The real star out in Cuba’s Pinar del Río province is the bucolic, fecund countryside, in particular the Vuelta Abajo, the island’s farming and tobacco heartland, dotted with small villages and bohíos (traditional thatched huts) tucked amid the fields and greenery. Most organized tours will include a traditional tobacco farm such as Casa del Veguero, with their drying and curing shacks where great bunches of tobacco leaves hang for a month or two from February through May before being shipped off to the cigar factories of the cities.

Read more in my post In Cuba, Go West, to Pinar del Río & Viñales.

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