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Essential Items for Traveling to Cuba

Learn about the necessary items to bring when traveling to Cuba, including currency, toiletries, swim gear, and important documents. Discover famous Cubans, key moments in Cuban history, and popular Cuban dishes.

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Essential Items for Traveling to Cuba

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  1. Jeopardy CUBA! Instructions

  2. What to Bring100 Currency, Credit Cards • 1 CUC = $1 USD, Moneda Nacional • CC & ATM won’t work • Bring Euros • Change $$ at airport

  3. What to Bring200 Rollup Thermarest Mattress If you are a family of 3 or 5

  4. What to Bring300 Toiletries, Rx, electronics… Don’t count on being able to buy anything including TP, wipes, soap, memory cards

  5. What to Bring400 Electricity & Cell Phone 110V GSM 900

  6. What to Bring500 Swim Gear • Mask & snorkel • Water shoes • Sunscreen • Repellent

  7. What to Bring600 Notarized letter If travelling without both parents

  8. What to Bring700 Health Insurance • Buy at Havana airport • At ASISTUR Old Havana • 2.50 CUC/person/day • Mandatory

  9. What to Bring800 VISA to enter Cuba • At airport in Mexico City • $35/person • Need to know address of Havana homestay

  10. Food, Drink, etc.100 National Drinks Coffee & rum Mojito, Daquiri, Cuba Libre Drink bottled water only

  11. Food, Drink, etc.200 Agricultural Products • Cigars • Coffee • Organic produce • Sugarcane • Oranges • Rice

  12. Food, Drink, etc.300 Congris Rice & beans

  13. Food, Drink, etc.400 RopaVieja “Old Clothes” Pork or beef served with yucca or potato as well as plantains, unripe bananas and even corn

  14. Food, Drink, etc.500 Boliche eye round beef roast stuffed with chorizo browned in olive oil simmered until the meat is soft, then quartered potatoes added. Served with white rice and fried sweet plantains.

  15. Food, Drink, etc.600 Tostones Twice fried plantain slices

  16. Food, Drink, etc.700 Medianoche Staple served in Havana's night clubs midnight. Consists of roast pork, ham, mustard, Swiss cheese, and dill pickles. Made on soft, sweet egg dough bread similar to Challah rather than on the crustier Cuban bread of a Cuban sandwich.

  17. Famous Cubans100 Fidel & Raul Castro Fidel: Prime Minister 1959-1976 President 1976-2008 Raul: President 2008-current

  18. Famous Cubans200 Celia Cruz Queen of Salsa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lArGoRhFr4E

  19. Famous Cubans300 Gloria Estefan Singer, songwriter and actress https://youtu.be/eeKxQ9LQAB4?t=11s

  20. Famous Cubans400 Desi Arnaz • musician, actor, television producer, writer and director • Ricky Ricardo on the “I Love Lucy” show

  21. Famous Cubans500 Jose Canseco Major League Baseball Player (1985–2001)

  22. Famous Cubans600 Jose Marti • Poet, essayist and journalist. • One of the great turn-of-the-century Latin American intellectuals. • One of his poems from the book, "Versos Sencillos" was adapted to the song "Guantanamera", which has become the definitive patriotic song of Cuba

  23. History100 Cuban Revolution 1953–59. Armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement against the U.S.-backed authoritarian government of President Batista, replacing his government with a revolutionary socialist state. Later reformed becoming the Communist Party in Oct 1965

  24. History200 Che Guevara Argentine Marxist revolutionary who joined Fidel Castro and played a pivotal role in the Cuban Revolution that deposed the Batista regime

  25. History300 Bay of Pigs Invasion • Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion undertaken by the CIA-sponsored Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961 • Intended to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro

  26. History400 Guantanamo Bay • The US assumed territorial control over Guantánamo Bay under the 1903 Cuban–American Treaty of Relations • It is the home of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, which is governed by the US that President Obama is trying to close

  27. History500 Cuban Missile Crisis 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. In response to the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, and the presence of American missiles in Italy and Turkey against the USSR, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev decided to agree to Cuba's request to place nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter future harassment of Cuba. Result…

  28. History500 Cuban Missile Crisis • Result • Withdrawal of Soviet Union's nuclear missiles from Cuba • Withdrawal of American nuclear missiles from Turkey and Italy • Agreement with the Soviet Union that the United States would never invade Cuba without direct provocation • Creation of a nuclear hotline between the United States and the Soviet Union

  29. History600 Mariel Boatlift • Mass emigration of 125,000 Cubans by boat to the US with Fidel Castro’s approval between April 15 and October 31, 1980 • It was discovered that a number of the refugees had been released from Cuban jails and mental health facilities

  30. History700 Operation Peter Pan • Mass exodus of 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children ages 12-18 to the US between 1960 and 1962 • This operation was the result of wary parents under the Castro Regime which was on a mission to transmit revolutionary thinking to students

  31. Pasatiempos100 Baseball Cuban National Team Olympics Gold: 1992, 1996, 2004 Silver: 2000, 2008

  32. Pasatiempos200 Dancing • danzón, mambo, cha-cha-cha, bolero, salsa, rumba, reggaeton • make sure to watch the virtual reality

  33. Pasatiempos300 Family Life “My cousin and I hunt snakefish, go to my grandpa’s farm, and raise chicken babies.”

  34. Pasatiempos400 Music So many kinds and in the streets! Buena Vista Social Club and Afro-Cuban All Stars

  35. Cuba Idiosyncrasies100 Jineteros specialize in swindling tourists: buy cigars, offer homestays

  36. Cuba Idiosyncrasies200 Our US government license to travel • “private foundations doing research” • Remember to contribute to the blog!

  37. Cuba Idiosyncrasies300 How to act at the airport in Havana • You are travelling only with your family • Not part of a group

  38. Cuba Idiosyncrasies400 Tipping & Gifts • Carry 1.00 CUC coins • 10-15% taxis • Restaurants already include it, but leave a little extra if service was good • Laptops needed by MBA students!! • Look at gift list in Cuba Manual

  39. Cuba Idiosyncrasies500 Homestays • Pay them directly • Can’t cancel • Have at least 1 dinner with them (outside Havana) • Don’t ask them to book a restaurant for you • Call to confirm the day before arrival

  40. Cuba Idiosyncrasies600 Lilliana She is your host, go-to person in Havana

  41. Cuba Idiosyncrasies700 Vouchers • This is their system • You will receive at briefing first day • You need to keep track!

  42. Bonus QuestionPriceless! What is the most important ingredient? • Attitude! • Expect hiccups • Be polite • Keep your sense of humor!

  43. Instructions • Click on the number under the category that you would like. • When you need the answer, click under the question and the answer will pop up. • Click on the box at the bottom to go back to home page and keep playing.

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