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Cuba Travel Guide

August 2, 2014 By James Clark

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Destination Guides

Havana

Travel Guides

Underground Cuba Travel Guide – Tips about traveling the real Cuba.

Granma – Tourism section of Granma, which is the “Official Voice of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee.”

Blogs

Translating Cuba – English translations of Cubans writing from the island.

Blog Posts

Things to do in Cuba – myadventuresacrosstheworld.com.

Castro’s hipster apologists want to keep Cuba ‘authentically’ poor – thedailybeast.com.

Tours

G Adventures – Venture outside those all-inclusive hotel walls and discover the real Cuba today with G Adventures.

Books


The History of Cuba in 50 EventsThe History of Cuba in 50 Events by Henry Freeman.

Cuba played a significant role in the growth of the New World, and throughout its history has been a part of major world events that have taken place around it. This book is designed to familiarize readers with a broad overview of Cuban history and the context that made that development possible.


The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, PoliticsThe Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Aviva Chomsky.

The Cuba Reader presents more than one hundred selections about Cuba’s history, culture, and politics. Beginning with the first written account of the island, penned by Christopher Columbus in 1492, the selections assembled here track Cuban history from the colonial period through the ascendancy of Fidel Castro to the present.


The History of Cuba, vol. 1The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson.

A history of Cuba written in the 1920’s and now republished thanks to forgottenbooks.com. This one is purely for readers doing a deep-dive of Cuban history before the revolution.

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James Clark is the founder of Nomadic Notes. He has been a digital nomad since 2003, and Nomadic Notes features trip reports, train travel articles, and where to stay guides. He writes about transport and urban development at Future Southeast Asia. Subscribe to the weekly travel newsletter.

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