Should Cuba just be world known for it’s cigars?
The Cohiba is one of the world’s most expensive cigar brands and has many different types, with prices ranging from 30 pounds to 250 pounds per cigar. All around the world people know Cuba for it’s cigar making skills.
However Cuba isn’t just about the cigars that they make this quaint yet booming island has many other cultural gifts to offer us. This island has produced many famaous figures ranging from politicians to actors such as; Fidel Castro and Eva Mendez. Even places like Castillo de Farnes, where Che Guevara and Castro toasted the success of the revolution, these seem to go unnoticed.
Cuba holidays offer us a new niche of tourism. Although we are trying to get away from the fact that Cuba is known for its Cigars, there is a couple of places you can go and roll your own. Places like the Real Fabrica de Tabaco’s Partuga’s in Havana give you the opportunity to make and roll your own cigar, there are other places in Cuba that help you do this as well. Cuba is now becoming one of the main places to go on holiday because the tourism industry is booming, this makes tourism one of Cuba’s biggest money spinners.
The Cuba hotels are getting more and more modern every day. Although they do have some national treasures, the Nacional Hotel has starred in many gangster films with Frank Sinatra and is one of the oldest hotels on the island. It still however has beautiful flooring and is rated 5 stars, with people like Winston Churchill being one of the many famous figures to have stayed there.
Now that they have ferries from Cuba to Jamaica you can enjoy weekend Jamaica holidays as well. Cuba is very famous for it’s cigars, but it does provide the world with a range of cultural diversity and an immense history to boot.
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