This year we chose Cuba, there was curious to visit it as long as the political and social situatio

This year we chose Cuba, there was curious to visit it as long as the political and social situation was that of the last fifty years. As usual, we opted for a trip to DIY and we arranged a long time before to try to limit spending and create a route that would allow us to get to know most of the island. Thus begins the search for all the information and especially the flight, since we are eight. E 'need a visa (tourist or tarjetas) but you can find at any travel agency and then carefully fill in with your own data. We chose KLM via Panama because the price was quite cheap (E. 666.00 A / R). We were a little 'disappointed cheap holidays though because the leg room was really tight and given the length of the trip and the high-sounding name of the company certainly more than we expected! We booked everything from Italy: Particular houses, hotels, internal flights and private bus with driver, good driver, Daymer, known as El Negro (tel. 005353536928) who with his brand new 8-seater van Hunday accompanied us everywhere we will also as a guide and always remaining available to us and our 16 bags! Our itinerary was as follows: Havana (3 nights) - Vinales (2 nights) - Villa Guamà / Playa Larga (1 night) - Cienfuegos - Trinidad (3 nights) - Cayo Guillermo (1 night) Varadero (1 night ) - Cayo Largo (5 nights) - Havana (1 night).
- In the Zapata Peninsula: we chose Hotel Villa Guamà unfortunately closed due to a failure to electricity so we were diverted to a terrible and very expensive hotel: Hotel Playa Larga (78 Cuc per room with a horrible pseudocolazione)
Finally we go, the big isla awaits us, and so, after a stopover in Amsterdam and one in Panama, at 22.30 we are in Havana. Are waiting cheap holidays for a taxi already booked from Italy that takes us to our destination. Our first casa particular is located in the Vedado district, on the second floor of a building in good condition, and are run by Marisela, a energetic and resourceful woman who promises to reveal all the secrets of the capital. There is given a picturesque yellow-red room with private bathroom and air conditioning: the water from the shower head, at times hot, cold at times, down to the wire. They climb up to the balcony and white baroque, smog, traffic and incessant noise in a city that already has very lively. It 's very late and we need a good night's sleep. The night passes punctuated by prophetic dreams, disturbed sleep from six time zones and moaning stubborn and ignored the phone and the dogs. After a good breakfast we go into chaos. It accompanies Lissette, an extraordinary driving Cuban contacted by Italy, who speaks fluent Italian. Havana us immediately cheap holidays goes under the skin. His embrace is intense, with its narrow streets, people fair and multicolored houses in shades of yellow and tangerine, dilapidated slums, the incessant clamor of voices, a kaleidoscope cheap holidays of sensations that are difficult to focus. cheap holidays We continue to walk, to intercept and decipher the signals of this metropolis Caribbean; the beauty and serenity in the faces of children intent to live their childhood with games that recall other times, surprises us; the liveliness of their message of hope, it is a unexpected joy. Havana lies on a knee bruise and hurt, but the pride and joy of his young blooming in every corner. A group of teenagers passing under the balcony, going to dive into life with a book under his arm! We spend three days wandering among the crumbling buildings and restored those of Havana, among the heaps of garbage, including the streams of stagnant water among the stones, including the colorful facades of the houses, including children, living testimony of love Creoles, mestizos, passionate, colorful, marked by the rhythm of salsa
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