Your curiosity and patience will inevitably reward you with a glimpse of a genuine geisha or maiko (apprentice geisha), the copious layers of her opulent and unimaginably heavy silk kimono rustling as she hurries to an appointment or a training session.
If you will search the city long enough, you will see a geisha or a maiko.
The Tropicana in Havana (Calles 72 and 43, Marianao; Tel. 33-7507), founded in 1939 in a dazzling open-air arena, is indisputably the queen of cabarets.