Havana & Viñales travel

Every trip to Cuba involves a long stay in Havana. Old Havana is gradually regaining its pastel colours, weathered by time. Centro Habana is noisy, picturesque, and irreverent. It is also the haunt of the best paladares restaurants, where you sometimes dine in the labyrinths of crumbling old mansions. From the departure point of Havana, Vinales, María la Gorda, Cayo Levisa and Varadero offer a threefold perspective on the Cuban countryside and the picture-perfect Caribbean. From Las Terrazas to Pinar del Rio, you cross the Viñales Valley through a succession of villages, fincas farms and casas de tabaco set at the foot of the Mogotes, with the Cuban Médoc – the tobacco-growing land – as a backdrop. At the very end, the “Cayos” are those stretches of land scattered around the main island. Read more