Cienfuegos leaves me speechless
For some cities I just don’t know what to write. I don’t know how to explain why I loved this place and why I think everyone should go there. A place can be so beautiful and yet when people ask me why I recommend going there, I can only say…
A day full of surprises
Why would a travel day have to be boring? Cuba has more to offer than just the cities and that is why I am happy we met two awesome German girls who were up for some adventure. Talking to some taxi drivers in Cienfuegos, we had arranged a full day…
Finding Ché
Just getting to Santa Clara was an adventure. This isn’t necessarily the case, but in our case it was. A lack of planning made it into a quite spontaneous ride. The morning we left Baracoa we didn’t know we’d be in Santa Clara that same night. We had booked a…
See you at the Malecon
Every guidebook talks about the famous Malecon in Havana. In my head this was the center of life in Cuba, with people catching up, music playing and full of life. I expected the Cuban version of a street along one of the beaches in the Costas in Spain. I expected restaurants…
If you don’t have a destination, you’re never lost
Before I had ever set foot on Cuban soil, I had an idea of how certain places would be and how I would explore them. Often, things turn out to be very different from what you expected, but one day in Vinales things happened exactly the way I had imagined…
Go caramelo!
There are many ways to explore Vinales. Since we’d explored the surroundings by foot already, it was time to be creative and find another way. We’d seen some ATV’s on the side of the road. They looked brand new. It was worth checking out. The owner said they were only…
Weekly photo challenge: curve
This snake was on our path on a hike in Cuba. I love the way it curves like a windy road climbing steeply up a mountain.