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CUBA TRAVEL SECTION - Havana Journal > Individual Journeys
Studying the Spanish language is all about immersion and Spanish courses in Cuba revolve around this very concept. Immerse yourself in the language, spoken in a native context, and achieve the best progress conversing with a local family in a home stay program or just settle for immersing yourself in the vivid blue Caribbean waters of this stunning island!
It’s your pick when it comes to Spanish courses in Cuba!
A study abroad program is a valuable way to gain a lived experience of a language, while discovering all about a new culture at the same time.…
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Cycling Cuba: If its not over 35 degrees, humid, uphill and into a headwind I´m not interested
Met up with the cycling group and we headed out of Havana to get the bikes. Interesting start to the cycling, as a dog started chasing me after 5 minutes. It obviously decided it didn’t like the look of me as it suddenly just went for me. It wasn’t foaming at the mouth but I certainly wasn’t hanging about to see if it just wanted to play ball and I managed to outrun it.
But then after 10 minutes I got a puncture.…
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BY ANDREA GOLLIN | Miami Herald
WALKING TO GUANTANAMO. Richard Fleming. Commons. 351 pages. $27.
With great clarity, Richard Fleming describes the people he meets and the conditions he finds on a walk-about.
First-time author Richard Fleming chose a novel method of fighting depression: He self-medicated by traveling across Cuba. An unusual decision, maybe, but it’s a lucky choice for us, because Fleming has produced a fascinating, wry, vividly detailed and elegantly written account of a trip that no one else is likely to take.
Walking to Guantánamo is the narrative of his trip; The Road to Guantánamo: Images from…
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from Leon Neal an English press photographer (Please visit this link for great photos and links.
Going on holiday to Cuba during the hurricane season may not have been the wisest move but Kirsten and I always enjoy a challenge. As the holiday got closer and the news channels talked of the damage from Hurricane Gustav and the impending impact of Hurricane Ike, we duly packed out flip-flops and headed to Havana.
First of all, Air France to Cuba. Old planes, no in-seat screens for the 9.5 hour flight and tiny seats. Traveling in cattle class on most…
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Number one reason for people going on holidays to Cuba is still its beautiful beaches.
There is perfect coherence among the 200 beaches from which it is worth mentioning the renown Varadero; or the ones from the east of the Capital city, that are a series of sand extensions, above all, Santa Maria del Mar, near the city (20 minutes a ride), which make it easier when you have little time to swim, or for a long Sunday overnight.
But there are many more distinguished ones: Santa Lucia, in the central-eastern province of Camaguey (north); Maria Aguilar in…
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This Advice was issued on Friday, 11 April 2008. We thought it would be interesting to post this since much of the advice would apply to travelers to Cuba from any country. Be sure to visit the original article for links to more information.
Crime in Cuba
We advise you to exercise caution and monitor developments that might affect your safety in Cuba because of the risk of criminal activity. Pay close attention to your personal security and monitor the media for information about possible new safety or security risks.
The incidence of petty and violent crime…
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From Lonely Planet forum:
I read and was told a lot of things about roads and traffic on Cuba. The roads were supposed to be bad and full of potholes, highways are crossed by railways without ramps, there are no road signs. I was told that roads are used by pedestrians, bikes, horses, tractors, old trucks etc. all alike, that people are drying corn on the highway, ...
I was told that where there is significant traffic it is chaotic.
On the good side the traffic was supposed to be light.
All except light traffic turned out to…
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Liz Brown, Canwest News Service
For many Canadians, Cuba is a ray of sunshine during our bleak northern winters. After a morning of slogging through the rain, who wouldn’t dream of lounging on Varadero’s white sands, frosty Cuba Libre in hand, or sipping a mojito in Havana at Ernest Hemingway’s favorite bar, La Bodeguita del Medio.
But travel beyond Varadero’s famous beaches and Hemingway’s haunts and you’ll find a smaller, more laid-back city on the opposite side of the island.
Trinidad, in Sancti Spiritus province, isn’t as well known as other Cuban destinations, but it should be. Located near the…
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Don Townshend peers into Cuba’s prosperous past on a trip through the country’s agricultural heartland.
Sydney Morning Herald
We mill impatiently outside the railway station in Trinidad, central Cuba, glancing at our watches and peering towards the train shed. The train is already 20 minutes late and nowhere in sight. “Some days,” remarked a Cuban tour guide to his group, “the train it cannot come because it is very old.”
Fortunately it isn’t one of those days. Ten minutes later, preceded by cantankerous snorting and a pall of black smoke, veteran locomotive 1432 shuffles out of the train shed like…
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from email notice:
The Norwegian chapter of C.E.U. - Council for European Urbanism - http://www.ceunet.org - invites you to join a one week study tour of three Cuban cities and UNESCO World Heritage Sites; Havana, Cienfuegos and Trinidad, 1 - 8 March 2008.
The tour will be followed by an optional one week charrette in Old Havana and the neighboring town of Casablanca, 9 - 15 March 2008.
STUDY TOUR, 1 - 8 MARCH 2008
Repeating the success of our 2007 event, the one week 2008 Tour will include an introduction to the history of urbanism and architecture in…
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