Western Cuba
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1. Jardín Botanico Orquideario Soroa
GardenCovering 35,000 square meters, this hillside botanical garden is a wild tangle of flowering vines, fragrant gingers, waist-high begonias and...Read More
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2. Museo Ciencias Naturales
Historic HomeInstalled in a fantastical Moorish palace, dripping with carved stone griffins, this museum is even more fascinating for its outlandish architecture...Read More
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3. Museo Farmaceútico Triolet
Museum/GalleryThe city's main, not-to-be-missed sight is this perfectly preserved, 19th-century natural-medicine pharmacy. Established in 1882 by Ernesto...Read More
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4. Museo Oscar María de Rojas
Museum/GalleryThis beautifully restored museum, housed in an elegant, colonnaded 1918 building, is worth a visit for its wide-ranging exhibits on everything...Read More
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5. Parque Nacional Ciénaga de Zapata
Nature Preserve/Wildlife RefugeBird-watchers from all over the world flock to this national park in hopes of feasting their eyes on some 190 bird species, including 21 endemic...Read More
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6. Playa Varadero
BeachVisitors know it as Varadero, but locals call this 20-km (12 ½-mile) stretch of white-sand Caribbean beach Playa Azul, for the intense azure...Read More
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7. Caleta Buena
Body Of Water/WaterfallJust east of Playa Girón, the sea has formed a series of natural pools by entering through underwater caves, creating the largest flooded cavern...Read More
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8. Catedral de San Carlos
Religious Building/Site/ShrineRecently restored on the outside, this massive, Neoclassical church with two ornate towers is famous for its interior frescoes. In front of...Read More
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9. Criadero de Cocodrilos
Farm/RanchFrom the safety of wooden walkways, you can observe some 3,000 crocodiles in various stages of development at this breeding center-cum-tourist...Read More
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10. Cueva de Ambrosio
RuinsDiscovered in the 1960s, this cave contains aboriginal drawings of concentric circles and other pre-Columbian symbols, thought to be more than...Read More
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11. Cueva del Indio
CaveThis spectacular and massive cave is named for the aboriginal Guanahatabey. Dripping with limestone formations, it's spooky enough to thrill...Read More
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12. Delfinario Varadero
Zoo/AquariumFor a pleasant break from the beach, you can watch a troupe of acrobatic dolphins show off their tricks in a 35-minute show (CUC$20) and take...Read More
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13. El Palenque/Cueva de José Miguel
CaveThe dimly lighted, rough 140-meter (462-foot) tunnel piercing this mogote opens onto an eerily quiet open space ringed by high limestone rocks...Read More
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14. Fábrica de Bebidas Guayabita
FactoryOn a narrow side street south of the city center, this small distillery occupies a former rum factory. Just about every process is done by hand...Read More
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15. Fábrica de Tabacos Francisco Donatien
FactoryThis traditional cigar factory, in a stately, colonnaded building that was the city jail until 1961, offers a more intimate visit than some...Read More
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16. Finca Fiesta Campesina
Zoo/AquariumAt this casual farm-cum-zoo visitors can see two of Cuba's distinctive animals: the manjuarí, a primitive water creature with an alligator...Read More
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17. Hershey Railway
Transportation Site (Airport, Bus, Ferry, Train)Once the property of the Hershey chocolate barons, Cuba's first electric railway was built in 1917 to haul sugarcane and workers to the sugar...Read More
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18. Iglesia de San Pedro Apóstol
Religious Building/Site/ShrineThis architecturally eclectic church was built in 1870 by architect Daniel Delaglio, who also designed the city's emblematic Teatro Sauto. The...Read More
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19. Jardín Botanico de las Hermanas Caridad y Carmen Miranda
GardenThis slightly oddball, 100-year-old garden surrounds a farmhouse on the northern edge of town. It was started by a man, whose daughters both...Read More
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20. La Cueva de los Peces
Body Of Water/WaterfallSouth of Playa Larga, on the east side of the Bay of Pigs, lies this natural aquarium in a 61-meter-deep (201-foot-deep) cenote (a flooded...Read More
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