The National Geographic Traveler guidebooks are in tune with the
growing trend toward experiential travel. Each book provides inspiring
photography, insider tips, and expert advice for a more authentic,
enriching experience of the destination. These books serve a readership
of active, discerning travelers, and supply information, historical
context, and cultural interpretation not available online.
Visitors to Cuba discover a sensual, sometimes surreal island country
that embodies everything that is good about the Caribbean and Latin
America. The guide's maps and useful information allows the traveler to
experience many of the colonial legacies that evoke the 1950s such as
Cuban baseball and rum and cigar making. Travel advice and information
has been updated in this edition, written by Christopher P. Baker, an
expert on Central and South America. It covers all of the main cities
and regions of Cuba and helps the visitor discover this Caribbean
island's best-kept secrets. It explores the lively capital city, Havana,
in all of its color and charm as well as the fascination of Trinidad,
Remedios, and other colonial cities. Visitors will discover that even
the rural landscapes have a timeless beauty and that the beaches and
coral reefs are simply breathtaking.