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96 ❯❯ Cuba Area by Area

The Best of the Rest

Cuevas de Bellamar
1
MAP E2 • Carretera de las
Cuevas de Bellamar • (45) 25 3538
• Open 9:30am–5pm Tue–Sun
• Adm • Seven tours daily
These extensive caves have
fascinating dripstone features.
A small museum located here
details the geological processes.
Museo Girón
2
This museum, replete
with gory photographs and bloody The lagoon at Boca de Guamá
uniforms, recalls the Bay of Pigs
Boca de Guamá
invasion (see p19). Displays in clude 6
a Sea Fury plane. MAP F3 • (45) 91 5662 • Adm
Beside Laguna del Tesoro, this
Fiesta Finca Campesina
3 tourist facility has a croco dile farm
and offers boat tours of the lagoon.
MAP F3 • Autopista Nacional,
km 142, Jagüey Grande • (45) 91
Lago Hanabanilla
2045 • Open 9am–5pm • Adm 7
This re-creation of a typical Cuban MAP H3 • Hotel Hanabanilla:
farm has a zoo with crocodiles, a (42) 20 8461
sugarcane press, and buffalo rides. This reservoir is on the Sierra del
Escambray’s northern slopes. The
El Nicho
4 no-frills Hotel Hanabanilla stands
over the western shore.
MAP G3 • 28 miles (45 km)
northwest of Trinidad • (43) 43
Playa Rancho Luna
3351 • Adm 8
Cuba’s most beautiful waterfall MAP G3 • Faro Luna Dive
plummets down the north side Center: (43) 54 8040 • Delfinario: (43)
of the Sierra Escambray into cool, 54 8120 • 8:30am–4:30pm Thu–Tue
turquoise pools. • Adm (extra to swim with dolphins)
This attractive beach has two
tourist hotels, the Faro Luna Dive
Center, and a dolphinarium, where
dolphins and sea lions perform.
Museo de Agroindustria
9
Azucarero Marcelo Salado
MAP H3 • (42) 36 3286 • Open 9am–
4:30pm Mon–Fri, alternate Sat • Adm
Learn about the history of Cuba’s
sugar industry and hop aboard for
Cannons at Castillo de Jagua a ride on one of this museum’s
antique steam trains.
Castillo de Jagua
5 Jardín Botánico Soledad
MAP G3 • Poblado Castillo
MAP G3 • Pepito Tey • (43) 54
de Jagua • (43) 59 6402 • Open 9am– 0
5pm Mon–Sat, 9am–1pm Sun • Adm 5115 • Open 8am–5pm • Adm
This tiny fortress guarding the entrance A botanical garden houses one of
to Cienfuegos Bay still has a working the world’s largest palm collections,
drawbridge across the moat. as well as other exotic plants.
See map on pp92–3
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