Playa Larga (Long beach) is without place to doubts a paradisiacal place. The beach is not so visited as Varadero, but this spa shows its secrets of an almost virgin beach. Apart from this, this beach keeps in itself a lot of history, since was for its sands for where the troops of the United States disembarked in 1961. This beach is part of a natural park that comprehends a total area of 11 700 hectares, from Long Beach to the limit with the county of Cienfuegos, the coast with a protection line that normally has a kilometer long, but in certain points it reaches the 2 km. of wide starting from the line of the coast perpendicularly to the same one.

A little far away from the beach, a Mirador stands out, an installation located in the deepest in the Bay of Pigs, between the beach and the forest, so it is a privilege for the people that love to stare and study the birds to be there, as well as those people that love to practice nautical sports who are really devoted to be part of the nature in this awesome place called the Great Natural Park Montemar. To get a better idea of the name of this park, it is like that because the forest almost has its end in the sea, so it is like the green and the blue get together and produce the sound of the name.

For people that t like the adventure and being part of some search, this place is the favorable one. It is characteristic of this whole oriental coast of the territory the presence of flooded caves, lagoons, as well as cracks in rocks that communicate through underground galleries with the sea. One witnesses of a abundant vegetation natural, high diversity of the aquatic, big fauna. Three archaeological places located between Punta de Perdiz and Caleta de Oro also exist. It also includes the area of Mal Paso (Wrong Step), located in the oriental end of the System that is characterized by a fringe that this is guided - west, of tropical forest. The area stands out for its floristic diversity where it stands out the (Guapira insularis), endemic flower, very scarce so far, well-known only in punctual towns of Pinar del Río and Isla de la Juventud because it has a great importance, mainly in the biologic field.

They also appear the (Cocotrinax cupularis) and (Copernicia brittonorum), both very threatened species and Leptocereus arboreus, Heliotropium hypogeum, last very strange species with few populations and that has the botanical particularity that its fruits, after being formed in the air, are introduced in the soil by the plant itself I order to perpetuate the species.

Do not think this twice. While your holydays in Cuba, this is a very unique opportunity to be in contact with nature, and being able to observe the flora and fauna in its greatest splendor. Do not miss this chance of being in a place that not only holds a part of the Cuban history, but an amazing beach considered one of the best in the world.