Category: Central Cuba – North

Why the Northern Coast of Central Cuba Is Special

The “Labyrinth” City – Camagüey’s UNESCO-listed historic center was built with a deliberate, tangled street layout creating a unique urban “maze” of hidden plazas and blind alleys found nowhere else in Cuba. It’s fun to meander & explore! Underwater Grandeur – an ecological display of shipwrecks, coral formations and seasonal bull sharks.  Cattle Country & […]

Camagüey The “City of Churches”:

Camagüey is Cuba’s third-largest city and is unlike any other on the island due to its intentional maze-like layout, originally designed to confuse invading pirates. It’s a clean labyrinth best explored on foot or via bici-taxis. As “the city of churches”, it has the highest rate of Catholic churches per capita in Cuba. Also known […]

Santa Lucía: The Diver’s Secret

Located about roughly 2 hours from Camagüey, this is a sleepy little fisherman village with nice beaches, resorts and several great ecological features – one is the colorful sunken shipwrecks and the other – Nuevitas bay that offers a bull shark encounter! The second-largest coral reef in the world sits off the coast of Santa […]