• Submitted by: manso
• Travel and Tourism
• 06 / 10 / 2011

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Go retro to unplug, unwind and open the mind to fresh experience

 Leave your iPod behind. Updating your Facebook status can wait. And don’t even think about checking your work e-mail. Unplug and shake off the shackles of the daily grind by escaping to Havana City destination that has  successfully resisted the forward march of time. No batteries required!

Havana, Cuba: Wander through Habana Vieja, a district like a gritty 1950s movie. Colonial tenements crumble, children play baseball with a stick, women go shopping with their hair in rollers, vintage U.S. cars trundle past. There's nowhere that can capture your imagination quite so much; nowhere as filmic, as romantic, as mesmerizing, as disheveled or as alive. Head to the Casa de la Musica for what one of our authors describes as "hot hot hot salsa with young hot hot hot Cubans." Gatecrash a late-night jamming session and learn how to dance like a local, oiled by mojitos. This is no heritage theme park; it's a spiky gift of a capital, set in its own time zone.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43241063/ns/travel-destination_travel/