3 Best Shopping in Western Cuba, Cuba

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.

This shop is full of hand-made textiles and wood and fabric creations, from rag dolls to decorative boxes to children's clothes.

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.