Just outside Pinar del Rio, set admist pine trees and the curious Mogotes (rock formations), Vinales makes for the perfect weekend trip away from Havana. Cycles are cheap to hire and you can be guaranteed an exceedingly pleasant day exploring the tobacco plantations, the dos hermanos and the cuevo de los Indios around Vinales. There are loads of cheap casa particulares and the one we stayed in offered good home-cooked food. The bar on the main street stays open till late and quite often has live music.

The best way to get to Vinales is by bus from Havana, which takes about three hours. Accomodation is easy to find on arrival.

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Want to trylu appreciate Prague? want NOT to be stuck in a toursit trap? Think Troja! this beautiful graden suburb, hoem to the world's most demanding embassies has many beautiful pensions waiting to provide you a base so that you can make the best of both holiday worlds in Prague: (1) with tram, bus and metro services to which you the 12 minites journey to the center every 5 minutes (if you don't want to walk by the dreamy Vltava river, you can make the most of the urban legends in the bustling center, and (2) when you want to wake up in rustic repose and spend a day reflecting on the beautiful things in life, you will find yourself surrounded by rollign vineyards, botanical gardens, one of the world's largest parks, the Vltava river not to mention villas to challenge any by Gandon & Co. Check it out as your next Prague base - you really will find yourself in luxury for a fraction of the price of palces in the centre: CZK800 per night being th eususal (en suite) room rate; Njoy!

www.villatroya.cz www.mapy.cz (type "Trojska 88" in the first seacrh box you see on top).

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