Caribbean curiosities

The Caribbean Sea for his history, has a big cultures miscellany due to the influences of the countries that have governed his peoples. Miscellany of Spanish, French, English, African roots there are a very rich set of diversity.

The greeting or in family they do it to the women giving a kiss in the cheek, being surprised when for ambiguity through habit Spaniard two happen.

They are traditional, they give a lot of importance to the family, it is habitual through that the members of one, live in the same street or quarter, they like being close, the closer possible thing to share all the important moments.

The head of the family and the one who takes the decisions is usually the father, she is the person with major hierarchic weight in every family.

The punctuality is not the aspect most taken care by the majority, if you stay with a Mexican at 11 a.m., it is possible that it comes to the meeting to the 11.30 with an ear smile to ear without the most minimal worry, to get angry will not change the situation.

They feel very proud of his homeland and of his flag, they are excited and constant in what they believe.
The Carnival is celebrated in all the corners of the Caribbean Sea, choosing one summer week, they prepare methodically these holidays and they are very important facing the exterior tourism, important source of financing.

It is of custom that who invites, pays and who pays is discreet so if the Caribbean guests see the one who is going to pay, quickly it is they who will want to pay. The tip in the restaurant leaves as regards what has cost the meal, 10 % to itself approximately.

In the birthdays, which celebrates and fulfills years, is invited by the friends and relatives, he just has to enjoy. The gifts that are delivered, are opened in the intimacy, not to show displeasure in case the present does not please and this way to be grateful for it later.

Many peoples feel admiration for the come from the United States, you even can see that the drawings of the TV or the soap operas are heard in English, many collect caps that like to wear them although the day is not sunny, it is a fashionable question.

They are usually of big religious traditions, the Holy Weeks are very important, well-known are in Taxco the penitents' formations that are flagellated and crucify up to bleeding.

The Caribbean woman is flirtatious and feminine, they invest big money quantities in his arrangement and personal care, to the margin of the social scale in which they live.

In general the Caribbean nations are kind, calm and hospitable, delicate, flattering and affectionate. Good hosts and always hanging of pleasing his guests.

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Where to practise golf in the Carib

In practically all the islands, and Caribbean areas, it is possible to practise one of the sports of more heyday at present: the Golf. But especially Rivera Maya and the island of Puerto Rico gain the garland, the last one, considered Borinquen the capital of the golf of the Caribbean Sea.

Nothing better than the good sun, a blue sky, something of breeze, a few spectacular conference and a good match of Golf, in the Caribbean Sea. In Jamaica there are also good hotels with GolfCancún field there can be many other fields and hotels that offer this opportunity, always with a few beautiful conference like Milton or the Club Cancún. In Rivera Maya The Bay is impressive Prince, a spectacular golf course with 27 holes and alone other of 9. in the area of Runaway, a bay where it is possible to lodge the player in a few comfortable and exotic bungalows. In

In Puerto Rico it is where we are going to find more change and quality. It is necessary to bear in mind that Puerto Rico is the associate free state of the United States, and it has always been the place preferred for the Americans lover of the golf, Americans know the quality of the fields, the luxury of his hotels, the language since everybody speaks English, enclosed sound, the serviceability, the offers and bundles that offer themselves the whole North America and especially the quantity of tournaments that exist.

In the whole island there are fields especially in the south area. In the northwest we can find one of the most luxurious and singular fields known in the entire world, the Conqueror in Kulebyaka with meat, it is so spectacular that it turned into a tourist point only to contemplate the conference from the hotel. Gilding of the Sea, with a hotel with the longest swimming pool of the world, where you can take a pineapple strained in the bar inside the water. Incredible Embassy Dorado stood out, with suites luxurious. In the area of the Gilding it is where we find more fields, it is an area known by his golf courses and magnificent hotels. In Ponce one finds of most recommended the Caribbean Coast Golf and Country music Club, a tremendous resort with the Hilton.

The last one possibly most known in the whole America is the paradise for the player of golf, Rio Mar, Roosvelt Roads, Berwind Country, Hyat Dorado Beach, Palms of the Sea.

In Puerto Rico as well as in several of the points of the Caribbean Sea of more luxury, there are even rent houses for the golf. It is a place privileged by his temperature and his logísticia, where everything arises and I surround the player of Golf that apart from practising his favorite sport, has infinity of activities to realize. The resorts count the big one from offers, excursions, free time, visits to the islands, sailing ships, ships, diving, fishing. An endless marvels fan for the sight and the rest, or for the adventure.

The meal in these places is excellent, with an incredible variety since the traveler who moves to this island to play the golf, she knows that quite what surrounds him is of high quality and does not look at the price. It is an Eden with the only one Handicap of having to return to the reality, but it is always possible to return.

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Beach of Tamarind in Costa Rica

I still remember with very much fondness the Beach of Tamarind, in Costa Rica, a very popular destination. There is in Guanacaste, on the north coast of the country, a region that already of for itself is much known for by his flat virgins and isolated. The Guanacaste beaches, practically all those who cover this part of the coast, are the sleep of any tourist that he wants to observe to the marine turtles.

If we go to the south part of Tamarind, across a dirt road, we will come to the Beach of the Lobster, just person in the mouth of a small river. When it lowers the tide, it is impressive how it transforms the beach into a seriue of rocky formations. It is an ideal place to go with your couple, and to contemplate the beautiful evenings.

To the south of the Beach of the Lobster we have the Beach of the Hazelnuts, a teeny-weeny beach, which only fills when the tourists come of not finding place in Tamarind or Beach of the Lobster. We were lucky to know it, and eat in the restaurant of the beach, Lola, where savor the gastronomy of the region. To the being a calmer beach, it is ideal for the lovers of the diving.

More to the south of the Beach of the Hazelnuts, to approximately fifteen minutes on foot, we have Black Beach. Here only there is a hotel occupied by the lovers of the surfing. Anyhow, close there are many houses that can be rented. Also we have another restaurant to prove the local excellences. It is the best place to practise surfing in thirty kilometers that forms the Beach of Tamarind.
Big beach is very close to Tamarind, just person in the north part of the mouth of the river Tamarind. Many tourists usually go to Big Beach in the morning early, or at night, although in car approximately 30 minutes are taken. Perhaps it is where the best hotels of the area are, with The Turtles and Kike's Place. Also you can choose between a few restaurants.

Perhaps the best memory that you will bring to yourselves from Guanacaste his beaches are, and the opportunity to see in them to the nice marine turtles, which swim on the waters. There are night excursions in ship, which you can reserve in any of the hotels of the region. It is worth doing a small additional expense, and contemplating the open sea calmness during the night.

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Places Patrimony of the Humanity in Cuba

It is no wonder, given his size and his rich history, that Cuba is the island of the Caribbean Sea with any more Patrimonies of the Humanity for the UNESCO. The rich heredity of the Spanish colonists and the natural beauty that of as itself has this island do not escape to the praises. The island is provided in whole with nine Patrimonies of the Humanity, and other three that are in waiting.

National park Alejandro de Humboldt

It was declared a Patrimony of the Humanity in 2001. It takes the name of the German scientist Alexander von Humboldt, and lodges plants and animals that can only be in Cuba. It is provided with 274 square kilometers and it is curious but, some of the rocks that can be seen in the park, they are harmful to the vegetation. Nevertheless, the plants do not stop growing.

Archaeological scenery the First Plantations of Coffee

The spurs of Main Saw, in the East of Cuba, are the most ancient remains of existing plantations of coffee in Cuba. They belong a XIXth and XXth centuries, and they were catalogued Patrimony of the Humanity in the year 2000. Nowadays they narrate how this type of cultivation developed in Cuba and in the whole Caribbean Sea.

Historical center of Havana and his fortifications

The capital of Cuba is one of the best examples of baroque architecture and neoclassicist of the world. Founded in 1519, Havana is still preserved by a special ancient delight, which does that the buildings support a testimony of the past. Many of the houses still have his doors of wrought iron, balconies and patios. Havana was designated Patrimony of the Humanity in 1982.

Trinidad and the Vale of the Ingenious ones

From 1988 this place is a Patrimony of the Humanity. Nowadays they continue in foot in Trinidad the buildings of the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries. The most notable are the Palace Brunet and the Palace Stonemason. The vale is, in fact, a succession of another three vales, San Luis, Santa Rosa and Meyer. Many of the sugar bowls are in ruins, but today they still can turn other structures, like the barracks where the slaves were living, and the tower. A place that gives testimony of which the sugar was the product covers with stars in Cuba.

The Castle of San Pedro of the Rock in Santiago de Cuba

This castle, Patrimony of the Humanity from 1997, is one of the best examples of Italian Renaissance architecture and of military engineering in the world.

National park Disembarked of the Granma

Patrimony of the Humanity from 1999, constitutes an example of world importance of the topography kárstica. Important are the Marine Patios of End Cross, with several species of birds, reptiles and proper mammals of Cuba. This there him joins the historical importance of the region and his lighthouse of the XIXth century.

Historical center of Camagüey

Labyrinth talks each other of a city, Patrimony of the Humanity in 2008. It was designed this way pirates defended themselves from the incursions. There can be seen buildings Art Deco, New art and neocolonialistas.

Historical center of Cienfuegos

Founded in 1819, it is a Patrimony of the Humanity from 2005. It has the most beautiful examples of architecture of the XIXth century.

Vale of viñales

This vale is one of the few ones where it is still possible to see the ancient traditional cultivation of the tobacco. Here the time seems to have stopped, and for it it is a Patrimony of the Humanity from 1999.

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It knows the Dominican Republic caves

The Dominican Republic has the most extensive system of caves of the Caribbean Sea. Not only it is entertained to explore these caves, but many of them contain more than thousand ancient years of works of art. Many of these natural and artificial marvels are in national parks. The intrepid tourists you can visit them for your own account, or take some of the holding a permit visits that exist to the caves of the country.

If you stay in Santo Domingo or in his surroundings, to approach up to the park of the city, the Lookout of the East. This park is full of caves, most of which are in fact limestone sewer pipes. The most famous of these caves, and the easiest to visit, is the cave of Three Eyes. It is an enormous cave, full of stalactites and stalagmites. The name comes to him for three enormous lakes that exist in his interior. The park opens every day, and the price of the entry is of scarcely a dollar.

Some archaeologists say that, the caves of the Pomier, to the outskirts of Santo Domingo, close to St Kitts, are like the Egyptian pyramids of the western Indies. More than fifty caves splash the scenery, lodging thousands of rock paintings and hundreds of drawings carved in the rock. Most of these drawings count a men's history, animals and strange monsters, of course gods.

Although they have not been dated, these drawings and paintings belong to to the Indians tainas, that lived here it does thousand years. Today one believes that this place was a sanctum of the tainos, where his ritual ceremonies took place. Part of the adventure of the Pomier, precisely, is to come to the drawings, since it is necessary to climb a little, and to pass for narrow and dark alleys.
The Peninsula of Samaná offers to the tourists a big quantity of caves to explore. Placed in the part North-East of the country, Samaná is a very beautiful tourist area known by his fishermen's villages and his high tide of whales. The National park of the Haitises, in the south area of the peninsula, is covered by a tropical forest, hearth of more than hundred species different from birds and plants.

Also, it lodges three caves with pre-Columbian drawings. The most impressive of all of them is the cave of San Gabriel, his stalactites and stalagmites. They count the local legends, which it was in these caves where the famous pirates of the Caribbean Sea were hiding his treasures.

The cave Line, also in the Park of the Haitises, lodges the remains of one more old godforsaken train, constructed fifty years ago for the sugar-cane transport to the port. The entry to the park has a price for 2,50 dollars.

Although the caves of the Dominican Republic can be explored by our account, we recommend to you to take a holding a permit visit. The holding a permit visits allow us to visit caves that for our account we might not. The lovers of the aquatic sports you can explore the submarine caves doing diving.

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The Carnival of Trinidad and Tobago

To take part in the masked ball, the last one of the big festivals of street, is the reason round what most of the people travel up to the Carnival of Trinidad and Tobago. Nevertheless, behind this holiday of swimsuits and bikinis, there is another series of traditional events that shape the spirit of the carnival. There are traditions that take us to a few centuries behind, I remember of the colonial ancestors of the island.

Our trip to the Carnival of Trinidad and Tobago begins with the holiday of Canboulay, which takes place at the dawn of the Friday morning of carnival. In this traditional event the fire of the sugar-cane is carried out, in addition to religious dances with drums.

Other of the big events of this carnival is the struggle with wooden sticks, a ritual that goes back to the epoch of the slavery. About the fighters there is carried out a ritual dance, which cheers the combat of the fighters up.

Inside the carnival there is celebrated a series of parades and cavalcades, with big chariots and disguises, where there are chosen the King and the Queen of the Carnival. These parades and cavalcades are an authentic explosion of suits of extravagant and creative colors, which enter contest. Artificial fires and other elements can turn during the spectacle.

The steel drum is the official instrument of Trinidad and Tobago, and it turns into one of the big elements of the carnival triniteño. Parades are celebrated by the streets with drums, concerts, cavalcades, etc … Also there are contests in Panorama, a place full of holiday.
The suits of carnival and the disguises usually parody the owners of the plantations of the epoch of the slavery. Personages since Give me Loren, Midnight Robber, in addition to foremen and lodgers are the personages who live together during these carnival days for the streets of Trinidad and Tobago.

Other of the big events of the holiday is Soca Monarch, an international competition opened to any person of the world, and famous for his extravagant theatrical representations. Soca is the sound of the new Caribbean generation, who began in the decade of 1970. This event has been evolving in the last years, fusing with other musical genres, like the reggae, the rythm and blues, pop and the alternative music.

Sunday of carnival is other of the big musical moments of the carnival, in addition to the contest Extempo, a contest of dance where the drums are a fundamental part.

Like véis, the carnival of Trinidad and Tobago is an authentic holiday of music and dance that, if you have the opportunity, you must visit.

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Special: earthquake Haiti

It is the moment to reflect and to do another type of tourism. The need is imminent we have to help with what one could, there is a people dead of fear in the Caribbean Sea to which it is necessary to extract forward.

The problem in Haiti is much bigger than we suppose. Not only it is the pain of thousands of dead persons, of broken families and of alone children. Half of the country has less than 18 years, now there are thousands of orphan children, with famine and without nisiquiera it waters down potabla. The helps come throughout, Spain in that is of the first ones in coming and in being, firemen, civil guard, police officer, rescue, the Red Cross they all are, but there is more.
A request of world adoption has been generated by all rapidity, this can bring many problems, the prudence is necessary since these children can suffer an enormous trauma. Not only that, the mafias now play his air and can destroy many lives, children who have survived a disaster, but who can fall down in a major misfortune.
The tourism would be to go to help, if we could iríramos to raise stones and to help this young people who live through a real hell, anyway there are several ways of helping economically, we are going to spend names where it is possible to realize a donation without any expense.

The Red Cross

Action against the famine

Infantile villages

Unicef

It helps in action

Cooperation assembly for the peace

Caritas

Cesal

Entreculturas

Foundation Proclade

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International solidarity

Doctors without Borders

Doctors of the world

Close hands

Infancy without borders

The money is coming to the island and is the only solution, the government is going to install 400.000 survivors in special camps, needs eaten, waters down and further on quite. The world has a debt to Haiti, it would be necessary to reconstruct the city, light, water, phone and to programme everything necessary so that the country goes out afloat, because if there is left such a which is going to stay, it will be the death.

We have a country for raising, that do not remain children trembling, the governments have the obligation, not only of helping but of watching that the help comes to the one that needs it, who does not get lost for the way it is not even taken in the pocket by the leaders, who in these occasions are crueller than never. We are going to help, even more of what it has already been done and we are going to watch that everything goes so far as where it has to come.

We go to Haiti, go to a different trip, we are going to help, you will see what good we will feel. Bequest your help ….como is.

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The countries most filled with the Caribbean Sea

In the world we live almost 7 billion distributed inhabitants of not uniform form for the whole balloon. The most inhabited country of the world is China, with a population of 1.326 million inhabitants occupying 19,60 % of the world entire population, being the country with less population Vatican City, with scarcely 1000 inhabitants.

A year they are 12 million persons those who visit for tourism the countries of the Caribbean Sea, for his warm climate and his agreeable nations.

Like curiosity, we can speak concerning statistics, that in Cuba, the average of consumption of sugar for inhabitant a year is 90 Kg, with good reason they are so sweet.

The Caribbean Sea (Caribbean Sea) occupies an entire surface of 2.763.800Km2, being his deepest point in the pit of the Cayman Islands of 7.686m. Cristobal Columbus realized the first exploration, year 1492.

The World is constituted by a whole of 228 countries and inside this world ranking, next we facilitate the vacancies that fill the Caribbean countries because of his population.

1. Mexico, with the world position nº 11, is the country of the Caribbean Sea with major population, which is estimated to date of today in 111.841.000, representing a 1,65 % of the world population.
2. Colombia, with the position nº 27, has dear 43.941.000 inhabitants, representing 0.65 % of the world population.
3. Venezuela, with the position nº 42, has dear 27.019.000 inhabitants, representing 0,40 % of the whole of the humanity.
4. Guatemala, with the position nº 66, with an estimation of inhabitants' 13.414.000, representing 0,20 % of the entire population.
5. Cuba with the position nº 73, with an estimation of 11.465.000 inhabitants, representing 0,17 % of the whole.
6. Dominican Republic, with the position nº 80, with 9.722.000 inhabitants, representing 0,13 % of the world population.
7. Haiti, with the position nº 82, with 9.120.000 inhabitants, representing 0.13 % of the world population.
8. Honduras, with the position nº 94, with 7.912.000 inhabitants, representing 0.12 % of the world population.
9. Nicaragua, with the position nº 106, with 5.944.000 inhabitants, representing 0,09 % of the world population.
10. Costa Rica, with the position nº 117, with 4.486.000 inhabitants, representing 0.07 % of the world population.

They are followed for order, with less than 4 million inhabitants, by Panama, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Granada, Dominica and St Kitts of the Snow.

In the Caribbean Sea, one can be almost in a virgin beach, completely only or for the opposite, accompanied by an impressive persons quantity sharing the same air. It is possible to choose as it is the taste.

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The Coquí; fauna of Puerto Rico.

A ranita of scarcely 2 inches, harmonizes the night of the Caribbean Sea. The Coquí is one of these only animals in the planet earth. And it is not because it is a different frog in his aspect, it is part of a big family of hundreds of copies in the whole America, but this small flirtatious frog, SINGS. There are 16 classes of Coquies in the Island of the Delight, but some it is enextinción and on vive the common Coquí.

And what does this singing child have of special? It produces a soft sound and simultaneously powerful that is alike the hiss split into 2 parts the first CO does QUI answers, this CO-QUI is the sound that the males repeat to attract the females, when one sings co-qui, there is always other who answers at certain distance exactly in the same tone, he is slightly musical, the only and really known for any European. The first night that passes in the island, the foreigner has to sit down and listen to a symphony that it had never perceived, it is an enormous hisses cloak saying co-quí and repeating co-quí.

It is like a singing of freedom of the nature of an island without equal, that practically has never been free although it is for election of the people. Borinquen from his discovery was a Spanish province, and transferred to the United States of America in the year 1.898 like war booty for the crown. It happened of being Spain, to be USA. But that to the island came to him more than good, spent the time Luis Muñoz Marín signed one of the most profitable agreements of the history. Puerto Rico was turning into the Associate Free State of the States I joined two. With passport, currency and American rights, but always preserving his flag next to that of USA, with federal and state government simultaneously, and with proper votings and in the senate, from here on the people keeps on voting of democratic form for his status and the party that it governs. When other Antilles almost did not have to eat, Puerto Rico was raising his revenue per cápita, going so far as to be between higher 3 a.m. of America, thanks to the agreements that were done, since the American factories were enjoying subsidies and benefits facing ranch if they were installing his production head offices in the island. That's why in the 70s, when scarcely in Spain we had two television channels and saw her black and white, in this small isle, more than hundred channels were seen to color by cable.

Our ranita singer was begun seeing then overwhelmed by the tremendous boiling of cement houses, another curious fact, the island is one of the points of the world of major overpopulation, that does that the cement triumphs with this fragile animal that he has had to learn to survive in a jungle that is already not so flowery. Nevertheless the tropical climate of the center of the Caribbean Sea does that the vegetation is wild and all the plants survive just as the fauna, which goes forward. These singers survive and they delight with this music in the shape of night cloak, it is something to that he deserves to listen with a Strained Pineapple, or a Mojito.

The male coquí sings to call the female, they put eggs in the plants and procreate continuously, supposedly not even in the nearby island of Santo Domingo, can survive, the ambience and temperature is equal, the vegetation the moisture, it has always been thought that they can only live in Puerto Rico. But for some reason it appeared in the Island of Hawaii, it seems that for this strange custom that have the travelers of taking something of the trip, as Hawaii also is USA, and bearing in mind that inside the American territory earlier it was not registering so much, or at all, some tourist or enclosed biologist took copies that could survive, these children give really imposing jumps and climb and fight perfectly not to stay in captivity, someone managed to see that if they can live in another place, these kidlings ranitas it seems that they can travel to only one I besiege and to be still alive, but out of the island of the Delight do not sing.

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To prepare a trip for Holy Week to the Caribbean Sea

We have spent the Holidays of the Christmas, it is a term of time that happens almost and one does not find out. Company meals, between friends, holidays with the family and the most dear beings, include all the time of the one that gets ready free and back to the nomalidad to the work, the studies and the daily responsibilities, it is necessary to pass pass to think of preparing the following holidays and porqué not, we can consider to do a trip to the Caribbean Sea.

Advance in the arrangements

The trips of long distance it is suitable that they prepare themselves with sufficient time to avoid the contingencies, it is not necessary to find then wild careers if it is possible to organize of a calm form, and this way to tie all the ends so that none remains free.

Holy Week 2010

The Holy Week of this year will fall down the Maundy Thursday in April 1 and the Easter Sunday on April 4 and we can already do the reservations, also it is worth hiring trips that include everything, they will remove us from worries.

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The first thing is to choose the country that we are going to visit, to get in touch with his Embassy will help us to know more about him if it is not vistado in any previous occasion, on the web pages they usually give recommendations as on the page of the State Department to read and to consult on our due trip. Consultra the time that usually does will help us, being able to consult if not the forecasts for doing it with more than ten days of advance, yes seeing the historical one of precipitations, of the sun and temperatures in www.weather.com.
If we can take of holidays from one week until 11 days it is the ideal time to travel to a destination like this one, and if we already begin preparing it, it is possible that we find good trips to very good price.

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