Fodor's Essential Caribbean
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Between rolling mountains and dazzling shores, fine cigars and vintage cars, Cuba captivates visitors with its abundant tropical pleasures and cultural treasures. White-sand beaches entice sun worshippers by day, and clubs pulsing with Afro-Cuban jazz own the night. In Havana, locals debate baseball on street corners shaded by royal palms and neo-classical buildings while Studebakers whiz past. In the colonial town of Trinidad, villagers gather in plazas lit by wrought-iron lamps, and in the countryside, tobacco fields tended by guajiros (farmers) spread across the Viñales Valley.
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Havana
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Central Cuba
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Eastern Cuba
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Western Cuba
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Varadero
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Santiago de Cuba
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Cienfuegos
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Trinidad
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Camaguey
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Baracoa
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Matanzas
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Guardalavaca
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Cayo Coco and Cayo Guillermo
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Sancti Spiritus
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Parque Baconao
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Peninsula de Zapata
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Santa Clara
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Playa Santa Lucia
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Holguin
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Valle de Viñales
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Bayamo
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Ciego de Ávila
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Soroa and Las Terrazas
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Pinar del Rio
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Peninsula de Ancon
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Moron
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Playa Giron
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Manzanillo
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Cayo Largo
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Remedios
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Cardenas
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Parque Nacional Turquino
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Topes de Collantes
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Guajimico
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Maria la Gorda
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Chivirico
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Guantanamo
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El Valle de los Ingenios
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Isla de la Juventud
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Yara
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San Juan y Martinez
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Cayo Las Brujas
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Cayo Levisa
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Havana
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Santiago de Cuba
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Varadero
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Cienfuegos
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Trinidad
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Camaguey
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Matanzas
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Baracoa
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Guardalavaca
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Cayo Coco and Cayo Guillermo
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Sancti Spiritus
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Peninsula de Zapata
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Santa Clara
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Playa Santa Lucia
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Bayamo
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Valle de Viñales
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Holguin
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Ciego de Ávila
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Pinar del Rio
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Soroa and Las Terrazas
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Peninsula de Ancon
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Playa Giron
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Moron
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Remedios
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Manzanillo
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Cayo Largo
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Cardenas
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Maria la Gorda
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Topes de Collantes
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Guajimico
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El Valle de los Ingenios
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Guantanamo
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Chivirico
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San Juan y Martinez
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Yara
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Cayo Las Brujas
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Cayo Levisa
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