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  1. Poet’s Travel Book of Rapa Nui

    Blog: A Traveler's Library - 16 March 2010

    Destination: Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Book: Their Backs to the Sea by Margaret Randall In her journey to Easter Island, the well-traveled Margaret Randall, came to a place more remote than any she had visited or lived in before. The introductory stanzas of Their Backs to the Sea, imagining the arrival of the ancients who carved [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library

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  2. Cuba Video: Habana Vieja

    Blog: GoBackpacking - 13 March 2010

    _ This video of the people going about their daily lives in the streets of old Havana really matches up with what I’ve always imagined in my mind.  Wonderful music too. Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 core lessons, a community forum for asking questions and receiving personalized [...]Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 core lessons, a community forum for asking questions and receiving personalized feedback, plu

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  3. Faces From Around the World: Cuba 003

    Blog: GoBackpacking - 9 March 2010

    I kept an eye on these guys because they had such weathered faces.Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 core lessons, a community forum for asking questions and receiving personalized feedback, plus audio interviews and a blog.

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  4. This is Cuba!

    Blog: velvet escape's blog - 23 February 2010

    I remember stepping out of the airport in Varadero and looking at the palm-tree covered hills and sniffing the faint cigar-scented air. I thought, “wow, I’m here. This is Cuba!”.  It was 1996. The Berlin Wall had fallen less than a decade earlier and with the demise of the Soviet Union, the Cuban economy was [...]

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  5. Faces of Cuba: 005

    Blog: FOGG Odyssey - 21 February 2010

    Basically the only thing he would say is that Cuba is the happiest place in the world and he didn't want to leave it.

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  6. La Casa de La Trova, Santiago de Cuba

    Blog: mock-heroic.net - 14 February 2010

    Video: La Casa de La Trova, Santiago de Cuba from mockheroic on Vimeo. P.S. Sorry for the lousy editing! Am rather new at this! Will get better with practice

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  7. Learn to dance at the Caserón del Tango in Havana, Cuba

    Blog: mock-heroic.net - 14 February 2010

    Video: Caserón del Tango – Habana, Cuba from mockheroic on Vimeo.

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  8. Havana in Pictures

    Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 19 January 2010

    To end my series of Cuba posts, I’m bringing you photos from my brother’s trip to the forbidden island. Aside from being a far better photographer than me, my brother traveled with a Cuban-American friend and his family, so he had even cooler adventures (cooler than wrecking plumbing? I know, it’s hard for me to [...]

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  9. A Day Trip To Cuba’s Beautiful Playa Pilar

    Blog: Have Baby Will Travel - 12 January 2010

    Before I booked I didn’t realize that Cayo Coco and Cayo Guillermo are essentially just hotel strips. No town, no shops, and no Cubans – except, of course, for those working at the resort. There were plenty of excursions, but with a baby in tow, I prefer to do our own thing on our own [...]

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  10. Faces From Around the World: Cuba 002

    Blog: GoBackpacking - 12 January 2010

    You can find many ladies in the old city of Havana sitting around with cigars.Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 core lessons, a community forum for asking questions and receiving personalized feedback, plus audio interviews and a blog.

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  11. There’s No Crackheads in Cuba, and Other Things that Strike the American Traveler as Strange

    Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 7 January 2010

    Hands down, beyond a doubt, Cuba is the most different place I’ve ever traveled to. Sure, I’ve been to non-Western countries; I’ve trekked through remote jungles studded with indigenous villages and spent a night in a water-world town-on-stilts where the night sky erupted with spontaneous flashes of thunderless lightning. But I’ve never been to another place [...]

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  12. Pros & Cons for Backpacking Cuba

    Blog: GoBackpacking - 4 January 2010

    Beautiful beaches with crystal blue water and the purest white sand make it hard not to just sit around all day and drink rum.Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 core lessons, a community forum for asking questions and receiving personalized feedback, plus audio interviews and a blog.

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  13. Livin on a CUC: Independent, Budget Travel in Cuba

    Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 4 January 2010

    Backpackers, lefties and dirty hippies beware: Cuba is not cheap. And despite any romantic revolutionary visions, it’s got tourist traps, just like everywhere else. They’re just filled with Che shirts instead of fanny packs. Several factors might lead one to logically assume Cuba to be a budget-friendly, independent travelers’ paradise: it’s a dirt-poor Latin American country, [...]

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  14. Yankee in a Che Shirt: How To Travel to Cuba Independently and Illegally as an American

    Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 30 December 2009

    Si, se puede! Three years ago, I traveled to Cuba. I didn’t get a visa, didn’t book a tour, didn’t go with a dance troupe or salsa band (though that would have been killer). I did it the way I do everything, independently. Fear mongers, nay sayers and foreign travel agencies would lead you to [...]

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  15. Havana: limitations and luxury in 12 photos.

    Blog: Solo Traveler - 27 December 2009

    Life in Havana certainly has it's limitations but the city also has it's own unique sense of luxury not found many other places. Here's a glimpse into the dichotomy in 12 pics. This is just a summary. To read the entire article, please click on the title above. If you enjoy this blog, please lend your support by forwarding this email to friends. Thanks, Janice

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  16. Photo Essay: Hot Rods on Cuban Streets

    Blog: GoBackpacking - 10 December 2009

    The streets of Cuba are a time machine for the automotive industry.Join Go Backpacking on Facebook for updates, plus exclusive travel photos and videos. Buy your travel insurance from World Nomads (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier).

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  17. Cuba podcast

    Blog: REID ON TRAVEL - 7 December 2009

    Americans can travel freely to any country they choose. Except one. Cuba.The subject came up on Lonely Planet’s new fortnightly travel podcast, done with Public Radio International's The World (where Tom Hall and I put topical news through a travel filter with PRI host Clark Boyd).

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  18. Faces From Around the World: Cuba

    Blog: GoBackpacking - 4 December 2009

    I've traveled enough and am home now. I don't want to travel anymore.Join Go Backpacking on Facebook for updates, plus exclusive travel photos and videos. Buy your travel insurance from World Nomads (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier).

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  19. Can Americans Vacation In Cuba, Legally?

    Blog: GoBackpacking - 2 December 2009

    According to the American government, you can actually travel to Cuba as an American.Join Go Backpacking on Facebook for updates, plus exclusive travel photos and videos. Buy your travel insurance from World Nomads (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier).

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  20. Cycling is Such a Great Idea – But can Everybody Have a Bike

    Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 24 November 2009

    Cycling is such a great utilitarian activity many of us take it for granted. And there are people that have one or two bicycles for each different kind of activity. Many of us are so fortunate, living in an affluent society like Europe or North America, to find so many bicycle stores and other suppliers of bicycles in every neighbourhood. Yet we fail to realize how lucky we are. Many of us simply don’t know how hard it can be for a person living in most parts of the third world to have access to a simple two wheeler.

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  21. Meet the New Travel Blogger

    Blog: GoBackpacking - 25 October 2009

    I’m Matthew and soon I’ll be contributing a regular column to GoBackpacking.  I’m currently planning a 4 month backpacking trip to South-East Asia and my posts will explain what is involved with planning a long term trip, everything from budgeting to visas. In the past of I’ve backpacked through Western Europe and Cuba, two experiences [...]Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier)

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  22. If you were stranded on a Beach...

    Blog: EZGuler - 12 August 2009

    Continuing along with the Top Ten theme, here is another Top Ten list, this time, with photo accompaniment.Top Ten Beaches To Fall In Love With (in order of degrees of love, 1 being the strongest)10) Athens, Greece

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  23. Baracoa – An Unspoiled Colonial Village in Cuba

    Blog: Brilliant Tips Travel Blog - 11 August 2009

    Set on a gorgeous bay and backed by breathtaking mountains in extreme eastern Cuba is Baracoa. Due to its geographic isolation, Baracoa, is still somewhat undiscovered and those who venture to this remote northeastern corner of the island will discover an almost unspoiled colonial village surrounded by secluded beaches and rainforest. Only accessible by sea until the 1960s, travelers can now reach Baracoa by taking a two hour flight from Havana or driving five hours by van from Santiago. The mountains, crystal clear rivers, waterfalls, and beaches all beg to ...

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  24. Video of the Week – The Cuban Diaries

    Blog: GoBackpacking - 11 July 2009

    Watch more Havana videos at tripfilms.com This week, we’re taking a virtual tour of Cuba.  Based on the video, it appears you can comfortably cover the main cities and sights within 3 weeks. Related posts:Video of the Week – Trindade, BrazilVideo of the Week – Skytrain to LhasaVideo Of The Week Related posts:Video of the Week – Trindade, Brazil

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  25. Marching in Havana

    Blog: everthenomad - 8 July 2009

    In winter 2006, I fulfilled a long-awaited dream – I traveled to Cuba.

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