palenque de los cimarrones

we was 5 times in 5 years in the restaurant. It's really unique with its cave entrance. The food is really good and staff beautiful. I recommend this restaurant all my friends going to Cuba.

you can either reach the place walking through the caves or turn around the mountain and park nearby : good food, their roasted pork is a real expérience : some time you may encounter some tourist buses, the service ''ll be quite slow !

We had a lunch in the restaurant situated by the exit from the Cave.Cave is interesting to walk through once. The restaurant is placed right beneath one of mogotes, so it is shadow most of the daytime, which is convenient in the hot climat. Dining id outdoors, with live music, food was good and tasty. There is some souvenir-selling and toilets available nearby.

The $2 price of admission included a drink and the rum pour was very generous so we felt it was a fair value. The walk through the cave was simple with some African / Santeria? dancers who also wanted a tip. The dancer with the fire was best. There is a huge development in the area at the other end, set up for tour busses. We walked around, enjoyed our drink and carried on down the road.

You enter the cave through a restaurant area for the equivalent of $2 and walk about 140 metres without really seeing anything exciting. At the other end is another restaurant and what purports to be a museum illustrating life in the days when slaves lived there. It was pretty useless really. Go there to eat but don't bother with the cave.

The slave trade obviously played a big part in Cuba's history, but does not seem to be remembered in many museums. I thought this might be an exception, but it is basically a walk through a cave, followed by a bit of possibly Santeria based dancing and a view of some Santeria murals on the walls of a hut.

It is interesting to see how the slaves would have lived in the caves. Once you reach to the rear side you can get a brief horse ride to the plantations and then round to the front again. There is little explanation in terms of information, dates, the types of plantations around the área so take a guide book or information you can read whilst you are there.

if for the day is a normal paladar, only on saturday night that suggestive cave becomes a disco! go go go

The Palenque de los Cimarrones was very attractive when it was possible to walk through the caves from the bar to the restaurant and return by strolling along the road around the hill to the car park. However, somebody has decided to cash-in on the attraction and now charge for entry to the caves. I managed to persuade the 'guard' to lift the barrier across the road and to drive around the hill to the restaurant - I told him we wanted to eat there. The reason for going there was to show some family visitors the wonderful murals at the restaurant.

I'd skip this attraction and spend your time better, although the entrance of the cave/bar looks nice. The cave begins in a bar and ends in a restaurant which pretty much says it all. The Cimarrones demonstration lasted less then 5 minutes. We didn't try the restaurant and tried to move on as quickly as possible.

The story of and walk through the Palenque is interesting but would recommend doing it as part of a more complete valley tour

We weren't particularly impressed by the cave. And we had arrived too early to consider lunch so we walked back the service road to our waiting taxi. The walk around was very beautiful. The hills and fields were very pretty and we enjoyed a slow walk back to the taxi.

My husband and I hired bikes for the day and cycled to this place (amongst others). We had a very open mind. When we arrived we were charged 3 CUC each by the bar man to enter the caves. The walk through the caves was nice but not spectacular and took less than 5 minutes. Then you arrive at a restaurant at the end where there are some manequins etc.My parents arrived shortly after by car and were charged 2 CUC each which included a drink and a hore and cart ride to the start. Obviosuly we were a bit miffed about the price difference. Many excuses were made.It's a shame as we would of happliy paid 3 CUC each but we didn't appreciate the dishonesty. There are other more impressive caves which cost more to enter. This one is a nice stop for a break but isn't brilliant.

Worth to see, just cross the mountain through the cave for few minutes an you will reach a restaurant on the opposite side of the mountain.Fantastic landscape, verry nice restaurant, but food lower/average.you can buy bananas directly from the farmers.

After we ate at the restuarant we went to explore the caves, it an interesting cave that was once a refuge for runaway African slaves. It now has a museum and a resturant.