Thomas Brauchle

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Cayo Las Brujas and Cayo Santa Maria

After our trip to Cayo Coco, we set up camp in Caibarién for three nights — a cozy spot nestled between beautiful beaches and charming towns like Remedios, wild and inviting. On the first day, we drove out to the nearby islands with the ...
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The Beaches of Cayo Coco in Northern Cuba

After a stop in Morón, we finally headed to the nearby island of Cayo Coco in northern Cuba — a journey wild and exciting, crossing a 20-kilometer causeway built 30–40 years ago at Fidel Castro’s request to boost tourism, a ...
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From the Sierra Maestra to the Beaches of Cayo Coco

After the Sierra Maestra, the beautiful beaches of Cayo Coco were next on our itinerary — a change, wild and inviting. In between lay a long stretch from south to north through a very rural region where sugarcane plantations shape life, a contrast ...
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Tracing Fidel Castro’s Path in the Sierra Maestra

As mentioned in the previous article, the Sierra Maestra, alongside the Viñales Valley, was the most beautiful landscape on our road trip across Cuba — a region, wild and overwhelming, surrounding Cuba’s highest mountain, Pico Turquino, ...
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Journey into the Sierra Maestra to Santo Domingo

The Sierra Maestra was, alongside the Viñales Valley, the most beautiful and impressive landscape we saw in Cuba — a region, wild and majestic, known from the pre-revolution era when Fidel Castro and his followers hid in the jungle, evading ...