Oct 31st, 2011 at 11:00AM: After several years, Americans are now able to travel to Cuba again under a new program from the U.S. Treasury Department. The aim of the program is to help Americans interact with locals of Cuba through educational exchanges focused on art, culture, music, and more.
As one of a handful of travel operators who have been granted a people-to-people license, Friendly Planet Travel will be ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Friendly Planet Travel begins offering authorized travel to Cuba
Oct 31st, 2011 at 11:00AM: After several years, Americans are now able to travel to Cuba again under a new program from the U.S. Treasury Department. The aim of the program is to help Americans interact with locals of Cuba through educational exchanges focused on art, culture, music, and more.
As one of a handful of travel operators who have been granted a people-to-people license, Friendly Planet Travel will be ...Gadling's favorite destinations for 2011
Dec 7th, 2010 at 10:00AM:
We travel a lot, to destinations both well-known and unfamiliar. In our defense, it is our job to travel like mad, to explore the world and then write about our discoveries.
Though most travel writers find something or other of interest in most places we visit, there are always those personal favorites that rise above the rest. This year, we decided to scribble our favorites down for you. ...Top ten cheap local fast food items worldwide
Dec 2nd, 2010 at 10:30AM: Food is usually a major cost on the road, a significant component of any careful travel budget. Very good, inexpensive food is on offer in most of the world's destinations, no matter how expensive average meals may be. Here are ten delicious fast food items from ten different destinations around the world.
1. Burritos, San Francisco. San Franciscans are passionate about their burritos. It's ...Talking Travel (and Cuba) with award-winning travel journalist Christopher P. Baker
Apr 21st, 2009 at 4:00PM: Christopher Baker is the 2008 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year and has visited Cuba more than 30 times. He's personally met with Fidel Castro, as well as leading members of the Cuban government and is personally acquainted with key figures within Cuba as well as key industry figures outside Cuba. Baker is not only a Cuba fanatic who is intensely interested in Castro's family life and ...Cuba Libre: Trinidad
Apr 18th, 2009 at 6:00PM:
From Havana to Trinidad The 8 hour bus ride to Trinidad was pretty uneventful, as the road is pretty flat and straight. We passed a lot of farm land and occasionally parts of the southern coast. There were just two notable sites along the way: Playa Giron (a.k.a. the Bay of Pigs), which Castro and Kennedy made famous in 1961, and Cienfuegos, where tourists can enjoy a little of the beach and a ...Through the Gadling Lens: taking photographs in caves
Feb 10th, 2009 at 11:00AM: This week, I got a great email from Gadling reader Matthew, about a really exciting upcoming trip: Dear Karen, My friends and I are going on a week long trip to Varadero in Cuba in two weeks. One of the main attractions that I'm looking forward to is the cuevas de bellamar, I'll be taking my Nikon D60 with the stock lens. I'm not sure what settings I should be using to capture that low ambient ...
