Luxury Vacations in Cuba

Cuba is a world unto itself, a sultry, seductive time capsule. Start amid the romance and ruin of Havana, its picturesquely decaying streets the backdrop for centuries of political drama.

Get to grips with the nation’s history at the Museum of the Revolution – or with the salsa at La Casona del Son, where you will discover just why Cubans rule the ballroom. A palm-fringed version of paradise waits on Varadero’s powdery sands; old sugar plantations – the sweet mainstay of Cuban agriculture – dot the lush Escambray Mountains; in Viñales, to the west, limestone hills – a magnet for climbers – emerge from the morning mist. Cubans are as warm as the weather, ever ready with a chair, a cigar, a game of dominoes. See the country through their eyes: learn about Cuba-US relations with a former diplomat or meet tobacco farmers as they reap green gold from the fields of Pinar del Río. Cuba will get under your skin, into your system, as delicious and as intoxicating as an ice-cold mojito.