| Information on getting there and getting | | | | Music National Museum Address: Calle |
| around, attractions, culture and history. | | | | Cárcel, Havana Schedule: 9-17; Sundays |
| | | | 8-12; Closed on Mondays Entrance is paid |
| - To get into the tropical atmosphere of Cuba | | | | There are exposed numerous Afro-Cuban musical |
| at its fiftieth. Among the American | | | | instruments, besides the Fernando Ortiz |
| automobiles, the smoky bars of Havana, the | | | | anthropologist's private collection. Disks, |
| effect is assured. - For its fantastic sea. | | | | scores and instruments are sold, also some |
| Cuba offers about six thousand kilometers of | | | | concerts are presented in the museum saloon. |
| splendid Caribbean coast, with beaches and | | | | CUBAN CUISINEThe traditional cuisine in |
| cliffs for all likes. - For the people's | | | | Cuba is excellente and it would be a sin to |
| hospitality, not always interested as it is | | | | get lost looking for other inetrnational |
| wanted to make you believe. The Cubans are | | | | plates, proposed in other local. The Cuban |
| people full of happiness and eager to leave, | | | | culinary art is born from the encounter of |
| people who love to find the foreigner, just | | | | the precolumbian cuisine with the African, |
| to exchange ideas. - To smoke the best | | | | French, Spanish, English, and the Hindu and |
| tobaccos in the world, made by hand with the | | | | indonesa. The result of this is a miracle of |
| leaves of Vuelta Abajo. You can also attend | | | | the balance. There are fruits very often so |
| to the making of the tobacco in a factory or | | | | as (mango, papaya, avocado,) mainly to |
| maybe inside of a big hotel, where there are | | | | accompany salted plates and to form part of |
| exhibited in parties, authenticate | | | | the base of cocktails and drinks.It is used a |
| preparations for the tobacco's artists. | | | | lot the pig meat, lots of chicken, mainly in |
| - To travel through out the town of | | | | the inside of the country, while in the |
| Hemingway, a North American writer that lived | | | | coastal restaurants are intend exquisite sea |
| in the island from the 1939 to the 1961 and | | | | plates: fish, crustaceans cooked in several |
| where he wrote some of his romances. | | | | ways. The national plate is the "ajiaco" a |
| GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Located in the Caribbean | | | | soup with the help of potato, banana, corn, |
| Sea, Cuba, with a longitude of about 1.200 | | | | calf meat, Chicken, and dry meat. Another |
| kms and a surface of 110.860 Km., is the | | | | typical food is the "congri", made with black |
| biggest island in the biggest Antilla. It is | | | | beans and rice cooked all together , |
| at about 200 Km. from the island of Keys and | | | | accompanied by "pig pork cracklings". The |
| it is close to The Mexican peninsula of | | | | "fufú" is on the other hand a banana puree |
| Yucatan in and the island of Hispaniola. More | | | | seasoned with "mojo", a fried lightly of oil |
| than the main island, The Cuban Republic | | | | garlic and cumin. Do not loose teh oportunity |
| gathers all the isles and islands that | | | | to taste the "Creole lobster" that is nothing |
| surround it. Great part of the Cuban coast is | | | | else but a fried lobster with tomato, onions, |
| low and sandy, with numerous bays and areas | | | | peppers, spicy pepper and sour orange juice. |
| of lagoons and paludose. Its interior is of | | | | Among the candies the "boniatillo", made of |
| plains, interrupted by the Sierra de los | | | | sweet potato and sugar and the "coquito |
| Organos to the west, the Sierra del | | | | acaramelado" also "la mala rabia" also made |
| Escambray to the center and the Sierra | | | | of sweet potato sugra cane sirope, cinnamon |
| Maestra to the east. Its population is of | | | | and sweet orange shell. The diffused drink is |
| about 11 million inhabitants. Time Zone: | | | | the coffee, served to the American way, that |
| -6.0 (summer); -6.0 (winter) Duration of the | | | | is to say not few, and the rum is pure that |
| days 13.5 hours (June); minimum 11.0 hours | | | | serve as base to any prepared swig or the |
| (December) WHEN TO GO Period better: | | | | numerous cocktails so as Cuba Libre, the Rum |
| February, March Good period: January, April, | | | | punk or Piña Colada. Cuba also produces an |
| December Worse Period: September, October | | | | excellent beer. The diffused national marks |
| WEATHERThe dry station which is naturally the | | | | are the Mayabe and The Lagarto. FUN |
| best period to go, begins at the end of | | | | SHOPPING Who doesn't know the Cuban rum and |
| October and finishes in April. The rains | | | | tobacco, known for everyone as best in the |
| station is from April to October, but in | | | | world? In the island there are lots of |
| these months precipitations, although are | | | | opportunities to return home with some good |
| abundant always occurs in the half-day and | | | | music, revolutionary souvenir and why not an |
| for a short period. What to take | | | | automobile of the fifty years. |
| Without doubts the bathing suit. And then | | | | |
| summer clothes, shirts and cotton pullouvers, | | | | Tobaccos The tobaccos or cigarettes are of |
| short and long pants. And do not forget | | | | different sizes, they are sold loose or in |
| besides, the shoes for walking in the | | | | elegant wooden boxes. Just to see them makes |
| afternoons, to take also a pair of sandals. | | | | yoy buy them although you are not a smoker, |
| CULTURE/MUSEUMS City Museum Address: | | | | maybe for a beautiful gift. The prices are |
| Plaza de Armas, Havana Schedule: 9.30-18.30 | | | | almost half of the prices in Italy. For |
| Entrance is paid One of the main museums of | | | | example a box with three Montecristo Sigars |
| histoty and culture of the isle. It offers a | | | | N.4 costs at about 10 American dollars. They |
| rich exposition ofartistic testimonies | | | | can be bought in the stores. At Havana in |
| bengining from the colonial period up to | | | | the House of 5a and 16 (5a Ave y 16). In |
| firts years of the republic. Revolution | | | | Santiago in Casa del Tabaco (Ave. Jesus |
| Museum Address: Palacio Presidencial, Calle | | | | Menéndez 730). Pay attention to the |
| Refugio, Havana Schedule: 10-17; Saturday up | | | | conservation of the tobacco. An adequate |
| to 18 Entrance is paid All that is wanted | | | | humidity is needed for them. Craft |
| to know about the myth of the Cuban | | | | Cuban craft reflex the influence of diverse |
| revolution is exposed in this place, in the | | | | cultures, mainly the African. Many objects |
| ex-presidential building that housed as last | | | | are related with the santerÃa, the |
| tenant, the dictator Batista up to | | | | Afro-Cuban religion diffused per excellency |
| 1959,documents, registrations and movies on | | | | in the island. There can be dolls of pieces |
| the revolutionary epic poem. National | | | | and ceramic, masks made of paper maché |
| Museum Address: Calle Trocadero, Havana | | | | and wooden sculptures. Puppets of tamarind |
| Schedule: 10-17; closed Tuesday and Wednesday | | | | seeds are also made. Pretty hats palm |
| Entrance is paid The exhibition is divided | | | | feathers fibers or of knitted coconut. |
| in several sections. The pinacoteca, with | | | | Baskets and bags are also made. In old Havana |
| linens from Spanish, Englishmen, Danish | | | | there is the Craft Palace (Calle Cuba 64). In |
| teachers, among them stand out Velásquez, | | | | Santiago in the Craft House (Cathedral |
| Murillo, Goya and Turner; the Egyptian old | | | | Plaza). Foods The rum is bought |
| art collection, grecian and Roman, considered | | | | obligatorily and the most famous mark is The |
| the most important in Latin America, the | | | | Havana Club in several versions: Liquor, the |
| gallery dedicated to the Cuban painting from | | | | most economic; Carta Blanca 3 years and |
| the XVII century to our days, the ceramic | | | | particularly used for the cocktails. Carta |
| collection, and a space for the contemporary | | | | Oro, 5 years, and the most refined matured |
| exhibitions. Hemingway Museum Address: | | | | during 7 years. The precise goes from 4 to 7 |
| San Francisco de Paula, San Miguel del | | | | American dollars each bottle. For adventurers |
| Padrón, 12 km from Havana Schedule: 9-16; | | | | the most valuable rum in Cuba is the retained |
| Sundays 9-12.30 Entrance is paid Dedicated | | | | Matusalem, product from Santiago de Cuba |
| to the enthusiasts of North American writer | | | | matured during 25 years, it can be around the |
| who lived in this building from 1939 to 1961. | | | | 15 dollars the bottle in Casa del Ron de |
| It was here where Hemingway wrote "Whom sound | | | | Obispo y Bernaza in Old Havana. |
| the bells for" and the "Old man and the sea". | | | | |