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Cuba is one of the top travel destinations in the world today, with top tier big-city hotels and luxurious all-inclusive resorts. You can do pretty much everything in Cuba these days, from budget hotels, vacations and packages, to spas, beach weddings, family holidays, dance and Spanish courses, golf, fishing, diving vacations, bird watching tours, or anything else you may have in mind when you think of Cuba.
Cuba is the biggest island in the Caribbean and is located at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico, 144 kilometers south of Florida.
Cuba has about 4,195 smaller keys; the mainland covers a surface of 110,922 square kilometers on a mostly flat territory. Cuba's diverse nature reveals a bounteous variety of plants, animals, virgin islands, caves, mountains, forests, savannas and beaches.
Cuba has more than 300 beaches and an average of more than 330 sunny days per year, as well as virgin beaches on isolated keys, that together with the wonderful weather, refreshing winds and the warm water temperatures (24º - 29° C), makes Cuba a beach lover's paradise. The Caribbean side of Cuba where you can find Cienfuegos, Manzanillo and Santiago de Cuba has beautiful darker sand while the Atlantic side where Holguin, Santa Lucia, Cayo Coco, Cayo Santa Maria and Varadero are located offers white powdery sand. Most of the beaches allow you to walk out quite a distance and still be in beautiful shallow waters.
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People in Cuba are very friendly and will go out of their way to make you feel at home, whatever part of the country you visit. Cuba hotels are safe, and in one trip you can easily combine two destinations in Cuba, or rent a car and drive safely through the island, since the government in Cuba gives top priority to the safety and well being of the more than two million visitors that go to Cuba every year from Canada, Europe and South America.
Cuba was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492. The subsequent conquest and colonization of the country resulted in extermination of the aboriginal inhabitants. Native Africans were brought to Cuba as slaves, giving rise to a racial mixture that defines Cuba's population and culture today.
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Cuba is also a country very rich artistically and creatively. It has made contributions to international culture with important writers, thinkers, dancers, musicians, painters, poets and singers. Crafts in Cuba are quite unique, with outstanding works in leather, vegetable fibers, wood, stone, metal and sea products. Cuba's cultural infrastructure consists of theatres, museums and art galleries, where examples of the national wealth of ages past are exhibited. Cuba's music is sumptuous and the way Cuban culture is best expressed.. The fundamental form of its music is "Son", itself the basis of many other musical styles such as salsa, mambo and that upbeat derivation from the rumba, the cha-cha.
Cuba is an island full of life, history and culture that invites you to have fun. It will be our pleasure to guide you. Enjoy Cuba!