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Varadero
The Hicacos Peninsula, better known as VARADERO, is Cuba's most important seaside resort.
Its superb 21 km-long white-sand beach is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful in the world, and with good reason!
Thousands of tourists visit Varadero every year to enjoy the calm turquoise waters and warm sunshine of this Caribbean paradise.
But Varadero has much more to offer than just a sublime beach. Even if the destination lacks a little of the authenticity and rich cultural environment found in colonial cities such as Havana or Santiago de Cuba, Varadero still provides a good insight into Cuban culture through its museums, art galleries, cabarets, bars and cafés, concerts, markets and more.
Water sports such as scuba diving, snorkeling, sailing, fishing, catamaran and boat trips, kitesurfing, etc., are of course among the most popular activities.
Nature lovers can enjoy hiking trails, caves and cave paintings, and the flora and fauna of the Varahicacos Ecological Reserve. Varadero also boasts one of only two golf clubs in the country, the other being in Havana. Varadero will also appeal to customers looking for a lively nightlife, with its many bars, discos, cafés and cabarets.
Holguin
The province of Holguin is in southeastern Cuba.
Its beaches and resorts are located along the northern (Atlantic Ocean) side of the province.
These resort areas are served by Holguin's international airport, called Aeropuerto Frank Pais, and the transfer time between the airport and the resorts is around 50-60 minutes (depending on the hotel).
Holguin airport also serves the neighboring province of Las Tunas, and the transfer time to Las Tunas springs (e.g., Playa Covarrubias) is around 2 hours.
This tourist hub boasts many small hotels and guesthouses (casa particular) but is best known for its all-inclusive resorts (3* to 5*) spread across the region's various beaches.
Unlike other Cuban seaside resorts, such as Varadero or the cayos, Holguin has no long beaches stretching for several kilometers in a row.
Instead, you'll find a succession of beaches backed by green hills and separated by bays, rocky escarpments, or waterways. Their length varies from around 250 meters to 1 km.
Cayo Santa Maria
Cayo Santa Maria is an islet approximately 16 km long and 2 km wide, located in the Bahia de Buenavista off the north coast of the province of Villa Clara, Cuba.
Together with its two neighboring islets, Cayo Ensenachos and Cayo Las Brujas, they form the tourist resort "Los Cayos de Villa Clara", also known as "Cayeria del Norte" or simply Cayo Santa Maria (the main island of these cayos).
The "Cayos de Villa Clara" mini archipelago is itself part of a much larger archipelago called "Jardines del Rey" (King's Gardens), in the western part of the latter.
This region is also part of the Buenavista Biosphere Reserve recognized by UNESCO.
Cayo Santa Maria boasts several hotels (all-inclusive), three small shopping centers and, of course, several kilometers of pristine beaches.
The island is uninhabited, and administratively part of the municipality of Caibarien.
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Cayo Coco
Located 60 km from the town of Morón, in the province of Ciego de Ávila, Cayo Coco is the largest island in the Sabana-Camagüey archipelago and Cuba's fourth largest.
It is 36 km long and boasts some 22 km of some of the finest white sand beaches in the country.
Its neighbor, Cayo Guillermo, is smaller (13 km in length) and a little less frequented by tourists, which lends it a certain charm, especially as the road to it is superb.
These two islands form a natural paradise with crystal-clear waters and a thriving tourist industry.
With 22 km of white sand and 370 km2 of partly marshy land, home to mangroves and royal palms, Cayo Coco is a very important seabird reserve.
In the lagoon region close to the coast, pink flamingos are abundant.
The name given to the island comes from another rare species of bird that lives there: the white ibis, which Cubans call coco.
Here, superb emerald beaches and marshy landscapes make for a carefree, relaxing holiday.
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La Havane
LA HAVANE is Cuba's capital and economic center.
This port city is also one of Cuba's fifteen provinces.
The city/province has 2.4 million inhabitants, while the metropolitan area has over 3.7 million, making Havana the largest city in the Caribbean.
The city extends over more than 720 square kilometers, mainly to the west and south of a bay, accessed by a narrow passageway and divided into three ports: Marimelena, Guanabacoa and Atarés.
The Almendares River crosses the city from south to north, flowing into the Florida Strait a few kilometers west of the bay.