File17-ciego-loc-cub6.dwg Book Initial Mapping Date Road Cuba 6 AndrewS May 2011 Scale All key roads labelled?Hierarchy Hydro ChapterCiego de Avila ProvinceEditor Cxns Date Title Spot colours removed?Hierarchy Symbols Author MC Cxns Date Nthpt Masking in Illustrator done? ? Book Off map Inset/enlargement correct?dest'ns BorderLocator A1 Key none Author Cxns Date Notes Basefile Final Ed Cxns Date KEY FORMAT SETTINGS New References Number of Rows (Lines) Editor Check Date MC Check Date Column Widths and Margins MC/CC Signoff Date ©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd Ciego%033 / pop 422,576 de Ávila province Why Go? Ciego de Ávila ...... 295 For centuries Ciego de Ávila was little more than an over- Morón ............ 299 night stop on Cuba’s arterial east–west highway. Then came Florencia. 302 Cuba’s ambitious post–Special Period tourist project and the resort development of Cayo Coco and Cayo Guillermo, the Cayo Coco ......... 303 bright tropical pearls that had once seduced Hemingway, Cayo Guillermo .... 307 laced with glorious beaches and bedizened with nearly a dozen exclusive tourist resorts. Within 10 years, the boring former drive-by had become a potentially exciting drive-in. Best places to eat Chopped off the western flank of Camagüey province in » r anchón playa 1975, Ciego de Ávila has – in reality – been harboring in- pilar (p308) triguing secrets for over a century. Various non-Spanish im- » l a atarraya (p302) migrants first arrived here in the 19th century from Haiti, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Barbados, bringing » d on Ávila (p297) with them myriad cultural quirks, including cricket in Bara- » r estaurante maité la guá, voodoo in Venezuela, country dancing in Majagua and Qbana (p300) explosive fireworks in Chambas. Thanks to their traditions and cultural ambiguities, they have made Ciego one of the Best places most offbeat provinces in the nation. to Stay » m eliá cayo coco (p305) When to Go The weather is pretty constant in Ciego de Ávila. Take to » a lojamiento Vista al the field on August 1st in Baraguá, where people celebrate parque (p300) Slave Emancipation Day with music, dancing and a game » a lojamiento maité (p300) of cricket. In September there’s Morón’s Aquatic Carnival, » i berostar daiquirí (p307) which kicks off in the channel leading to the Laguna de Leche. Finally in November the citizens of Majagua dance in the streets during the Fiesta de los Bandas Rojo y Azul. Cayo Cayo las ATLANTIC OCEAN Fragoso Brujas Cayo 294 Santa Las Brujas María Bahía Airport Buena Vista Playa Pilar Cayo Guillermo Archipiélago de Caibarién Sabana-Camagüey Cayo Jardines del Coco Parque Rey Airport Máximo Natural Gómez el Bagá El Pueblo Holandés Aguachales de Falla Ganado Santa Gertrudis Game Reserve Cayo Bahía de Judas Jigüey To Santa Chambas Clara (59km) Laguna de Laguna la la Leche Redonda Criadero de Cocodrilos Sancti Spíritus Florencia Province Morón Loma de Cunagua Cabaiguán Tamarindo Máximo Gómez Central Patria Taguasco a Airport O Muerte orón Ceballos M Carreter Jatibonico Majagua de Primero Sancti de Enero Spíritus c Ciego de Ávila C iego arrete Pablo ra Centra Sanguily To Nuevitas Venezuela l (100km) D Gaspar e Ávila Province Baraguá Embarcadero de Júcaro Florida Cayo 0 20 km Ana 0 12 miles María Golfo de Ana María Camagüey Province Jardines de la Caribbean Sea Reina Archipelago Ciego de Ávila province highlights 1 Eat fresh fish for nature reserve at Parque fishing offCayo Guillermo ridiculously cheap prices Natural el Bagá (p303) on (p307) at the Laguna de la Leche Cayo Coco 6 Dig your toes in the sand (p305) 4 Browse through the best at the beach paradise of Playa 2 Dive from a liveaboard in municipal museum in Cuba, Pilar (p306) the almost-virgin waters of the Museo Provincial Simón 7 Escape the resorts and secluded Jardines de la Reina Reyes (p295) in Ciego de Ávila immerse yourself in the rustic archipelago (p307) 5 Follow in the wake of Papa simplicity of the Loma de 3 See how an old airport has Hemingway while deep-sea Cunagua (p302) been made into a successful .