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LOT, Cubana<br />
Wylot/Departure: 22.01.2012 (niedziela/Sunday): <strong>Wrocław</strong> 9:00 – Warszawa/<br />
Warsaw 9:50, Warszawa/ Warsaw 12:20 – Toronto 16:10, Toronto 20:15 – Hawana/<br />
Havana 01:55 (poniedziałek/Monday)<br />
Powrót/Return: 10.02.2012 (piątek/Friday)<br />
Hawana/Havana 13:45 – Toronto 19:50, Toronto 22:35 – Warszawa/Warsaw 13:20,<br />
Warszawa/Warsaw 15:35 – <strong>Wrocław</strong> 16:45 (sobota/Saturday)<br />
Cena biletu w obie strony/Price of a return ticket: 3 985 PLN (na/as of 14.11.2011).<br />
Zawiera opłaty lotniskowe, ale nie zawiera opłaty transakcyjnej/Includes airport taxes, but<br />
does not include transaction fees.<br />
LOT, Condor<br />
Wylot/Departure: 22.01.2012 (niedziela/Sunday): <strong>Wrocław</strong> 17:20 – Frankfurt n. M.<br />
19:15, nocleg, Frankfurt n. M. 14:50 – Hawana/Havana 20:20 (poniedziałek/Monday)<br />
Powrót/Return: 13.02.2012 (poniedziałek/Monday)<br />
Hawana/Havana 22:10 – Frankfurt n. M. 14:15, Frankfurt n. M. 20:05 – <strong>Wrocław</strong> 22:00<br />
(wtorek/Tuesday)<br />
Cena biletu w obie strony/Full price of a return ticket: 3 738,39 PLN (na/as of 14.11.2011)<br />
are worth seeing: Castillo del Morro, La Punta<br />
and La Cabana, a white cathedral of the Immaculate<br />
Conception with asymmetrical towers, and<br />
the former palace of the governor. On the other<br />
side of the bay, in the newer part of the capital,<br />
you can parade down the most beautiful promenade<br />
in the world according to Havanians – the<br />
Malecon boulevard that leads to the residential<br />
area of pre-Revolutionary millionaires. You should<br />
also visit the Museum of the Revolution and the<br />
Museum of Rum, and take a look at the Capitol<br />
– a replica of the Congressional headquarters in<br />
Washington. Those who love luxury can stay in<br />
a multi-storey hotel in the Vedado district and take<br />
a peak into the Cuban Moulin Rouge, the Tropicana<br />
cabaret. But spontaneous performances by<br />
street musicians and concerts in fortuitously encountered<br />
clubs will prove to be the truer experience.<br />
Because Havana lives on music – after all,<br />
it is the source of the Buena Vista Social Club.<br />
Trinidad, Cienfuegos and the sugar “business”<br />
Trinidad is famous for its lace. As a symbol of<br />
happiness and prosperity, its inhabitants hang<br />
canary cages at the entrances to buildings, and<br />
15-year-olds in colourful costumes celebrate reaching<br />
adulthood in the streets. Because the railways<br />
didn’t reach the city until 1919 and motorways<br />
not until the 50s, Trinidad’s colourful old town with<br />
colonial buildings (also on the UNESCO list) has<br />
been preserved almost intact. You can still hear<br />
the hoofs of horses pulling carriages on the cobbled<br />
stones straight from nineteenth-century Boston<br />
today. Architectural monuments are concentrated<br />
around the Plaza Mayor with its Baroque cathedral,<br />
monastery and distinctive bell tower, whose<br />
shape is imprinted on one of the Cuban coins. An<br />
interesting place for traveling in the footsteps of the<br />
history of the past 60 years is the National Museum<br />
of Struggle with Bandits, documenting the<br />
period of counter-revolutionary guerrilla fighting in<br />
the nearby Escambray Mountains.<br />
The picturesque valley of the Valle de los Ingenios<br />
stretches near the town, housing the lands of the<br />
former sugar cane plantation, with manager residences,<br />
slave huts, and a bell tower, from which<br />
the growers watched their work. In the nineteenth<br />
century, this was the commercial centre of the<br />
Cuban sugar industry, with a base about 50 km<br />
away in the port of Cienfuegos, known as the<br />
Pearl of the South – another town that appears<br />
on the cultural heritage list. It houses, amongst others,<br />
the Palacio de Valle, which is regarded as<br />
one of the most beautiful buildings in Cuba, “sugar<br />
baron” Tomas Terry’s neoclassical theatre with an<br />
audience hall made of Cuban cedar, the historic<br />
Palacio Municipal town hall and the island’s largest<br />
botanical garden, with 400 species of orchids.<br />
Nature with history in the background<br />
Another entry, though by no means in last place<br />
on the rich “Cuban” UNESCO list, is the Valle<br />
de Viñales – the tobacco valley. It is located in<br />
the province of Pinar del Río, a historic tobaccogrowing<br />
region with mogotes growing out over<br />
the fields – massive rock formations from the<br />
Jurassic period. It is full of unusual caves and<br />
rocky slopes overgrown with vegetation, which<br />
from afar look like falling waterfalls. Thanks to<br />
the mogotes casting shadows over the valley, it<br />
has the ideal conditions for tobacco growing,<br />
which is used for hand-making the world’s most<br />
Czas lokalny w Hawanie/Local time in<br />
Havana: UTC/GMT -5h<br />
Z <strong>Wrocław</strong>ia na Kubę warto się także wybrać<br />
z biurem podróży Neckermann, które organizuje<br />
wczasy i wycieczki objazdowe po wyspie. Biuro<br />
oferuje loty czarterowe z jedną przesiadką do<br />
Hawany, Varadero i Holguinu), atrakcyjne cenowo<br />
hotele oraz doskonałych przewodników i rezydentów.<br />
Warto zapoznać się z zimową ofertą Neckermanna,<br />
zwłaszcza że okres między grudniem i lutym jest<br />
najlepszą porą na podróż w stronę Karaibów.<br />
For booking your flight from <strong>Wrocław</strong> to Cuba, you<br />
should choose the Neckermann travel agency, which<br />
organises holidays and tours around the island.<br />
Their office offers charter flights with one layover<br />
to Havana, Varadero and Holguín, affordable<br />
hotels and excellent guides and residencies. It’s<br />
worth checking out Neckermann’s winter offerings,<br />
especially as the period between December and<br />
February is the best time to travel to the Caribbean.<br />
precious cigars. A few kilometres from the valley<br />
is the massive Mural de la Prehistoria, painted on<br />
a rock. It was made on orders by Fidel Castro,<br />
and illustrates evolution, with the last “great” link<br />
being the man of socialism…<br />
Cuba is colourful, alive and “saturated”. It has the<br />
perfect light for photography enthusiasts – green<br />
and blue lizards in the trees, the intensity of green<br />
bananas, the soft blue sea and the sandy coast.<br />
The water is full of dolphins, coral reefs and lemon<br />
crabs, while on land, there are more than 70<br />
endemic bird species in the national parks. Cars<br />
from the 50s on the roads, often shabby but colourful<br />
towns and houses with roofs reddened by<br />
the sun, the streets sounding with drums playing<br />
salsa rhythms, and old folks with cigars in their<br />
mouths on the stairs and porches. The tourist resorts<br />
of Varadero offer “all-inclusive” stays under<br />
palm trees and cuisine from around the world,<br />
Cuba libres, mojitos and rum in a coconut, and<br />
beyond that – a paltry assortment of shops and<br />
food coupons. You can rent a car or scooter to<br />
take an independent trip around the island, but<br />
watch out for Cuban patrol cars with “eyeball”<br />
radars. You can also take the train or bus, with<br />
the proviso that you buy a ticket at the bus or train<br />
station a few days after making a reservation in<br />
the register… It is still worth it, because any real<br />
traveller will feel the coveted sense of adventure<br />
in Cuba. You might run across an officer who will<br />
“accompany” you on the streets of Havana, but<br />
you can also meet very open, hospitable people,<br />
who remain cheerful despite the difficult living<br />
conditions. Perhaps the sunny, tropical climate,<br />
the beauty of the surrounding nature and the omnipresent<br />
music helps…<br />
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