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Curaçao Holidays and Festivals
Visitors can enjoy a variety of sporting events, music festivals, and the best of Caribbean culture throughout the year in Curaçao. Many events incorporate parades, with the most prominent being the...
Curaçao — History and Culture
Atypical for the Caribbean, Curaçao has a rather peculiar history. The English-speaking, Afro-Caribbean island is as sunny and as it is friendly, though it has a distinct Dutch flavor, with its...
Top 10 Cuba travel experiences
Twenty-first century Cuba promises to be like nowhere else you’ve ever visited: economically poor, but culturally rich; visibly mildewed, but architecturally magnificent; infuriating, yet at the...
On the road in Cuba
'The road is life,' wrote seminal American author Jack Kerouac in the 1950s, inadvertently summing up Cuba's post-Special Period transport system in just four words. The ways in which Cubans get...
Cuba's architectural highlights: 'music turned to stone'
If Cuba's soul is hidden in its music, then its architecture – in the words of novelist Alejo Carpentier – is its 'music turned to stone.' Running the gamut of styles from baroque to art deco,...
Procession de San Lázaro (Procession of St Lazarus): a guide to Cuba's bloody pilgrimage
Location: Santuario de San Lázaro, El Rincón, Cuba Date: 17 December Level of participation: 5 – walk, crawl or prostrate yourself if you really must For a pilgrimage worth bloodying...
Top 10 things to do in Trinidad, Cuba
The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Trinidad, Cuba, was built on the back of the 19th-century sugar and slave trade. At its zenith, in 1827, one of the 56 sugar mills in the region harvested the...
Revolutionary trails: Cuba's best hikes
Cuba’s montage of dramatic landscapes, inscribed with mist-cloaked valleys, looming mogote hills and biologically rich reserves, presents tempting possibilities for hiking. Once a heavily...
Ditch the crowds: Cuba’s top five alternative beach stays
Beautiful beaches are as iconic as cocktails in the Caribbean, but in Cuba only a handful of coastal destinations are well known. If crowded resort-lounging in Varadero isn’t your thing, there are...
Exploring Viñales, Cuba's scenic backyard
The Valle de Viñales is a stunning national park blessed by fertile rust-red soil, layered in chartreuse green expanses of tobacco plantations and studded by precipitous limestone buttresses of...