Cabañas de Río San Juan

Las Terrazas


For total seclusion (at night, at least) book one of these 11 strange triangular cabins that perch on stilts above a trimmed lawn 5km south of Las Terrazas community. Your main neighbors are birds and your morning bath – should you desire – is in the natural pools of the adjacent river.


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Nearby Las Terrazas attractions

1. La Plaza

1.9 MILES

In the middle of Las Terrazas village at the top of a large knoll, this mini-mall encompasses a cinema, a cafe, a library and a small ecomuseum that gives…

2. Casa-Museo Polo Montañez

1.91 MILES

The former lakeside house of local musician Polo Montañez, regarded as one of Cuba’s finest-ever folk singers, is now a small museum containing various…

3. Galería de Lester Campa

1.93 MILES

Several well-known Cuban artists are based at Las Terrazas, including Lester Campa, whose work has been exhibited internationally. Pop into his lakeside…

4. Cafetal Buenavista

2.68 MILES

The most moving ruins in Las Terrazas are about 1.5km up the hill from the Puerta las Delicias eastern gate, and accessible by road. Cafetal Buenavista is…

5. Hacienda Unión

3 MILES

About 3.5km west of the Hotel Moka access road, the Hacienda Unión is a partially reconstructed coffee-estate ruin that features a country-style…

6. San Pedro & Santa Catalina

4.29 MILES

These ruins of a 19th-century coffee estate are down a branch road at La Cañada del Infierno (Trail to Hell), midway between the Hotel Moka access road…

7. Salto del Arco Iris

5.54 MILES

The vegetation-rich 'rainbow falls' is a 22m-high cascade on the Arroyo Manantiales. The entrance to the park encompassing it is to the right just before…

8. Orquideario Soroa

5.66 MILES

Tumbling down a landscaped hillside garden next door to Hotel & Villas Soroa is this labor of love built in the late 1940s by Spanish lawyer Tomás Felipe…