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Table of Contents

List of Maps.What's New in Cuba.1. The Best of Cuba (Eliot Greenspan & Neil E. Schlecht).2. Planning Your Trip to Cuba (Eliot Greenspan).3. Suggested Itineraries.4. Havana (Eliot Greenspan).5. Vinales & Western Cuba (Eliot Greenspan).6. Varadero & Matanzas Province (Eliot Greenspan).7. Trinidad & Central Cuba (Eliot Greenspan & Neil E. Schlecht).8. Camaguey & the Northeastern Coast (Eliot Greenspan & Neil E. Schlecht).9. El Oriente (Eliot Greenspan & Neil E. Schlecht).10. Santiago de Cuba (Eliot Greenspan & Neil E. Schlecht).Appendix A: Cuba in Depth (Eliot Greenspan & Neil E. Schlecht).Appendix B: Useful Spanish Terms & Phrases.Index.

About the Author

Eliot Greenspan is a poet, journalist, and travel writer who took his backpack and typewriter the length of Mesoamerica before settling in Costa Rica in 1992. Since then, he has worked steadily for the Tico Times and other local media. He is also the author of Frommer's Costa Rica and Frommer's Belize, as well as the chapter on Venezuela in Frommer's South America. Neil E. Schlecht is the author and co-author of a dozen travel guides (including Spain For Dummies, Frommer's South America, and Frommer's Peru), as well as articles on art and culture and art catalogue essays, and is also a photographer. He now resides in northwestern Connecticut.