Florida travel guide

Some 46 km northwest of Camagüey on the road and railway to Ciego de Avila, is Florida, a town of some 40,000 inhabitants, with hospitals and clinics, a museum, art gallery, Casa de Cultura, cinema, hotel and restaurants. There are a couple of sugar mills, some factories making construction materials and textiles and a brewery. Tour buses pass through here, but few foreigners stop long. However, there are a number of lagoons in the area and Florida is used as a base for shooting and fishing expeditions. The reservoirs Porvenir and Muñoz nearby and Mañana de Santa Ana, southeast of Camagüey, are used for organized six-hour trout fishing sessions. The area is also popular for shooting duck, quail, doves and guinea fowl, among other game birds, so if you stay at the local hotel, La Casona de Florida, you may find your fellow guests are hunters. The other hotel, Hotel Florida, is used by Víazul as a pit stop for lunch on the way from Trinidad to Santiago, but the guests are all Cubans on a family holiday.