Author: Tomas Belcik
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ISBN: 9781973150572
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Languages : en
Pages : 135

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Cycling Cuba Cuba by bicycle is the ideal way to tour the island, and bicycle touring its eastern end offers the best of bike touring on the isle! Cycling 360-degrees around Eastern Cuba Start your trip in Holguin and ride to Gibara, a small sleepy fishing port and a destination of historical interest. It is a pleasant ride and sets the tone of the journey to the east. From Gibara, pedal a quiet highway along the bay, then cut across a remote agricultural back-country. The scenery is idyllic. Past Guardalavaca, you begin steeply uphill, away from the coast. You ride up and down scenic hills and soon the road plunges steeply downhill to the coastal plain and Banes. Riding through agricultural flatland of sugarcane, bananas, and scrubland with roaming cattle, you'll reach Mayar�, another pleasant town. Bicycling to the remote and hurricane-battered Baracoa Cycling the coastal road from Moa to Baracoa, you come across entire hillsides and shoreline flats carpeted in broken and uprooted palms, their trunks carpeting the landscape as if deposited there by design. Riding past river inlets and coves, you enter the remote,hurricane-battered, yet charming outpost of Baracoa, Spain's first colonial capital in Cuba. Traversing the La Farola You soak up Baracoa's charm, then take off to tackle the La Farola road, the highlight of your trip and one of the key reasons why you came cycling Eastern Cuba. Climbing and descending the winding mountain road, you traverse the lush mountains of the east and descend to an arid yet ravishingly beautiful south coast. As you pedal toward Playa Imias, cacti is the only sign of vegetation, but the coastal panorama in either direction is stupendous. Having your fill of the coastal scenery, you begin a scorching hot ascent into the arid interior and skirting the Guantanamo Bay, you arrive in Guantanamo. Another stage brings you back to the ocean at Santiago de Cuba. Then it's back inland. After a stop at the El Cobre sanctuary, Cuba's most sacred pilgrimage shrine, you climb again before you commence a gradual downhill to the plains en route to Bayamo. Following day, an easy ride, your last cycling day in Cuba, brings you back to Holguin. You can celebrate now - you have completed a 360-degree bicycle tour of Eastern Cuba! Cycling Cuba is a part travelogue, part guide In Cycling Cuba, Tomas Belcik, the author of numerous guides to exciting bike adventures around the world, shows you what you're up against bicycle touring Eastern Cuba. An updated October 2017 edition, Cycling Cuba discusses Cuba's dilemma, the issues effecting Americans, including the latest update on the President Trump's reversal of the travel regulations eased by the previous administration. Learn how to plan your trip and lay out your cycling stages. Become familiar with terrain and road conditions. Find out what will your trip cost. Get ideas where to stay. Discover where and what you can eat. Download the author's GPS tracks of the entire trip, your de facto guide showing you the way. Extensive photographic coverage For a more eloquent feel of the bike trip of Eastern Cuba, enjoy an extensive photographic coverage of the author's trip, stage by stage. Is this book for you? If you often spend a way too much time reading about a country or a region you'd like to go bicycle touring, and perhaps routinely over-plan, this guide is for you! If you have heard Cuba is a country that is a pleasure to travel on a bicycle, this guide is for you and gives you all you need to know to get you on your way cycling Cuba!