8-day free travel in Cuba, guide

8 days of free travel in Cuba, guide compiled. |||📝Chinese tourists enter Cuba without a visa; flying from China to Cuba requires filling in a tourist card, while flying from Canada to Cuba does not require filling in a tourist card, but they must first register online at the Canadian airport. 📝The official language of Cuba is Spanish, so it is impossible to communicate in English in many places. 📝Cuba’s network management is not as terrible as legend has it. European and North American mobile phones can use their own data in Havana, but Chinese mobile phones cannot. You need to purchase SIM card data locally; hotel Wifi is generally prone to disconnection. 📝Local high-end hotels use 220V voltage, and ordinary people’s homes use 110V voltage. However, due to insufficient power supply, in addition to high-end hotels, many ordinary people in Havana have power outages for 3-5 hours a day (power outages in other remote areas can last up to more than 10 hours a day); therefore, you must consider the issue of power outages when choosing a B&B. 📝The water quality in Cuba is not good. Even the tap water will form a layer of scale after being boiled, so you can only drink bottled water. 📝There is a shortage of food in Cuba, so everyone must be mentally prepared for this; as for the free lobsters mentioned on the Internet, they are actually frozen; and most restaurants provide lobster tails instead of whole lobsters. 📝Go to state-run stores to buy cigars and rum; be sure to check the magnets when buying refrigerator magnets, because Cuban refrigerator magnets use very few materials and have weak magnetic force; Cuba does not have American fast food such as McDonald's or KFC, and there are very few Chinese restaurants. . 📝Cubans love to receive U.S. dollars. Official exchange rate: 1:120, private exchange rate: 1:320; high-end hotels do not accept cash, and credit cards are charged in US dollars according to the official exchange rate, which is not cost-effective. Therefore, Chinese tourists can exchange Cuban pesos at small restaurants or B&B owners, but do not exchange them with strangers on the street. Try to eat in civilian restaurants or state-owned restaurants. The same lobster meal in a small restaurant costs 10-12 US dollars, while a five-star hotel will cost 40-50 US dollars. 📝If you enter a small restaurant and pay in US dollars, first read the menu and ask about the price; if the checkout exchange rate is above 1:300, then feel free to dine. 📝Local taxis are all negotiated, and there are also online taxis, but they are all in Spanish. 📝The overall security in Cuba is OK, but people often strike up conversations on the road and ask if they want a taxi, cigars, rum, or currency exchange. Just ignore them. 📝Many local roads have no road signs, few traffic lights, inconvenient refueling, and no English instructions, so it is best to give up the idea of ​​driving by yourself. 📝I took a tour bus from Havana to Trinidad. It took more than 7 hours to travel 320 kilometers. 📝A local Chinese tour guide friend gave us a classic car of the same style as Jay Chou for 25 US dollars per hour. The driver played Jay Chou's Mojito as soon as we got in the car. It was a great experience. 📝Dinner at the Kempinski rooftop restaurant, the biggest surprise. 📝The main attractions in Havana are concentrated in the Old Town, within walking distance. For me, the shortage of supplies and the language barrier do cause some inconveniences, but Cuba is still worth traveling to experience.