The CUBA That They Don't Show You 🇨🇺 Havana 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this Havana walking tour, you will see the Cuba that they don’t show you in 2024. We will explore the areas most tourists rarely visit and also show you the popular tourist zones in the city.
Top Cuba Travel Tips:
1) Can U.S. Citizens travel to Cuba? Yes.
While flying to Cuba for tourist activities remains prohibited by statute, there are 13 other permitted reasons for travel. The main reason most American visitors should choose is: 'Support for the Cuban people'.
2) Do US Citizens require a Visa? Yes
You can easily purchase the visa at a Cuban visa kiosk at your departure airport. The visa costs $50 - $100 depending on the airline. Just arrive at the airport a little earlier to fill out the form and obtain the visa which gives you 60 days in Cuba (with a possible 30-day extension).
Europeans and Canadians can obtain a Cuba Tourist Card which gives you 90 days in Cuba. You can extend your Cuban tourist visa for an additional 90 days, for a total of 180 days.
3) Do you need Health Insurance to visit Cuba? Yes
U.S. Citizens / Green Card holders who fly to Cuba directly via the U.S. are automatically insured because a $25 fee is added to your ticket price. Keep your boarding pass as proof of health insurance and if you do require medical assistance, you present your boarding pass and passport at the hospital in Cuba.
Everyone else (Canada/UK/Germany/Russia etc) can obtain cheap health insurance at Solways Cuba website.
4) Do US Credit and Debit cards work in Cuba? No.
With very few exceptions, U.S. credit and debit cards do not currently work in Cuba. You should bring U.S. dollars to Cuba and exchange them for Cuban Pesos (CUP). Make sure the US bills do not have any marks or tears as these may not be accepted. In addition, you can check the current informal foreign market rate in Cuba on the ELTOQUE website.
European and other debit and credit cards may or may not work in Cuba but you should not rely on this as you will get a very bad exchange rate using your card at the ATM or stores. It is recommended you bring Euros or US dollars.
5) How much cash should I bring? Recommended $50 to $100 a day.
Bring more cash than you will need as it is better to take home the extra dollars you didn't spend than to run out of cash in the middle of your Cuba trip. Many visitors have run out of money in the middle of their trip due to not bringing enough cash.
6) Can I get Internet access on my phone while in Cuba? Yes.
You can purchase a Cuban tourist sim card in advance of your trip and pick it up when you arrive at the airport in Cuba. Visit the SUENA CUBA website to order the SIM card.
7) Do I need a VPN for my trip to Cuba? Yes
Everyone should download a VPN (recommend NordVPN or Express VPN) on both your laptop and mobile phone BEFORE you travel to Cuba. This is because some websites and apps are blocked if you try to access them in Cuba. For example, you cannot book an Airbnb while you are in Cuba without a VPN.
8) How much is a taxi ride from the airport in Havana to the city center? $25
There are taxis outside the airport in Havana into the city and most will charge $25 US dollars. Make sure to ask and confirm the fare.
9) What essential items should i bring with me to Cuba?
Bring all your medication, toiletries (including female hygiene), body spray for mosquitos and sunscreen.
10) Can i stay in a hotel or Airbnb for my trip to Cuba?
Americans can book and stay in an Airbnb in Cuba but are prohibited from staying in certain hotels that are owned entirely or partially by the Cuban government. Choose: 'Support for the Cuban people' when booking your Airbnb. Europeans and everyone else can book both an Airbnb or stay in any hotel you wish.
11) Can I drink tap water? No, Don't do it.
Drink only bottled water and also use to brush your teeth. Also do not consume drinks with ice as they may also have been made from tap water.
12) What should I bring as gifts for the Cuban People?
Over-the-counter medication such as multivitamins, Ibuprofen, Tylenol / paracetamol. Female hygiene products. Bandaids. Personal care products such as deodorant, soap, shampoo, toothbrush and toothpaste. Chocolates. Clothing. Shoes.
00:00 Intro
00:38 The Real Cuba
19:07 The Tourist Zone
#havana #cuba #habana - บันเทิง
Viva Cuba i lived there for three years. Love the music, history, people, beaches, cigars and the lovely women.
PARAÍSO do planeta . Cuba magnífica
Si el comunismo es un sistema económico ineficiente, porque le ponen bloqueos?
Mergi la Napoli sau Paris este aproape la fel.
Cuba are viitor, are spirit.
Thank you for taking your time and sharing this video and letting us see the TRUE Cuba. Their people are always happy and joyful, music at all corners. May God bless them.
You are welcome.
Cubans are the most resourceful, contented people I have ever met
Mil gracias por poder disfrutar de esos bellos paisajes de esa hermosa Habana... saludos desde Chile.
Jus came back from Cuba for the 1st time and I loved it.... Planning a next trip for bday
Great to hear!
26:48 I was in that bar. Had a great time!
Amazing watching. from Japan
Thanks
I like Cuba . Cubans are very friendly to Canadians. From 🇨🇦 but feel guilty when there enjoying how their frozen in time. I do wish they they could be on par with Canada. I REALLY feel sad seeing all those GORGEOUS old buildings crumbling. So much beautiful architect being lost.
So only way to get better is to cave to America. ? 😡
@ Stewarfee U dunno why Canada doesn't just import the whole place as immigrants! We are already.impoting 500,090 a year mostly Turbans anyways so what's another 12,million? Besides our present leader is Cuban anyhow , Castro being Justin Trudeau's Dad! Lol
trust me , it would be a bad idea to be on par with canada, why i say this? well i mean look at canada right now, mass immigration flooding your country...with development comes mass immigration,,,we dont want that in cuba ,,,,cheers
Perfecto todo. The content and information was great. Love for the Cuban government and Cuban people.
Gracias.
Amor pelo governo cubano ? Você não é uma boa pessoa !!!
25:42 ¡Qué mujer tan hermosa!
Wonderful❤
Thank you! Cheers!
Where ?
@@soniasilva1978 Havana
@@soniasilva1978 India
@@HERITAGEWONDER I know the country I’m just asking where is it wonderful 😂
I love Cuba ❤️❤️❤️
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Thanks for showing the pure real situation 🥺👍
You are welcome.
جميل جدا ورائع
To be real, this is way better looking and ran than where I live in the US. Cuba genuinely seems better.
Yet again, I live in the trashy south. Not even the cool part of the south.
I am from the UK and I can tell you many English towns look decayed and neglected.
*早上好，非常棒的视频♥*
Cuba is facing an economic crisis from pandemic period. Its been very tough situation
Looks like Philadelphia in the summertime
There is actually a park of junkies and crackheads, like the zombi ones, btw two, but most people dont film. It is clearly way too gross than Kesington's.
@@anaquintanilla4029 Well, parts of Philadelphia. The only reason I'd go would be to buy COHIBAS, then go home.
Kensington, PA
旧車好きにはたまらん☺
Thank you so much for this beauty! Could I ask you when filmed this video?
Thanks. Filmed end of Feb 2024.
@@TripperToursKeenan, you so far run a very 'tight ship" and you answer people's questions ,so you must n reading all your comments, unlike most vlog producer! I guess cuz the vlog producers don't get paid anything for covering the comments , but it shows some class to do so! It's as if the editing requires so much detail n time consuming that nobody seems to care what happens to the comments! Except for you, Keenan, Good job!
@@chairlesnicol672 Thanks. I always do my best to answer questions.
@@TripperToursWhat Id like to see more of is food handlers wearing those latex gloves when preparing food, I think that's where a lot of problems arise from! Doncha think? The servers too, and sometimes the food handlers handle cash which is laden with germs, so go figure with no gloves! I know it's extra work to change in and out of gloves but it's way more sanitary!
Keenan Lambert are u partners with Aleo ( the girl who likes to express herself a lot) Do u do walking tours together or just your vlogs?@@TripperTours
I love Cuba and most Cubans very much, but the country is bankrupt due to 70 years of Revolutionary mismanagement. Everything is broken or collapsing due to lack of maintenance; food, energy and medicine shortages; a lot of oppression and political prisoners and the dictatorial post-Castro regime mainly invests in empty hotels. The army (Gaesa) owns the hotels, banking, transport, shops, etc. Many Cubans are moving abroad and the country is aging. A tragedy in short!
The patriotic mambisa poetess of Cuba, Dulce María Loynaz (who never bowed to the tyrant Fidel Castro and died with dignity in 1998 at the age of 95 in Cuba) speaks about the destruction of Havana:
"Those who did not see it will never be able to imagine what Havana was like at that time: a small Vienna, a miniature Paris, an extract of Buenos Aires, without the dullness or so many wide and colorless streets.
Because Havana was all that, color, splendor, refinement..."
"Vedado was an essence, a spirit, a being melted into our being, that when we lost it, it was not without feeling that we were already ceasing to be ourselves a little, and even disregarding these subtleties of sensitivity... How to forget that transcript of marbles and gardens, of shady trees and filigree-worked iron fences! And then that smell of basil and rosemary that was its smell and I have never smelled it again.
As I write I realize that I am writing in a vacuum. How to make those who would come later believe that Vedado was a luxury that a city could afford and with the city a small country where there were no mass exoduses, no assaults on embassies, no persecuted people or persecutors, ,,!"
"El Vedado no longer exists, just as there is no such thing as Pompeii or Palmyra. Just as Macchu Picchu does not exist. But these at least owed their destruction to the rolling of centuries or to the tremendous forces of Nature, still imposing and grandiose in their power of annihilation. Carthage itself was devastated by the men who fought its war, foreigners in it.
Instead, our Vedado was buried alive by the stupidity and greed of men born under its same sky."
Thanks for the docu.. its sad that half the buildings are decayed and saf to see what used to be such a vibrant city fall to ruin...
No offense byt if I was offered an all expenses paid trip to Cuba, I wouldnt go....Ive seen nothing that I couldnt find almost anywhere else ... I know the majority of the people are nice but nice people cant entice me to visit a slum...
Next time you do. Another Cuba video, you should also show the “tourist” areas too so your viewers can see the difference between how tourist live and the public
Sounds like you did not watch the whole video.
Whoever wants to learn about Cuba has to go live like the average Cuban on the island, but not for a few months or a few years, but for most of his life. The frivolous frauds who go to Cuba for a little while, naaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!. Congratulations to this channel for reflecting with such realism what ordinary Cubans experience, because that is what those of us who have lived in Cuba have suffered almost all our lives, and for not being ready to repeat Castro's lies to sell a false image from Cuba
My prayers go out to Cuba and Cubans as if ever they experience an earthquake it would be catastrophic
Que pobreza,me da mucha pena el pueblo cubano,gente linda,cálida,amigable y que tengan que soportar al Comunismo empobrecedor .
I went to Cuba 2 years ago and culture was beautiful. Is there a way I can send things. Coming from U.S.A🇺🇸
OMG so many beautiful looking women looking straight down your lenz. Would it be safe arriving with so much cash or are you setting yourself up, can't you use Wise, Apple-Pay or Revolut? Love the idea of a journey to Havana now! Thank's so much.....
It's one of the safest countries with strict penalties for messing with foreigners. I think you still dont grasp what Cuba is like despite watching the video. Wise / Apple-Pay / Revolut dont work. Going to Cuba is like time travel to the past where none of these things existed. There are no grocery stores like in the West, no McDonalds, KFC, Starbucks food delivery apps, no pharmacies with medication, etc etc. Here cash is King and you should bring more than you need so you dont run out.
@@TripperTours But cash must be available from the banks, no? Please forgive my ignorance but the thought of traveling with a months worth of cash at even $100 per day is significant and surely from what you say all would be aware of you situation as you arrive. I get it's a safe country but there's bad and desperation everywhere...
@@TripperTours Okay.. I've now read the show notes and perhaps understand a little better where you're coming from.. I'm a UK/Irish citizen so perhaps things are not quite as strict. Just traveling with cash is an absolute no, no for me 😮💨
@@SuperDiagnostic Yes i understand there is some risk and even Cuba is not as safe as it used to be as there is 'bad and desperate' everywhere. Most people go for one week to 10 days and bringing $1k USD should be enough and not a huge risk. Now if you are visiting for longer like 1 month then you will have more time to do stuff and not in a rush like a 1 week visitor so your budget might come down to $50 or even $30 a day. Cuban banks will not give you cash as far as i am aware but even if you want to visit a bank to tryto get cash, you will be looking at standing in a queue for several hours. f you watch this and my other Cuban videos, you will see long queues outside banks which may or may not have cash....and even if they do, by the time you waited 5 hours and its your turn, the cash might have run out. And you have to try again tomorrow. Same with ATMs in Cuba, many do not have cash or if they do, you need to stand in long queues and depending on who you bank with and the ATM, you have or may not get any cash. Now even if you are successful in getting cash from the bank or an ATM, you will get the official government rate currently 1 USD = 24 Cuban peso. The unofficial black market (cash is king) rate is currently 1 USD = 380 Cuban peso! That is a huge difference in your spending power with bringing cash.
@@SuperDiagnostic I am from the UK too and i bring all the cash i need. Of course i have my bank cards with me for emergency only but routinely going to an ATM and getting only 6% and losing 94% of the money i receive by not bringing cash is almost criminal to me.
If you want to watch, to record in video and show us the paradise search that terrible place in California or somewhere you find all the American dreams still fading on away year after year without any back to come the same in the past when you were able to export illusions to all the world to buy no matter we wanted to buy or not.
What are you rambling about?
@@sammyoyola2042He's prolly tryna tell ya, America is just as ," f...ked" up in offering the American dream as Cuba! You noticed maybe that the average life span of Cuban was 78, which is higher than US make by a bit! So in a way life is Cuba is similar to living under Biden's watch! Stock markets usually down, people don't have real jobs anymore! Remember Cuba is only 90/ 100 miles away, so on a good day one can smell the funny tasting chicken from Florida! Lol
OMG!!! Too sad…
Cuba before 1959 had a GDP greater than that of Spain and Italy, which is why it was compared with developed countries, never with the countries of the geographical region where it is located. Today, as an attempt at consolation, even the Castro henchmen themselves compare it with Haiti, with the Brazilian favelas and in more desperate cases, with African countries. Cuba under Castro regressed to the economic levels of the early 20th century, when it had just liberated itself from Spain. And the Cuban government paid its debts before 1959, now it doesn't even pay them, the Castro tyranny is considered a bad payer, that's why no one wants to give it credit, we already saw it in the trial in London. And all this, despite the fact that the tyrant Fidel Castro turned Cuba into a Soviet neocolony that allowed him to receive a multimillion-dollar subsidy that he squandered on his international messianic obsessions to satisfy his excessive egotism, promoting organizing and financing guerrillas and subversive groups in Latin America and participating in wars in distant countries such as Africa. The progress under Batista is not only in figures: it is in his own works. You just have to stand in the Plaza Cívica (called today "Plaza de la Revolución") and look at all the buildings around it (including the Plaza itself), or the multiple "partitions" that arose as a result of the accelerated growth of the middle class (at tyrant Fidel Castro only needed five years to disappear that middle class in Cuba and impoverish it). Look in Cuba for great works built during almost 65 years of Castro tyranny and you will not find any, because the few things he built (except hotels for foreigners) were of poor quality and some are in a dilapidated state. Not to mention that with Batista the Cubans enjoyed more freedoms than under the tyrant Fidel Castro, that he has been the greatest repressor of the freedoms of the Cubans that postcolonial Cuba will remember.
Yo lo que me pregunto es, si hay tanta hambre y carestia, porque hay tanta basura? Que es lo que botan tanto?
Son desechos humanos, pampers, used toilet paper, etc., por parte de la gente pobre. La gente de dinero que pasan por la zona son las que botan desechos de comida rápida, envolturas de bebidas alcohólicas y ropa.
In Havana, despite the ugly panorama and the bad smells, people who pass through the stench react normally. Dirt has become so familiar in Havana that what is surprising are those blocks where cleanliness, painted facades and order mark the difference with the rest of the city. People seem to have become accustomed to living with filth due to the inability of the authorities to collect it in time. TH-camrs insist on showing images of such a disgusting capital. Garbage is also the way of survival for many. The popularly called “divers” (people who look for things in the garbage, as a way of life) look in the containers for raw materials to sell, empty perfume bottles to refill and scam some unsuspecting client, food waste to feed the pigs. , pieces of appliances that can be used to repair others and even clothing that helps protect you from the breeze and humidity during the early mornings. Where some see waste, others find their livelihood. Garbage in Havana is also one of the most obvious ways to measure the state of the Cuban capital's economy. During the crisis of the 90s, landfills only had what could no longer be used for almost anything. Not even pieces of old wood made it into the garbage bins because people used them to light fires for cooking. Finding food scraps in the trash was a miracle in that Special Period, and it is something that is making a comeback in the 1920s of the 21st century.
Hola Como estas saludos
Saludos.
@@TripperTours¿Desde que estado de EEUU se puede viajar a Cuba?
@@sammyoyola2042 Hay vuelos directos sin escalas a La Habana desde Miami, Charlotte, Nueva York, Newark, Atlanta, Houston, Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Orlando y Boston.
@@TripperTours Gracias, veo que ninguno desde Puerto Rico.
I wonder if you (or others reading this) know if a Cuban born person (who is now a U.S. citizen) and who left Cuba AFTER 1959 is allowed travel to Cuba. I was told that only those who left Cuba before 1959 are allowed into the island. Something about the Cuban government feels that if you left because of the revolutionary government, you cannot be allowed back in. Don't know if it's true.
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tem que endurecer ........
Why people keep repeating the nonsense that housing is free in Cuba!? It is NOT! You're etheir the owner of the house you paid for decades ago (or your parents) or, if it's a relatively new house (which is not widespread), you pay every month for years certain amount until fully paid.
There's no mortage options like in the West, but that doesn't mean housing is free.
18:05 OMG!!! Cutting meat on this board, with lots of flies and no refrigeration at all. That's way too much for a European stomach.
It doesn’t even look that bad. It looks like a poor European country. It’s pretty clean and has great architecture
Cubans receive free housing is like saying prisoners receive free housing
That’s one way to look at it!
Hell yeah, not only one way to look at it, but the realest one.
But the citizens seem happy and don't show any distress.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😅
Tourists, if you visit Cuba remember not to show your smartphone in public, people get stabbed and then robbed. Yikes 😬
Incorrect.
@@TripperTours I know you work for you communist masters, SHAME ON YOU
@guilex Just about everyone gotta acell phone no matter how poor, so why not show yours, LOL !!! You show me yours, n I'll show you mine ! Lol
@@chairlesnicol672 “Not all smartphones are created equal” Steve Jobs JK
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Why do they keep showing the trash in detail? All it takes is once. I can't continue watching the video because it's dirty. So I canceled my subscription. And I pressed the dislike button.
I’m showing the reality of the real Cuba as per the video title! You can always skip to the tourist zone part as the video is time stamped with a progress bar.
Can you show me something else thank you
😂🎉😢😮😅😊
It bothers me that all those tourists dollars go to fund the Castro gov. What few dollars that trickle down to the poor are peanuts. It just pisses me off that these people could be living large if companies were allowed to build resorts to cater to the tourist traffic.
There is no Castro government
Prisoners only which they had free housing.!
Esta es tu ciudad pobre habana
Cuban government not pay the bill, countrys forget cubann deuda externa.and Cuba no prosperó..
Proud and happy people even after 50 years of US sanctions.............🎉😅
The only sanctions are those that the Castro genocidal narco-dictatorship has towards its own people. Enough of the lies. Enough!!
They could sell to China, but they dont do cause they'd rather control people by starving, thats why.
And don’t pay to no one their debts.@@anaquintanilla4029
Dios mío, que desastre de país, cuánta suciedad,cuánta basura, cuanto abandono. Me impresiona ver la dejadez que hay y eso que es la capital. Que hacen los dirigentes de ese país, seguramente ellos a chupar del bote. el pueblo cubano no se merece vivir en ésas condiciones. ❤
1.7. jo un turista 😂
Sigo sin entender el tema basura?
Por todo es una Basura con el Comunismo.
O ditador dê Cuba ele nao mostra à verdadeira Cuba quê e essa ai
y brasil la capital del homicidio en todas las americas, en eso se lleva el premio, felicidades, somos pobres pero contento
This video is a montage of sections from previous videos previous, something new please!!!🙄
The content is unique and filmed in a different month of this year to the previous videos.
La de los turistas es una cuba
La de los ciudadanos es otra
La de los del gobierno está muy buena
What's the rat situation like with all that garbage lying around?!
I hardly see any rats for whatever reason.
@@TripperTours Even for rats it's too dirty.
Too many cats, unfed.
they sell even the rats
Time stamp??
@@MUISHAGGY572I think for the right money , u can even get a mouse on the bread smothered in sauce from street vendors fresh from the market!
Kind of useless when you rarely say what the street location is.
I am a visitor and have no idea of many of the street locations and got lost a few times while walking around filming. I am not a local who lives in Cuba.
I’m baffled if Cuba had 2.5 million visitors why is not the revenue from tourism going back to the Cuban people where and who is receiving that money politicians don’t take a walk or drive where Cubans are living in complete squalor? I mean where there is garbage there will be rats , etc and diseases. I mean I am amazed to not see dogs rats or cats with the garbage
Ok I have seen enough trash
yea yea happi cuba and all that, let's just say again the castro bro's a free cuba from US tyranny and a communist way was and still is a disaster. less singing and dancing and more getting with world my advice.
Don’t go to Cuba 🇨🇺. I have a lot of bad experiences there. The worst customer service I ever had in my whole life. 👎
No sé para qué le ponen estos títulos de, lo que no te muestran, lo que nadie dice, lo que no quieren que veas y esas estupideces, en TH-cam hay miles y miles de videos sobre la vida en Cuba todo el planeta tierra sabe cómo esta el pais.