Travel to Cuba

ABOVE: There is only one The Tropicana - and it's in La Habana.

Many visitors to Belize take side trips to neighbouring Mexico - and Cuba. Belize enjoys friendly relations with ALL countries and thus it is easy to travel to Cuba from here. Cuba sends medical teams to do volunteer work in rural Belize and some Belizeans study medicine and other careers there, making travel to Cuba relative easy.

Noted American writer and Historian Emory King (who has lived most of his life in Belize, decided to travel Cuba and wrote the following after his visit to there:

I have just returned from Cuba. I suppose I was more impressed by what I did not see rather than what I saw, although what I saw was impressive.

I spent four hours riding around Havana. I did not see any soldiers. None. The only policemen I saw were traffic officers. I did not see any pictures of Fidel or any propaganda signs. I did not see any long lines of people waiting to get food.

Perhaps they were there but I didn't see them. For a police state with such bad press on US television, I was surprised.

On the other hand, I didn't see any fat people. But no one appeared to be starving either. I did not see many automobiles. A '46 Buick and a '51 Cadillac, shining like new pennies, attracted my attention.

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