Cuba

Pinar del Río

With most of its land and coasts devoted to agriculture and fishing Havana also gives an excellent complement to those visitors that run away from the noise of the big city to find refugee in the white sand beaches and the quiet environment of the fields. Only 25 kilometers from the capital, and on the way to the western Pinar del Rio Province, lies, Playa el Salado, with its Cocomar Villa which offers excellent facilities for resting and scuba diving in a beautiful area of coral reefs. The Blue Reef Center, located in this Villa, offers courses of night diving initiation, motto - nautical, catamarans, water bicycle rents and a great deal of activities related with the sea. On the margins of the Ariguanabo River, one of the main rivers of the province, the countryside lovers have an excellent choice in Las Yagrumas Hotel, meanwhile Santa Cruz locality, on the north littoral of Havana, catches every year hundreds of tourists in the charm of its camping sites, where you can be in direct touch with nature. The bases of the construction of some hotel facilities in Jibacoa location, next to the limits with Matanzas province, with an excellent beach and an attractive sight from El Penon that domains the entrance of an inlet of quiet waters and white sand, promises to turn this place into a main destination for European tourists. Agro industrial complexes, the harvest of sugar cane, and the manufacturing of sugar complements the panorama of Havana, where tourism grows because of its vicinity with the capital and under the influence of its green fields, its blue waters and the friendly characters of its inhabitants always ready to offer the best of them for their friends.

Tips

Cigar-makers are kept amused by a lector, who reads to them from a newspaper while they work.