Cuba Guide
Cienfuegos and Villa Clara
Cayo Las Brujas
Turning left at the pocket-sized airport terminal on arriving at the first of the developed cays, Cayo Las Brujas, a road cuts through the green brush that covers most of the islet and skirts around the edge of the small airport that serves the cays with three flights a week to Havana and Cayo Coco ( 
42/35-0009 & 35-0011). At the end of the road is a minuscule car park where you will have to show your passport to the attendant and from where a short wooden gangway leads to the carefully hidden beach and the Villa Las Brujas. Sitting snugly at the end of the craggy platform along which the hotel cabins are lined up is Restaurant El Farallón, the only option for food. A spiral staircase leads up to the lookout tower and a modest view of the ocean on one side and a sea of green scrub on the other. Dividing the two is the narrow, curving sandy beach, dotted with palm thatch umbrellas, which arches round enough to form an open bay of usually placid bluey-green waters.
Back at the main road, just beyond the airport terminal, on the opposite side of the road, is the only gas station on the cays and a car rental office. Continuing from Cayo Las Brujas, the causeway links up with the next significant cay, Cayo Ensenachos, where the beach is now the property of the hotel established here in 2005. About 15km beyond Cayo Las Brujas, the causeway concludes at Cayo Santa María, boasting a stunning twenty-kilometre-long beach, which Fidel Castro is said to have described as superior to Varadero.