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Jardines del Rey

By: Roberto Campos | Photos: Emilio Herrera
 

In 2007, for the fourth year in a row, the two millionth visitor to Cuba was distinguished with a celebration. This time at Jardines del Rey for Canadian Jehan Belinge on his 14th visit to the keys, where he delights in the level of services and staff attention.

Between the Hicacos Peninsula and Nuevitas Bay off the northeast coast of Cuba, you can see the 465 kilometre long Sabana-Camagüey archipelago, now re-baptized Jardines del Rey, the name given it in 1552 by Spanish conquistador Diego Valezquez in honour of King Ferdinand. The archipelago is home to more than 2,000 islets and keys, the most famous of which is Cayo Coco.

The paradise that is Cayo Coco was recognized by Ernest Hemingway when Islands in the Stream character, Thomas Hudson, discovers the lagoon where hundreds of pink flamingos come to feed.

Today's visitors can not only bask in the spectacle of rosy flamingos flying over their heads but, amid the silence marked by the slow murmur of the waves washing the roots of the...

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