"As long as Fidel is alive..." a Cuba Travel Page by mickybleck

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Car

New Year's Eve 2006/2007

It was a great party - salsa lessons by the owner of the casa particular we stayed in with the neighbours in an old colonial style house in La Habana.

It was a great trip - I loved the old and often rundown buildings and the attitude of (most) people.

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Newspaper Seller

The places I saw were the "typical tourist circuit

La Habana
Vinales
Trinidad
Cienfuegos

and I do not have really any information that exceeds what has already been written here on VT.

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This is not a fish

Scuba diving on Isla de la Juventud

Old Soviet-style rundown hotel with 200 staff for 12 guests at the time (really!!), horrible restaurant decoration, bad food, no potable water available due to organisational matters...
...so quite interesting. I would have missed something about Cuba having stayed in all those perfectly run Casas Particulares on the mainland only.

But the hotel had very nice new bungalows with ocean sunset view, great divemasters, good equipment (Fidel Castro himself is a diver), excellent food during lunch break on the jetty of a lonesome beach and good but in some dive-magazins overrated divesites.