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Is Playa Sirena The Best Beach In Cuba?
The Best Beaches In Cuba! Playa Sirena is located in Cuba, on the Cayo Largo del Sur island. Cayo Largo is located in the ocean off the southern side of the island, just east of Isla de la Juventud. You can see a photo here. Playa Sirena is a possibly the most beautiful beach in Cuba. The sand is flawless. Perfect white powder, accumulated over [...]
Cubans Rushing To Buy Hard Currencies As Uncertainties Increase
Cuba to Get Rid of The CUC Convertible Peso In 2014 Cuba announced that it was doing away with its dual currency system. Gone would be the days that state workers were paid in Moneda Nacional, while the harder CUC currency (pegged to the US dollar) was used to buy most hard goods and food from supermarkets. The two currencies were set to merge into [...]
Food boxes are everywhere in Cuba. Need a quick meal? Just pick one up!
The Best Quick Meals in Cuba Well, the old Cuban story goes that the boxes started when a man was going to host a birthday party for his young son, but was worried that there was not enough food for all the guests. Rather than simply setting up a table and letting each guest take as much as they wanted, the man decided to portion all [...]
Baracoa; quite possibly the most beautiful place in the world. Natural and untouched
Best Attractions and Things to See in Baracoa, Cuba How's this for a destination "off the beaten path." Baracoa is located on the eastern tip of Cuba, a thousand kms east of Havana. If you have the chance, GO! It is a marvelous place, mostly untouched by settlements and tourism. The town of Baracoa is tiny, with probably not more than a few thousand inhabitants. [...]
Turkey May Be Building Cuba’s First Mosque, in Havana
For years, Cuba’s Muslims—estimated at just a few thousand—have been a bit, well, unorthodox. Most have favored a flexible version of Islam that’s adjusted to years of living in the pork-loving Communist state. Religious practices like avoiding booze, fasting on Ramadan and getting circumcised are often considered optional for Muslims on the island. Many haven’t even worshiped at a mosque, since Cuba has never permitted one. That [...]
May 1st rallies and celebrations take place throughout Cuba, and Havana!
As every year, the enormous Plaza de la Revolution, in Havana, will host the main rally and festivities related to the International labor day. President Raúl Castro is expected to attend, as well as the new Secretary general of the Confederation of workers of Cuba (CTC), Ulises Guilarte. The celebration comes after the twentieth Congress of the CTC (Union), held in February, which adopted a [...]
