Images of the Day
Course of the Day: 151 km
The bell tower of the cathedral sounds good every quarter of an hour and every hour. Well, then, short night, but excellent breakfast and we leave the taxi Gabriel de casa by thanking his host. We take our tickets to Santiago and the bus arrives with just a short quarter of an hour late. Santiago Branch, agricultural landscapes are still, many irrigation canals provide a culture of banana intensive, and rice or sugar cane. Some fields are cut with a machete. then arrived on the outskirts of Santiago de Cuba, the second largest city in the country. Heavy traffic at the terminal, we are expected to sign with our names. On the advice of the driver, we take our tickets for our next destination on Monday, Baracoa. Then it was into a taxi in 1954, we rejoin our casa particular in the center of the city. The welcome is friendly and we settle down, then going to change money at the bank nearby. Santiago is a very mixed city, full of life and especially with narrow streets and steep. We begin our discovery Cespedes Square. The cathedral dominates the square, we are able to enter even though it is closed. Nice light even the beadle the ceiling for us. Private tour of this magnificent cathedral. Then, we move away from the center and come on in neighborhoods without tourists, but people just talk, always hoping for something, soaps, pens or other. A beautiful staircase leads us back to the level of crumbling streets, many restored houses, but houses sheltering services in the state. Otherwise, many around the ruins. Then we take a taxi, Ford convertible in 1930, to make the grand tour of the city. We do some royal couple and it amuses the gallery nicely.
We discover several lively squares. Wide boulevards and the port and railway station. We make a detour through the cemetery Iphigenia and witnessing the changing of the guard at the mausoleum of José Marty independence hero. Then, we travel the old residential area before the revolution. The colonial villas are superb, for those employed by state agencies, others are ruins. Back on the Cathedral Square. We climb towards a particularly animated. Rum flows freely, although it is only late afternoon. looks hot at night. Back to our room for a break, before going out for our traditional cocktail. We take to the terrace of a large hotel nearby. but the houses of other music are all closed for the moment, therefore, to sleep, because further discovery of Santiago and it is a great popular festival on one of the seats, not to be missed!
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