6 articles tagged with cuba travel
Standing in the rust-colored valley of Viñales with mogotes (limestone karsts) jutting dramatically from the earth, I felt that peculiar time-slip sensation I chase in my travels. Here in western Cuba, merely two hours from Havana's pulsing energy, the valley...
The crystalline waters of Varadero have long been the siren call that draws travelers to this slender peninsula jutting into the Straits of Florida. But as the grandson of Mexican immigrants who taught me that the soul of a place...
When I first launched my paraglider over the tobacco fields of Viñales after a grueling cross-country journey from Bayamo, the perspective I gained wasn't just aerial—it was a culmination of a two-week adventure traversing Cuba's diverse landscape from east to...
The first time I visited Santa Clara, I did what every tourist does – made a beeline for Che Guevara's mausoleum and snapped the obligatory photo beneath his bronze statue. But after seven visits to this central Cuban city (thanks...
There's something profoundly telling about how a culture moves its people. Two weeks split between Trinidad, Cuba and Ypres, Belgium taught me this lesson in vivid technicolor this spring. In one corner: colonial-era streets where restored Chevys rumble past horse-drawn...
The moment I stepped onto Trinidad's cobblestone streets, my surveyor's heart skipped a beat. This perfectly preserved colonial town, nestled between the Escambray Mountains and the Caribbean Sea, represents one of the most extraordinary architectural time capsules I've encountered in...
