Varadero Things to Do Tips by Oana_bic

Barracuda diving center has a small shop, a bar and a nice restaurant and I would say that the beach tends to be more lively arround this area.

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Phone: http://www.acuc.es/varadero.htm

Varadero is such a paradise for any kind of sports...water ski, beach volleyball, kayaking, cruises along the coastline, seafaris, excursions on board catamarans, sailboats to the nearby Libertad, Blanco, and Romero keys...
as we werent suppose to dive 24 ours after the flight the first day I tried the catamaran for a 2 hours snorkelling trip...lovely!!! 15 CUC (equivalent €15) worths every penny...plenty of nice hungry fish keen to be in my pics:) and biting my fingers for some bread crumbs.

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December is a winter month even for Cuba and we had amidst our last days two of them with a red flag sea, flooded beach and some waves...surely it is still very nice - the water is still somewhere at 25C :)

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You can reach this coral barrier from the beach. There are over 30 species of coral, some quite developed that come up to the surface, interlinking to form channels, passages and caves, the habitat of a peculiar and fascinating fauna.

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This was our second dive excursion with the Barracuda Dive Club from Varadero beach - 2 tank Wreck Dive (Caribe and Neptuno).
Both were shallow dives at 10 and 11 meters respectively, kind of good introduction dives for newly wannabes certified divers.

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Remains of and old German merchant ship sunk in 1943. There are many angel fish few barracudas , groupers, lobsters...One of the speial treats is the greenish yellowish moray eel of up to 2.5 meters long which is fed from the divers hands with a texture completely disgusting....

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Punta Perdiz is a top diving and snorkelling spot, but its just one of those unmarked drives off the main road, with nothing to indicate where you are (maybe there was a small sign, but nothing like a bar or anything).
This site is located in the Bay of Pigs, in the Caribbean Sea and you can swim up to it from the coast. It is one of the most spectacular wall diving sites, since the ecological conditions in the area have favored the development of a typical and exuberant underwater ecosystem which accompanies divers right from the coastline down to the very edge of the wall, at a depth of scarcely 10 meters, then drops off sharply to over 300 meters.

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Cueva de los Peces is a cenote, a naturally occurring hole in the ground, half salt, half fresh water - 70 meters deep. There are hammocks, palm trees, lush vegetation, lizards, birds, crabs, and best of all the water itself - all the fish in the sea in a smaller area.
There's a restaurant where they serve excellent crocodile and lobster dishes..

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There are around 32 diving sites-including one at the Piedras del Norte Cay Underwater Park-between the Bay of Matanzas and the western tip of the Jardines del Rey (Gardens of the King) Archipelago. Three marinas-the Chapelín, Puertosol Dársena de Varadero and Gaviota-offer you the means for scuba diving: appropriate vessels, trained personnel, courses in scuba diving, a hyperbaric chamber and the transportation required for handling emergencies. The water at Varadero is so clear that you can see for 100 feet (30-40 m) under water. The temperature almost never falls below 75.2º F. (24° C.), even in the winter.

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It date back from 1938, with an irregular structure in which stones and wood are predominant. The church, whose local tile roof rests on thick beams, has double doors and windows. The upper front side features a suspended half arch that serves as the bell tower and ends in a cross.

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