Images of the Day
Day Course: 57 km
Excellent night, secluded, little or dog or rooster around. Full breakfast and we leave the casa to join the agency. Trinidad and wakes people eat breakfast on the run along the sidewalks. Our means of transportation waiting for us, it is a military truck fitted with seats. From the outset, I am reminded by the flexibility of the dampers, displacement by GMC or GBC8KT. We climb the mountain quickly. The road slopes impressive. After an hour, where all means are good for protection from cold wind, we arrived at the site. This is a huge park that includes several remote sites. Many hiking groups are present, fitted toe. Our guide welcomes us sympathetically, a young Cuban who is remarkably fluent English and French. Our group is composed of a pair of Australians, who travel around the world, two young German, a Swiss woman speaking, we decide to do the tour in English. We start by visiting a small museum devoted to the exploitation of coffee. Cuban industry entirely handmade. Former coffee grinders and a demonstration of the transformation of walnut coffee before a tasting. It is arabica and it is tight! We will resume our truck to get to the starting point of the hike, 3 miles to the agency, over 10 to end with a vertical drop of over 250 meters. We descended into a forest. With beautiful tree ferns. Many wild birds refuse to be photographed, including Trogon or Tocaroro, emblem of Cuba, red, black, white and green. We continue the descent Along a track slippery in places, before reaching the waterfall Caburn. The site is superb, some natural pools at the foot of a large waterfall. Some courageous flow into the refreshing water. We moved away before starting the ascent climbing and everyone at our own pace. We are joined by the rest of the group almost to the point of arrival. We climb into the truck and make a detour to the arboretum, which is closed to quickly admire the largest African mahogany. It is 2:30 p.m. ET we start to get hungry. We stop for lunch at the restaurant Mi Restiro "my retirement". Cuban dishes, salads, vegetables and rice with pork. After an interesting conversation on the situation of the country, we return to our truck still broken. Smoldering fires ablaze in the hills surrounding it and the smell of smoke as we go into Trinidad to join our casa. Tonight we went out in town to see the atmosphere around the Mojito and salsa.
Tomorrow beach day at the seaside Caribbean.
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