If you’re one of those dry-behind-the-ears travelers, aware of several tourist destinations, but eager to find new knowledge sources in nature and make your soul broader, look for what Cuba’s Ecological Tourism has to offer.

If you’re one of those dry-behind-the-ears travelers, aware of several tourist destinations, but eager to find new knowledge sources in nature and make your soul broader, look for what Cuba’s Ecological Tourism has to offer. Nature gifted this island with a privileged climate, flora and wildlife, as well as the features of its own soils and surrounding seas. Check your tastes and preferences, define them, and match them with the many choices the greatest of the Antilles islands has to offer in a tourism devoted to enjoying, watching and doing research on nature. The National Botanical Garden and the Japanese Garden in Havana and Cienfuegos’ Botanical Garden are two cases in point where you could admire unique, one-and-only masterpieces put together on a natural basis. For cave buffs, Cuba offers a world of stalactites and stalagmites a thousand words aren’t good enough to describe. The Martín Infierno Cave in the Escambray, showing off a 60-meter-high stalagmite, or the San Ambrosio and Saturno caves in Matanzas are two must-see options. And the Bellamar Caves, in this same province. Over 200 species of mammals, birds, fish, amphibious and reptiles live in the Zapata Peninsula, a luring land strip featuring the Caribbean’s largest wetland. Matanzas’ Yumurí Valley and Viñales Valley in Pinar del Río, stand for two gems of the Cuban Nature. The Soroa’s Orchid Patch, also in the very Pinar del Río province. Other attractive choices: Brizes Jibacoa Hotel, and Josone Park in Varadero.

TURNAT 2001 From November 5 to 9, 2001, Cuba’s Cienfuegos province will host the TURNAT 2001 meeting under the slogan: For a Sustainable Development of Nature’s Tourism." Dr. Norman Medina Pérez, Development Director of Cuba’s Ministry of Tourism, said to us in an interview that the dawn of this idea dates back to the 1999’s International Seminar held in Pinar del Río between Cuba’s Ministry of Tourism and the World Tourism Organization. These TURNAT events are held annually in different locations of the country this time around Cienfuegos’ Villa Guajimico will be hosting the eventæhave to do with a worldwide evolution heading toward a more diversified tourism, offering new options and enriched by both the nature and the culture.