The Length of the Island
Jan 2006
1,800 km
1 Month
This was our first cycle-tour in more than 20 years, our first overseas tour, and we’d recently bought our first new bikes in decades. We pedalled westward from Havana through Pinar del Rio province, then took a bus to Baracoa in the southeast. From Baracoa, we crossed the Sierra Maestra over the pass called La Farola to the dry and windy south coast. We worked our way back to Havana across the plains and through central Cuba.
See our Flickr collection and a write-up Margo did as a trip report on a hiking forum. For list of places we stayed see the list of Casas we used .
Resources
Guidebooks
Cuba, Lonely Planet
Bicycling Cuba, Wally and Barbara Smith
Maps
Cuba, International Travel Maps, 1:650,000
Guía de Carreteras, una publicación especial del directorio turistico de Cuba
Web sites
Bicycling Cuba site by authors of guidebook with recommended accommodation.
Award-winning site for Spanish practice
Background
Mi Moto Fidel, by Christopher Baker
(but there are more and better sources than this one)
