Hello steemians,
My name is Dominik, I am passionate about traveling. In this post, I am going to go through my 10 day trip to Cuba. This was my first time going to Cuba, I am from Croatia so it's kind of expensive to fly from Europe to Cuba. But I was in the USA so it is closer and a bit cheaper. My traveling companion was my girlfriend Agnesa, and on the next picture, you can see us drinking and cooling down with freshly squeezed mango juice.
Next picture taken from my balcony where I stayed in the old town Havana, right before sea is famous road Malceon where Fast and furious 7 movie was filmed.
This is a traditional food in Cuba: rice, chicken leg, batat (like a potato), avocado. The only meat that most people can afford to eat is chicken.
The first day of our stay, our host and tour guide showed us Havana the capital of Cuba. One of the beautiful things was this Marina Hemingway. This Marina got the name by of a famous writer Ernest Hemingway because he was a regular in Cuba, he loved drinking rum and mojito, like a true Bohemian.
Like every big city has its lungs, so Havana also has this huge park. There are two religions in this communist country, Christianity and Santeria. You all heard of Christianity, but Santeria is probably unknown to you. It is a religion where families bring sacrifices of animals, mostly chickens (they are most affordable). This woman on the picture is doing a ritual, so they bring chicken there and break their legs, pray and they kill it and after that, they spill its blood into a river. Our guide told us a story where Fidel Castro (former president of Cuba) during his stay in Africa killed an elephant and spilled its blood into a river.
On next picture, you can see Ernesto Che Guevara's house. He is a most known revolutioner in the world. He and handful of people took control of Santa Clara (Cuban city). He was actually from Argentine but he came to Cuba to help Fidel Castro in his revolution against Batista. He was killed in Bolivia and buried in the city which he gave freedom; Santa Clara.
Next day we had a trip to the countryside in a village Vinales. Best tobacco for Cuban cigars is grown there.
In Vinales we had an hour horse ride, I did a couple of them in my life but this one was special. There was no one in front of a horse to lead his way. I had one horse, my girl had second and on the third one was our guide. Nature was fantastic, I am sorry that I don't have any photos of that.
One of the most unforgettable experience was to take a shower under a natural waterfall. Yes, that is me under it, like a movie right?!
Look how big this tree is!
This building on the back is US embassy in Havana, and this poles in front is a Cuban protest, there is also stage there where Cubans come to protest against the USA weekly with loud music, dance, and whistles.
When you walk through Cuba, any city or village, you feel like you are in a museum watching all those cars on the streets. Cubans have embargo to get new cars in Cuba, so they just fix the old Chevys and drive them, of course, they switched regular fuel engines for diesel.
This is from Ernest Hemingway favorite bar; La Floridita. We had a mojito there of course.
This is a mother of our host that was making us fresh mango juice every day and very tasty breakfast (fruits and omelet).
We thought that this is where our trip is over, but we were unlucky with our return flight. Our plane got broken before getting in the air (at least it didn't have a chance to get broken in the air). So we got stuck in Cuban airport for extra 14 h. But on the side of that trip was fantastic and I would recommend Cuba for everyone.
Thank you for reading guys, I hope you liked it. Follow me for more reviews of my future trips. All photos are originals and taken with my iPhone.
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