5 Best Shopping in Western Cuba, Cuba

Café de María

This homey café has a tiny terrace with a view over the valley. Try the chocolate-vanilla espresso, liberally dusted with dark cocoa and accompanied by a cookie (CUC$1). You can take home a hand-sewn cloth bag of this dark-roasted coffee for CUC$4.
Moka Alley, Las Terrazas, Artemisa, 33800, Cuba

Centro Comercial Caimán

While wandering through Varadero's street markets, look for this cluster of shops.

Av. 1, e/Calle 61 y Calle 62, Varadero, Matanzas Province, 42200, Cuba

El Cusco Bazaar

This shop is full of hand-made textiles and wood and fabric creations, from rag dolls to decorative boxes to children's clothes.
Crafts
Moka Alley, Las Terrazas, Artemisa, 33800, Cuba

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El Ilang

You can sniff colognes made from local flowers and herbs and buy hand-decorated vials of your favorites (CUC$5--CUC$6). Ilang is made from flowers of the ilang-ilang tree, the same basis for Chanel No. 5 perfume.

Librería Hanoi

Like all book stores in Cuba, the stock here is strong in the usual sociopolitical tracts approved by the regime, but this shop also has a good collection of paperbacks in English.

Av. 1 y Calle 44, Varadero, Matanzas Province, 42200, Cuba
4566–8917