Playa Varadero — Attraction in Cárdenas

This is a beach from a fairy tale! The sand is white and not too fine. In the first 5-6 kilometers, to the zone where the hotels start, there are plenty of places with public umbrellas. If you want two sunbeds, they will charge you 2 euros or less.

The beach and the seabed are only sand - there is almost nothing else (grass, shells, fish). The color of the sea, at least in the first 150-200 meters from the shore, is turquoise and looks divine!

When it's a weekend or a public holiday, there are a lot of Cubans, but even so it's not crowded (since the beach is both wide and long). There aren't many trash cans, but the trash tractors do a great job.

There are only a few bars on the beach (in the first 5-6 kilometers) and everything seems totally natural and...

This is a beautiful, wide beach with shallow, clear and warm water and clean, soft sand. There are not a lot of amenities here. Some small stores and snack shops are across the street. We paid a small fee to use the bathroom at one of the snack shops there. There was a pushcart on the road selling small but quite good pork sandwiches for $2.00 CUP. I suggest paying in exact change because they tried to give change in the national currency instead of CUP, which is worth only 1/7 of the value of CUP. They argued with me about that, and I borrowed exact change from a friend rather than let them rip me off. These were the only dishonest Cubans I met on my trip. The beach was sparsely occupied, and there was plenty of space to relax...

This is probably one of the most developed beach fronts in #cuba. With that being said, it's not overly developed, at least not yet. You can take a bus from Havana and make it a day trip. I suggest staying a day or two. You can easily get to the beach as it is a few blocks from the main. There was no commercial activity at least on the part where I was. So bring anything you want to snack on and an umbrella. It was all clear blue waters...