Josone Park: A Tropical and Historic Oasis in Varadero, Cuba
Good beautiful PINMAPPLE community.
Well, we continue walking through the beautiful Varadero with its beaches and its sun and sea tourism, and this time we go a few blocks away from the sea to visit this beautiful place in the center of town known as Parque Josone. This incredible park with its lush vegetation, colorful flowers and small lake, give a kind of peace and beauty in the middle of this incomparable city.
Let's go!!
From its entrance we see many people enjoying this incredible paradise, we realize that green predominates in different shades, making our eyes cool a lot.
Josone Park: A Tropical and Historic Oasis in Varadero, Cuba
As soon as we enter the park we find on our right the Parque Los Enamorados with a very leafy dawn in the center and some bird houses that used to exist here.
The truth is that I was surprised to see so much vegetation in the middle of this city of beaches and tourism, with just a few minutes I managed to forget the hustle and bustle of the days at the beach, I felt very serene and relaxed.
Josone Park: A Tropical and Historic Oasis in Varadero, Cuba
The history of this park is very beautiful because it dates back to the forties when a Neoclassical style mansion was built for a Spanish couple coinciding with the celebration of their silver anniversary. And they turned this tropical paradise with a wide variety of exotic plants.
In these places that overflow with beauty it never hurts to take pictures and as I could not miss I took some screenshots of my girl, who was quite distracted.
And not only us, many of the visitors who are in the tourist surroundings rent classic tour machines to make many captures.
Fun fact:
This fence that you see here, has a tunnel of more than three blocks that goes from this point to the private part of the beach that they had at that time, this was ordered to be built by the owner so that his wife could go and enjoy the sea in its tranquility without being seen by anyone.
Josone Park: A Tropical and Historic Oasis in Varadero, Cuba
In the center of the lake we find a beautiful island with crooked palms and a great view towards the Main Mansion, this years ago has had different types of animals such as monkeys, flamingos, ducks, and some others, each one at different times of time, this time you could only take photos to the beautiful views.
Josone Park: A Tropical and Historic Oasis in Varadero, Cuba
This park, being so big, has a small train which gives tours throughout the park with its guide telling you stories and describing the corners of the park, which can be very interesting as information, with many curious facts of that time.
And as we cannot miss we find the main bar right on the shore of the lake in front of the great house, this offers a wide variety of common drinks from the Caribbean, very refreshing and with very good views, they also offer a boat service for fans of walking on the lake and who can have fun in it.
Josone Park: A Tropical and Historic Oasis in Varadero, Cuba
Also in addition to Bar, this huge park offers different types of restaurants for food lovers, each with a unique atmosphere and unmatched menu options. The restaurant El Retiro is one of them, the main one I would say, with a wide variety of Cuban dishes and fresh seafood.
Josone Park: A Tropical and Historic Oasis in Varadero, Cuba
But to my tastes this was the best of all, first it had a super beautiful structure, and very photographable, I loved every detail of its architecture, very photographable from all its angles and not only from the ground but also from the lake; Second, that it was not only beautiful on the outside but also on the inside, very beautiful, and the best thing is that it was Italian food, which I love very much with life.
Josone Park: A Tropical and Historic Oasis in Varadero, Cuba
After walking for a while we started to capture some details of the place, such as some of its promotions, its flowers and its bridges over some parts of the lake.
Josone Park: A Tropical and Historic Oasis in Varadero, Cuba
In addition to its restaurants, we also have other attractions such as the wine grotto, an incredible place where you can enjoy good drinks to the rhythm of seafood or grilled meats on the shore of the lake resting under the palm trees.
After exploring the entire area of the front of the park we set out to walk in the back which is no less important, as soon as we crossed we found at the first place a great restaurant called La Campana this one specialized in Creole foods.
Josone Park: A Tropical and Historic Oasis in Varadero, Cuba
After seeing this beautiful open field very spacious we can appreciate different structures and one of them is a playground so that children can spend their energy and enjoy themselves at the same time as adults.
Around here, next to the southern edge of the park, we find a recreation center with a swimming pool where they recreate different activities for all ages, which on my occasion we could not see because the Rumba, Jazz and Son Festival was being held in the park and they had all the energies focused on this.
If you want to see this Festival you can enter my profile and see a post that I dedicated to it.
These were some of the stalls that had been set up by different businesses to offer a variety of food and beverages.
We also found a mini-golf course here, very fun that I thought it was, because of the amount of traps it had, and a bit difficult since it did not have grass but a floor where the ball bounced a lot.
As a negative fact of my stay in the park was that in this part back here it was super dirty, that was due to the Festival and my visit was very early in the morning, but you have to see how people are very inconsiderate and careless with the environment, luckily this was being collected to maintain the beauty of this great park.
Josone Park: A Tropical and Historic Oasis in Varadero, Cuba
I hope you enjoyed this travel experience as much as I did. Maybe later you will visit these places on your own. There is always something new to discover in each place, something different to explore. I hope you live your own adventure and enjoy it as I have done.
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