of this specie its natural habitat. These are the largest breeding grounds of western Cuba and a beautiful place to visit on your Cuba holidays. These reptiles, which were once abundant along the shores, are now endangered species. Cuban laws have declared their protection. With some previous arrangements that are include on your Package holidays you can watch the freeing of two-year old alligators, the moment when they are ready to live a life of their own in the wild..
Where the isthmus of Guanahacabibes begins, your Cuba Holidays begins too. Cuba's largest lacustrine area with shores bathed both by the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, flowed by the Cuyaguateje River on the easternmost tip. This is the perfect place, for those who like risk and adventure and to add something different to their Caribbean Holidays in Cuba. As you walk into the prairie, you will notice immediately the irregular shoreline of the Guaniguanico Mountain Range, represented by the Alturas de Pizarras Del Sur, packed with lovely pinewoods and coniferous trees. Farther from there and moving to the northwest, a limestone wall meets the eye: The Sierra del Paso Real; in the background, The Sierra de Guane marks off the end of the Sierra De los Organos.
Guanahacabibes peninsula: where this Cuba Holidays begins.
Within the boundaries of the province, an area where people have spun some of the most colourful yarns is no doubt the Guanahacabibes Peninsula, a natural paradise in the Caribbean. Spanish vessels loaded with the treasures of the New World wrecked in the middle of engulfing storms, or were assaulted by pirates and filibusters that used to hide their loots in the beaches. Caribbean buccaneers became experts in going around a tight surveillance to smuggle their goods. Or just the place's rich biodiversity has also helped weave some of the most incredible stories. Diving in the waters of the Guanahacabibes peninsula while looking for those treasures will be an adventure to ever remember on this summer holidays.
To get to the peninsula, you need to travel from the city of Pinar Del Rio, driving through the south-western tobacco plantations and the province's most plentiful river, Cuyaguateje. The tour gives Cuba Holidays Makers the possibility of watching some of the old means of transportation used in the past. The region is also marked by lavish forests of precious wood that is used to make furniture, handicrafts and humidors.
In 1987, the peninsula's little more than 250,000 acres were declared Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO. In 2001, the region was labelled a National Park, whose main entrance is flanked by the Ecological Station and the La Bajada Weather Radar. In addition to providing meteorological services, the site is a coveted location offering accommodations, great food and backpacking options for tourists that have chosen this location for their Caribbean Holidays in Cuba.
The most western province of Cuba offers you its natural treasures
The peninsula features two capes: Corrientes and San Antonio, forming the Gulf of Corrientes in the south, a vast and quiet location in the Caribbean Sea. The southern coastline of the peninsula is relatively high, dotted by isolated, gorgeous sandy beaches trapped among cliffs, reefs and crags that are waiting for you to discover them as part of your package holidays in Cuba. The northern shore, for its part, is muddy and covered by mangrove thickets.
Cubans are continuously working on the conservation of this rich heritage is spreading around these lands to guarantee that the Guanahacabibes Peninsula continues to be a natural paradise in the Caribbean and your favourite location on this summer holidays.
The Guanahacabibes Peninsula is one of the chief breeding grounds for marine turtles in all of Cuba. Students from the University of Havana make voluntary beach patrolling as part of a college program for the study and preservation of marine turtles. If you are in love with the Cuban nature and like to visit and preserve this place we invite you to join us on this Cuba Holidays. The project is led by the Centre for Marine Research at the University of Havana. Life snaps into action as soon as you get to the peninsula: 150 bird species that include owls, wading goldfinches and hummingbirds. In addition to that, there are some 600 plant species, 30 different kinds of mammals, 21 reptile species and 19 types of amphibious critters.
Some eight miles from La Bajada, Cuba's last coastal community, you are going to find Maria la Gorda Diving Center, featuring comfy rooms and breathtaking beaches of crystal-clear water, coral-packed bottoms and unforgettable sunsets.
Moving to the west, some 36 miles, lays Cuba's westernmost tip: the Roncali Lighthouse, built in 1849, according to the plaque that crowns the entrance.
The Roncalli lighthouse, perched on Cuba's westernmost tip, was finally built in 1850. Taking a swim in the warm waters of Las Tumbas beach, not far from the lighthouse, is a gift to the senses and a marvellous offer on your Cuba holidays. The Dutch, on the southernmost tip of the San Antonio Cape also features a number of small horseshoe-shaped beaches of calm waters, which are waiting for you on your luxury holidays, such as: El Resguardo, Perjuicio, Caleta del Piojo, among others.
Soroa: Other beautiful place where you can let free your Marco Polo Travelling and adventuring spirit on this summer Holidays
Other beautiful place where you can let free your Marco Polo Travelling and adventuring spirit on this summer Holidays in Cuba is Soroa, which offers Cuba's biggest orchid garden, whose 750 orchid varieties-out of which 250 are endemic- are ready to welcome visitors that on their holidays prefer to admire their colours and scents. This is a unique opportunity that you will have in your Package holidays to gift this beautiful flower, symbol of lasting love to your beloved couple. In Soroa, you can climb up to the lookout, walk through paths in the vegetation searching for plant and animal species or go alongside the Manantiales River admiring its famous waterfall and bathing in its medicinal springs. Or you can visit the ruins of formerly French coffee plantations.
