Cuba: Off the Beaten Track 0 100 Miles

e# 0 200 km Cuba: Off the Beaten Track 0 100 miles

FLORIDA (USA) GULF OF MEXICO THE BAHAMAS SAGUA LA GRANDE ATLANTIC OCEAN A sleepy former sugar town in rural Villa Clara province that's in the SAN MIGUEL process of reviving its withered early DE LOS BAÑOS 20th-century architecture to SIERRA DEL CHORRILLO Come to this somnolent town to see something approaching its former Reconnoiter Camagüey Province’s the magnificent ruins of an glory. surprise swath of serene upland with abandoned hotel and bathhouse, and a stay in a sumptuous old hacienda, a climb a steep hill marked by the GIBARA BEACH-BAGGING Straits ride on one of Cuba’s finest steeds stations of the cross. of Florida and an excursion to find rare birds or Starting in colorful, off-the-radar rarer-yet petrified trees. Gibara, things only get more wild as you voyage via boat or bumpy track HAVANA #_ Matanzas to desolate beaches with names such #• Sagua la as Playa Blanca or Playa Caletones, Grande Artemisa #• Güines#• #• where there are also cave systems to Colón #• San Miguel #• explore. de los Baños Santa Clara •#Caibarien Pínar del Rio •# #• •# Mayajigua #÷ Golfo de •#Cienfuegos •# Morón Bahía de Batabanó Jobo Rosado Cortés Bahía de Cochinos •# Reserve (Bay of Pigs) •# #Ù #• Sancti Ciego de Ávila Playa las Isla de la Trinidad Tumbas Juventud Spíritus •# Nuevitas

•#Camagüey Playa Golfo de #ÙBlanca Ana María Gibara •# Sierra del Las Tunas •# Chorrillo •#Holguín Moa Santa Cruz del Sur•# •# Golfo de 44 Baracoa Guacanayabo CARIBBEAN SEA •# •# Manzanillo •# Bayamo Guantánamo •# 444 •# Santiago de Cuba CAYMAN ISLANDS 44 PLAYA LAS TUMBAS (UK) Cuba's most isolated and beautiful #_ GEORGE TOWN beach is set at the Isla Grande's western tip encased in the Parque THE SOUTHERN ISLA Nacional Península de Guanahaca- Cave paintings, crocodiles, deserted JOBO ROSADO RESERVE BARACOA TO HOLGUÍN – bibes and a Unesco Biosphere beaches and vast swamps THE BACK ROAD Reserve. This little-explored reserve in characterize the southern half of La northern Sancti Spíritus Province is Ever wondered what Cuba’s most Isla de la Juventud, which is both a accessible from the town of pristine and biodiverse protected military zone and a national JAMAICA Yaguajay. There are paths and area (Parque Nacional Alejandro de park. guided treks led by Ecotur among Humboldt) would look like were it rivers, semi-deciduous forest and juxtaposed with its ugliest industrial unusual karst topography. sight (Moa)? Hit this rarely traversed, pothole-ravaged back road to find CARIBBEAN SEA out.