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Located on the best beach in Varadero, Cuba, the All-Inclusive 4- star Sol Palmeras hotel. 35.5 km distance from Varadero airport and 140 km from Havana airport. Guests can make use of fantastic watersports, swim under palms in the cool blue pools or sample a mouthwatering selection of cosine.

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  The 5- star Paradisus Varadero hotel is located the most beautiful Varadero beach. The hotel is at 13 km from the town of Varadero, from city center, 30 km from the airport of Varadero and 144 km from the capital – Havana, Cuba.

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Varadero is a resort town in the province of Matanzas, Cuba, and one of the largest resort areas in the Caribbean. Varadero is also called Playa Azul, meaning “blue beach” in Spanish. Varadero beach—some call it the world’s greatest beach—has long been the pride of Cuba, and a magnet for the rich and famous. Today, a broad range of hotels and resorts on this wide, sandy beach offer affordable vacations to please any pocketbook.

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Old Havana is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the name also refers to one of the municipalities of the city of Havana, Cuba, with the latter’s boundaries extending to the south and west beyond the original city. Although it is today a sprawling metropolis of 2 million inhabitants, its old centre retains an interesting mix of Baroque and neoclassical monuments and a ensemble of private houses with arcades, balconies and internal courtyards. Everywhere you look there is an unique image waiting to be recorded. Declared a World Heritage Site in 1982, La Habana Vieja is one of the oldest settlements in the America’s – full of charming, weather worn buildings and narrow, intriguing roadways. Lots of ancient building are under repair, but unfortunately, money is not enough, so that in many cases these are just superficial external repairs. They won’t last, and every summer storm is causing severe damages to the buildings.

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Cuba shakes with music and, for anyone with an interest in folklore and myth the sound of Cuba is a sound source of information. Vital and exhilarating the beat of the country sweeps you up, stops time and with it, your worries. Tropicana Cabaret is well-known around the World as “A Paradise under the stars”. It was built in 1939, at the ancient grounds of “Villa Mina”, a neighborhood belonging to Marianalo area. From that time it was identified by its great glass arch.

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The 26 natural atolls, which make up the Maldives, contain some 1200 coral islands, infinite sandbanks and reefs that stretch 820 kilometers across the equator from North to South, and 120 kilometers East to West. Covering a total area of 90,000 square kilometers in the Indian Ocean, only 200 of these islands is inhabited, while an additional 90 have been converted into resorts.

One & Only Kanuhura, Maldives, opened in February 2000, is a luxurious five star hotel, offering the highest standard of accommodation, service and culinary experience. Accommodation is in villas either on the island’s coral sand fringe or in a little village on stilts at the end of a wooden pier. Close by are some of the world’s best diving sites, with the outer reef dropping down nearly two thousand metres. Only one third of the island surface has been used for buildings, leaving a feel of spaciousness and tropical slendour. Kanuhura offers a choice of pure relaxation, or for the more sports oriented, an active holiday experience. It is home to the largest state of the art spa in the Maldives, the first disco and an excellent kids club, along with some of the world’s best diving, as the outer reef here drops to 2000m.

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The Havana’s Grand Theatre is the oldest theatre institution on active service in all Latin America. One of Old Havana’s finest buildings, the Grand Theater was built in 1837. It was considered to be one of the finest theaters in the world. During this time the construction of the Capitol, in which the national assembly met and the construction of the Grand Theater was begun, but it became only completed in 1929.

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The Caribbean harbors a jewel in the Island of Cuba. The tropical Island extends 750 miles (roughly the size of Pennsylvania) and is a beautiful mix of mountain ranges and plains. There are over 200 bays and 289 sun drenched beaches to explore. The main ports are located in the provinces of Cienfuegos, Havana, Manzanillo, Mariel, Matanzas, Nuevitas and Santiago de Cuba.
Cuba has no plants or animals that are lethal to humans (Yes, this includes poisonous snakes!) The mountain ranges include the Sierra Maestra to the East, the Cordillera de los Organos to the West, and the Sierra del Escambray in the central region.

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