Cuba is a destination that we know very well. We had the chance to visit « The Big Island » of the Caribbean more than fifty times and explore all the tourist attractions of Cuba and several small remote areas, far from the beaten tracks.

Since 1999, we share our experiences of travel on the web. We've put together forty-one websites, including sixteen exclusively about Cuba. Some of them are very popular and easy to find by typing their names in Google or Bing web search engines! We are constantly adding new websites to our collection, it is almost a full-time job :o)

Our websites contain a lot of informations, photos, videos and stuff you must know to better plan your trip. As we have several sites on Cuba, it became more convenient to summarize the general informations on Cuba in a single site rather than repeat the same common knowledge in each of our sites.

This site is therefore, a good aid for tourists wishing to prepare his next trip to the « Isla Grande ». We are proud to share our work on the web with lovers of Cuba and hope our websites will make you decide to discover this beautiful island and its inhabitants. ¡Nuestra segunda casa! Cuba is is on the eve of great changes. We try to keep our sites the most accurate as possible.

The Republic of Cuba, consists of the main island of Cuba (the largest island in the whole Caribbean with an area of 110.922 km2), Pine Island (also known as Island of Youth since 1976) and several thousand small islands named « Cayo ». Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean at the confluence of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean.

The provinces of Cuba ...

Since 2010, the western provinces of Cuba have been redesigned. The former province of La Habana is now named Mayabeque. Its size as well as for Pinar del Rio have been reduced to create a new province called Artemisa. The province of La ciudad de la Habana (capital) remains the same in size.

1- Isla de la Juventud	2- Pinar del Rio	3- Artemisa
4- Ciudad de la Habana (capital)	5- Mayabeque	6- Matanzas
7- Cienfuegos	8- Villa Clara	9- Sancti Spiritus
10- Ciego de Avila	11-Camaguey	12- Las Tunas
13- Holguin	14- Granma	15- Santiago de Cuba
16- Guantanamo

 

Cuba is the second most populated island in the Caribbean (Hispaniola being the first) with its 11,423,952 inhabitants (July 2008). Cuba was a Spanish colony from 1492 to 1898. The demographics and Cuban culture result mainly from mixing of Spanish culture (the colonizers) and African (the slaves). A special mention must be reserved for Cuban music rhythms such as salsa, son, mambo and cha-cha-cha.

The capital of Cuba is Havana (about 2.5 million inhabitants). The language spoken is Spanish, but English is generally well understood and / or spoken among workers in the tourism industry. Some speak German, Italian or French.

Who had never heard about the beaches of Cuba? Though beautiful, they are not all identical. The « Cayos » or small islands are the places where the sand is as white and fine, like flour. The majority of the Cayos are located north of the large island in the archipelago. Cayo Largo (south) has more than 20 continuous kilometers of beach! Everywhere in Cuba there are wonderful places for snorkeling or diving, in a pristine environment.

What about the Cuban countryside? A peaceful place, a warm and welcoming people, superb scenery. We visited the province of Pinar del Rio few times. It is our favorite for landscape, color of red earth, green with its tobacco fields and blue sky in front of which cut rounded mountains (Mogotes). Almost unreal! There are many other beautiful landscapes in Cuba like the Sierra Escambray and the majestic Sierra Maestra located in the south.

Invariably, when we think Cuba, the image of cities with old cars comes to mind. Indeed, Cuba is a journey through time! Following the takeover by Fidel Castro in 1959, the cars of wealthy Americans have been abandoned by their owners, but Cubans have always continued to restoring them with most of the time, Russian parts! These cars are called « Maquinas »  or  « Yank Tank ». You will find a lot of them in the old city of Havana.

Do not miss the magnificent capital of Cuba, you will not be disappointed! There are also lovaly places like Trinidad the « city-museum », Santa Clara « the city of Che Guevara », Cienfuegos « Pearl of the South », Santiago de Cuba the city's most Afro-Cuban, Camaguey symbolized by its typical clay pots, Matanzas « City of Bridges » where you can find the most popular tourist destination of Cuba called Varadero.