| The history of Varadero has very curious nuances | | | | its immense natural wealth, a plant reservation dating |
| which give it a halo of exoticism. It is said that its fine | | | | many centuries back, when the beaches were still |
| sands knew the presence of pirates and privateers, | | | | completely virgin. Along with the natural bounties of the |
| who had chosen the place as a shelter for their | | | | area, the resort has a full package of excellent cultural |
| chests of jewels and gold doubloons. From that time, a | | | | and recreational programs, quite different from the |
| cave remains, baptized as The Pirate Cave, now a | | | | classic resort programs of casinos and night clubs. In |
| night club showing guns and chests that supposedly | | | | almost every hotel, there are night actitivies with live |
| belonged to the daredevil sailors. However, | | | | music and Cuban dancers, theater plays, circus shows, |
| Varadero´s world fame was given, without possible | | | | and aquatic ballet. Varadero has an amusement park, |
| doubts, for its 14 miles of clear, calm waters and its | | | | and more than 15 open-bar discos that are so lively, |
| fine and white sands. | | | | even those who seem to have two left feet can't help |
| The fame of Varadero began to spread all around the | | | | but dance. |
| world among those who chose the resort as the best | | | | Considered as the main beach destination in Cuba, |
| place to enjoy the beauty and the weather of the | | | | Varadero has been receiving the largest percentage |
| tropics, and even among those who desired to | | | | of tourists on the island, national and foreign, for a very |
| improve thir health. As a resort, Varadero is one of the | | | | long time. Today Canada, France, Italy, Spain and the |
| most complete in the world: it has numerous hotels, | | | | United Kingdom are the main markets sending |
| caves, virgin keys, sea bottoms with more than 40 | | | | travellers to the so called "blue beach", and during the |
| types of corals, fish and turtle diversity, and more than | | | | summer, a great number of Cubans that enjoy the |
| 70 species of mollusks. Varadero offers the visitor | | | | beaches follow suit, trying to take advantage of the |
| yacht trips, horse and motor rides, helicopter flights, | | | | almost 32 degree Celcius that the clear waters may |
| parachuting, scuba diving, and almost all nautical | | | | reach at noon. Even during the major years of the |
| activities that one can imagine. 3 marinas: Chapelin, | | | | economic crisis the Cubans never stopped going, in |
| Puertosol and Gaviota all offer scuba diving trips. | | | | order to fill the streets and parks, being part of that |
| The nature is amazing in Varadero, and it has, among | | | | unique ambiance that takes over in Varadero. |