Cuba Travel News

It's the time of year when GTA residents start looking for some winter sun. Here are the top 10 sun destinations searched from Nov.

Santiago de Cuba, Dec 2 Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete laid a wreath at the shrine to Cuban National Hero Jose Marti in Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in Santiago de Cuba.

Woman and Fan , photo by Harold Davis . View this image larger . In a tourist shop selling hand made lace in Trinidad, Cuba I noticed the owner's apartment behind the store.

In a sidebar titled Health without Wealth the Lonely Planet travel guide to Havana gushes about the impressive achievements of the Cuban health care system.

The pace of change in Cuba is speeding up, so visit soon. Lydia Bell offers a guide for new and returning visitors AFP Wheels of time: Havana's stylish old cars often reflect its colonial buildings.

The load was a little lighter this time after my annual visit to the travel agency for the new fall-winter vacation catalogues from Canada's major tour operators.

Havana is not a common tourist destination for Canadians. Though some 700,000 Canadians travel to Cuba each year, most go to the popular resort areas of Varadero, Cayo Coco and Holguin, with maybe a day trip to Havana.

Havana, Nov 11 The boom in the Cuban tourist industry attracts many European travelers, above all British interested in the key resort Jardines del Rey .

Reporting from Havana - My trip to Cuba last summer was a lifetime in the making.

Ida has grown into a hurricane for a second time as it roars over the Caribbean on a path that could take it between Cuba and Mexico's resort-studded Yucatan Peninsula before heading for the southern United States.

Just a few tire rotations from the arid town of Cajobado along the island's eastern most fringes, the road takes a sudden turn north and we're almost immediately forced to gear down.

Several new tour operators, including Canadian WestJet and Finnish Finair, will start bringing clients to eastern Cuba's Holguin tourist resort through the Frank Pas International Airport in the province.

The housemaid in the Hotel Nacional de Cuba arrives promptly, with the requested iron, an extra towel and a beaming smile but not with the requested ironing board.

CANCUN, Mexico - Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Cancun.

"With a lively nightlife, stunning beaches and friendly locals, Varadero is a great getaway in itself," said Hugh Dunleavy , WestJet Executive Vice-President of Strategy and Planning.

Canadians are in luck! Salsa Viva productions, a Vancouver-based salsa dance company has partnered with Martin Travel Agency to offer escorted Salsa vacations in Havana and Varadero, Cuba.

Canada's WestJet airline started operations to Cuba this Sunday, when the first flight of tour operator WestJet Vacations landed at the Juan Gualberto Gomez International Airport in this city.

Havana, Oct 31 Leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro asserted that the Cuban people''s heroic resistance against the cruel US blockade has not been forgotten by an overwhelming majority of the world''s 192 sovereign states.

"Where all cars are taxis, and all women are whores." This raucous response to the frequently posed pre-trip question, "So what does Cuba mean to you?" understandably stood out the most.

Q: I will be retiring in the new year and would like to visit Cuba. One of the interests I have put aside all these years has been photography.