Reiseblog Kuba

On our first day in Santiago de Cuba, we found Elliot, a cool guide who promised to show us the non-touristy spots the next day—a start wild and full of promise. At sunrise, I wandered alone through Santiago’s streets, raw and curious, before ...

After a hurricane in 2012, the road between Santiago de Cuba and Pilón in southeastern Cuba—especially near Pilón—is still difficult to drive on—a wild and challenging adventure, with collapsed bridges and various rough ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...