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General Information of Cuba and some specific informations of Santiago

Documents: It's necessary the Passport in validity course and the Visa (it's valid for 30 days but you can ask for other 30/60 days directly in Cuba). Put in house the Passport, the Visa, the credit card and the flights tickets. You can walk in the city with a photocopy of the Passaport.

Language: Spanish. Also English is use.

Current: 110 V. All the 220V devices will work without problems with less power. Please buy an adapter for the western thorns, It's not always present in all the houses.

Security : Cuba is one of the surer nations of the world inasmuch as the tourism is the first voice of the Cuban economy. It's present much policeman above in all the zones more visited from the tourists. For the other zones please use the same attentions that you use in your city.

Communications: Take the mobile phone in order to send and receive short message while I advice you to use it in order to make and to receive telephone calls inasmuch as the rates are very expensive. It's not necessary a Trial Band phone. Remember, you have to to use the prefix 0053 before the number. In order to call to your country you can buy pre-pay cards in Peso Convertible to use in the pubblic telephone.

Money : Please don't change the money in the street!

Credit cards : You can use the VISA or MASTERCARD to bring money. The American Express doesn't work.

Food: Usually you'll eat Rice with beans(in the particolar houses you will be able to ask also the Spaghetti), Salad and potatoes, cicken or lobster, fruit. Please don't drink the running water inasmuch as we are to risk dysentery, buy the water bottles.

Supermarkets : In the tourist zones exist much supermarkets in Peso Convertible. In Santiago you can found good stores around the hotel Parc Cespedes (50 meters from the house) .

Medicinal: The pharmacies don't have all the medicinals. Please take Aspires and some stomach medicinals.

Souvenir: In calle Heredia, close to Parc Cespedes you can found all that you want.

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