Mercosur Travel and Tourism Magazine Highlights Cuba's Nature Tourism

The Mercosur Travel and Tourism Magazine today featured the landscape of Topes de Collantes in central Cuba through a report that highlights this setting.

An article by Uruguayan journalist and director of the publication, Julio Cesar Debali, reflects on the virtues and beauty of the location, which he visited last September during his participation in the Destino Gaviota 2025 trade fair (September 14-20), which involved three thousand sector professionals.

The publication indicates that Cuba is Pure Nature, with unique and perfect places for adventure tourism. It emphasizes the lush vegetation and mountains that cut the horizon, spaces close to the sun and beach tourist poles.

The article states that Cuban authorities maintain a constant concern for the appropriate balance between environmental protection and the exploitation of protected areas for nature and adventure tourism.

In Cuba, there are 211 identified protected areas. Of these, four are natural reserves; the rest can be used for various types of tourism, such as national parks and beyond, meaning ecological reserves and wildlife refuges, among others.

Among all these parks, the journalists invited to cover the Destino Gaviota 2025 event had the fortune of being chosen to visit a place that impresses with its beauty, and it is not precisely the color of the sea or the whiteness of its sands.

It is simply the green in its different shades, it is the color of the natural, and there they enjoyed the Topes de Collantes Protected Natural Landscape, recounts the Uruguayan journalist.

The Topes de Collantes Protected Natural Landscape is a vast protected area of Cuba, located in the central part of the island in an area known as Topes de Collantes, within the Guamuahaya mountain group or Sierra del Escambray.

This location is in the Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus, a few miles from the city of Trinidad and the Valle de los Ingenios, both declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988.

He explained that for some nature lovers with sufficient knowledge of Cuban settings, the most attractive areas for adventures on the island are the Baracoa region in the east and the Escambray in the center.

The Escambray tourist complex, and the work of the Gaviota Group in that area, is shown to be satisfactory; it is the Gran Parque Topes de Collantes, at 800 meters above sea level, a true natural paradise in a welcoming environment, he reiterates.

He also mentioned The Garden of the Giants and the Kurhotel Escambray, the Villa Caburni, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Mi Retiro restaurant, where tourist groups are typically seen off.

In his extensive article about this place, Debali highlights the nature, adventure, and rural tourism of this country as excellent, and in particular, he celebrates what he witnessed in the Escambray.