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First, there is the sound of water falling; next a tourist guide saying, "This way." The stairs to the viewing platform have an imposing presence, and there is no choice but to climb them to discovery immensity.

The International Womens Day was celebrated in Caracas with good Cuban music performed by Cuban women band Caribe Girls, who surpassed all expectations, according to the local media.

As part of the activities of cultural tourism, there will be an international encounter to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the first contact of US writer Ernest Hemingway with Cuba.

Spanish Hotel Group Barcelo is to increase its presence in Cuba's tourism, with the building of 5,000 new leisure facilities, a digital report on Caribbean News indicated Tuesday.

A new page web dedicated to the mothers and sisters of the five Cuban prisoners wrongfully held in the United States for fighting against terrorism was inaugurated by the International Committee for the Freedom of these patriots, in homage to International Womans Day.

With the third classificatory place in Cali, Colombia, achieved by the taekwondo pactitioner Mirna Echeverría, Cuba already has 106 tickets for the Olympic Games Beijing 2008.

The book "One Hundred Hours with Fidel," in which the Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro responds to French-Spanish writer and journalist Ignacio Ramonet, will have eight other editions.

The Telesur TV channel aims to help Latin American nations to rediscover each other and boost regional unity, said representatives of the network participating on the jury of a documentary film festival in Santiago de Cuba.

During last year the work of the Office for the Integral Development of Guanahacabibes Peninsula was mainly directed to the creation of the necessary conditions to develop nature tourism in the region, taking into account its attractive flora, fauna and sea.

The abbot of the Congregation of the Benedictines of Saint Ottilien, Father Jeremias Schroder, said the religious order will open a new house in Cuba by the end of the year in response to a request from the Archbishop of Havana, Cardinal Jaime Ortega y Alamino.

Lucas Bolsius, Deputy Mayor of the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, arrived in Cuba on Monday for an official visit that will conclude next Thursday, March 13.