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It was back in August, when I counted my remaining vacation days for the year – and did figure out, that – due to all those public holidays around Christmas and New Year – I would have more than 2.5 … Continue reading
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We spent the last two days of the trip at the beach of Maria La Gorda (literally translates to Mary, the fat) … two days with options for beach walks, beach cocktails, some nice snorkeling or for the more adventurous: diving … Continue reading
For our last evening in Viñales we had an included visit to a farm; during that visit we also had dinner – with a full roast pig as main 😉
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Today saw me and the Canadians heading for a visit of San Tomas cave, Cuba’s biggest cave system and second largest to the Americas. Surely the cave tour only covered a small portion of that – it nevertheless was a … Continue reading
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Today was reserved for a full day of hiking in the valleys around Viñales. On the way out of town we met our guide and continued into the farmland stopping at some of the tobacco houses on the way. Our … Continue reading
The third week of the trip was to start today … Natalia referred to it as the relaxing part. Also the group composition changed; only three of us continued, so we got nine newbies on the group … now coming from Australia and Canada.
We left Havana midday and made our way into Viñales (after an extended lunch stop) in the afternoon. Here we moved into our casas – to then meet up again and go for a walk around town.
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We had one full day in Havana … I had already seen, what I had high on my list, so I took it easy today … with more explorations in Habana Vieja and another round on the tourist bus.
This day we made it back to the capital by plane – actually we were flying to an unfinished airport outside of Havana … as it turned out we had flown from Baracoa to Playa de Baracoa.
We made it back into town – this time staying in a bigger casa in Habana Vieja – with a nice rooftop terrace providing great views of town.
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Another day in Baracoa – once more an active day. Today we left town heading South-East, walked along the black sand beach, crossed over Rio Miel (honey river) and into the hills and down to a cave with a fresh … Continue reading
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We left Baracoa heading towards El Yunque (the table mountain shown on one of the photos from yesterday) – however without the intention to get up the mountain; we rather had a simple waterfall hike in mind. The hike started … Continue reading