While this is technically true
If you are there on a cultural purposes trip, as I was, once you are there, there is little to impede you from looking around. Since I was there at the invitation of their government, they kept me under close watch the whole time, and I never saw a beach, but they did bring me around Havana to see the old town and have a coffee where Hemingway used to hang out.
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