Cuba

The fertile flatlands are used for grazing cattle and plantation crops such as sugar cane, coffee and, of course, fine Cuban tobacco. Cuba boasts 6000 plus species of plant, about half of which are endemic. It also lays claim to having 20 million palms spread across the country amongst them the rare, prehistoric cork palm that hails back to the Cretaceous Period. Reptiles are abundant ranging from crocodiles to salamanders, iguanas to 15 species of poisonous snake. Cuba is also home to the world’s smallest bird – the bee hummingbird, which weighs only two grams. There is no discernable seasonal difference in temperature with average temperatures between 22C to 27C and the subtropical climate generally pleasant if a little humid.

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