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February 29 - March 14, 2024 - Travelled to Cuba for our fourth visit to this amazing country. The weather was perfect, sunny, warm afternoons, cooler morning and evening. The ocean was crystal clear with shades of different colors of blue. Arrived in Havana and stayed at our previous Casa Particular with Daniel and Fina. Wonderful friends now and she makes a delicous breakfast for us each morning. Lots of fresh fruits, juice, toast and cheese omelets. Went to the different Plazas to see all the architecture, very stunning from the 1800's, early 1900's. Rode the Red Bus around Havana to all the different areas, which included seeing the new, huge, all-inclusive hotels on the west side, along the ocean side. After a few days, took a collectivo taxi, south to Vinales, which is a town that is surrounded by the National Park of Vinales, sits in a lush valley. Visited the Park to see the Prehistoric Wall, the gigantic cave, where we took a boat ride through part of it. La...
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3 - 13 - 19  Traveled to Cuba for our third visit from February 26 to March 12 was truly fantastic and would have liked to stay longer.  Went to the eastern side and along the coast, which had a different feel from the west side that is more crowded with tourists from around the world.  Still, very few Americans are traveling to this island "where time has stood still" and do not know that they can freely travel there without doing an expensive tour or taking a cruise with a group of other tourists.  Cubans love Americans and when they asked where we were from, they were astonished to hear from USA and wanted to know why more Americans were not here.  Flew into Holguin, after taking a plane from NYC to Miami, then Miami to Holguin and takes longer to get to the eastern side, but well worth it. A collective taxi met us at the airport and took us to Santiago de Cuba, which was Cuba's first capitol, is a port town on the coast with views of the ocean and steep hil...
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