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#1 best-selling guide to Cuba*
Lonely Planet Cuba is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Join in the live music scene to experience Cubas legendary musical talent, cruise down the Malecon sea drive during sunset, or admire the casas particulares; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Cuba and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planet Cuba Travel Guide:
- Color maps and images throughout
- Highlightsand itineraries show you the simplest way to tailor your trip to your own personal needs and interests
- Insider tips save you time and money and help you get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
- Essential infoat your fingertips - including hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, and prices
- Honest reviewsfor all budgets - including eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
- Cultural insights give you a richer and more rewarding travel experience - including customs, history, art, literature, cinema, music, dance, politics, landscapes, and wildlife
- Free, convenient pull-out Havana map (included in print version), plus over 82 local maps
- Useful features - including Month-by-Month (annual festival calendar), Walking Tours, and Travel with Children
- Coverage of Havana, Pinar del Rio, Artemisa, Mayabeque, Isla de la Juventud, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Villa Clara, Sancti Spiritus, Camaguey, Las Tunas, Granma, Holguin, Santiago de Cuba, Guantanamo, and more
The Perfect Choice:Lonely Planet Cuba, our most comprehensive guide to Cuba, is perfect for those planning to both explore the top sights and take the road less travelled.
- Looking for more coverage? Check out Lonely Planets Caribbean Islands guide for a comprehensive look at what the whole region has to offer.
Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Brendan Sainsbury, and Luke Waterson.
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the worlds leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planets mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.
TripAdvisor Travelers Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category
Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other. - New York Times
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*Bestselling guide to Cuba Source: Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA, May 2012 to April 2013.
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Welcome to
Cuba
Trapped in a time-warp, Cuba is like a prince in a poor mans coat. Behind the sometimes shabby facades, gold dust lingers.
There ought to be a banner in the arrivals hall at Havana airport that reads Abandon preconceptions, all ye who enter here. Prepare yourself to be shocked, perplexed, confounded and amazed. Cuba is a country with no historical precedents: economically poor, but culturally rich; visibly mildewed, but architecturally magnificent; infuriating, yet at the same time, strangely uplifting. If the country were a book, it would be James Joyces Ulysses; layered, hard to grasp, serially misunderstood, but above all a classic.
H alfway between the US to the north and Latin America to the south, Cuba has long struggled to work out where it fits in. Yet, as a former Spanish colony liberally colored with French, African, American, Jamaican, and indigenous Tano influences, theres no denying the breadth of its historical heri- tage. When Castro pressed the pause button on economic development in the 1960s, he inadvertently saved many endangered traditions. Though the infrastructure has suffered, important historical heirlooms forts, palaces, hotels and colonial towns have survived. Better still, many of them are now being faithfully restored.
Most visitors are surprised to arrive in Havana and find, not some grey communist dystopia, but a wildly exuberant place where music emanates from every doorway and even hardened cynics are ensnared by the intrigue and romance. Rhythms and melodies are ubiquitous in this melting pot of African, European and Caribbean cultures. Witness them at the opera and at the ballet; in the corner bar or through the hypnotic drumming of a Santera cere- mony; with the trombonist practicing his arpeggios on the seawall, or in the rhythmic gait of the people as they saunter along Havanas musical streets.
That Cuba has survived is a miracle in itself. That it can still enthrall travelers from around the globe with its beaches, bays, mountains, rum, music and impossibly verdant landscapes is an even greater achievement. The key lies in the Cubans themselves: survivors and improvisers, poets and dreamers, cynics and sages. It is the people who have kept the country alive as the infrastructure has crumbled; and it is also they who have ensured that Cuba continues to be the fascinating, perplexing, paradoxical nation it is.
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