Cuba
About ninety miles from the tip of Florida, bathing in the tropics, is the hole in Coca-Cola’s empire and the biggest culture shock in the Caribbean. Welcome to one of histories most determined survivors. Welcome to Cuba.
Touching down in Havana International you’ll barely get past luggage collection before you realize something is different. After hailing yourself a taxi or boarding one of their huge yellow school buses, and hitting the acre wide lane-less highway, you’ll clock what’s odd. There are no adverts. No billboards, no sponsorships, no commercialization at all. And it’s all kind of fantastic. Here is a holiday you are free to enjoy without constantly being sold a familiar commodity, and because of that it is one of the last truly unique holidays in the west.
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