Images of the Day
course of the day: 14 km
We dozed all night and arrive in Santa Clara, we're a bit in the clouds. Fortunately, we were welcomed and taken to the casa particular Carry, right in the center of the city. The house is very nice in any length, we take a delicious breakfast as yesterday, we were content with a little bread and chocolate. The time to install and we groom, and we leave to the discovery of Santa Clara. The city is famous for exploit Che's warrior who with 18 men was derailed an armored train Box of 408 men belonging to the army of Batista.
The city has a classic pattern is structured around the park Vidal. We take our tickets to visit the armored train and cigar factory. The mausoleum of Che is free. We stroll up armored train, or a small recovery involves four cars of the train. In debunking the rails and tipping them with a bulldozer, the revolutionary fighters did well derail the armored convoy and were mostly captured weapons and ammunition, allowing soldiers to walk on Havana for a decisive victory. We do some shopping, then to 13 hours, we will visit the cigar factory. Prohibition on taking photographs. A guide explains the manufacturing process. Since the choice of leaves and then drying for 3 years, classification according to their origin and their drying. Then, workers, all paid by the state, a whopping $ 15 CUC regardless of the age, handcrafted cigars of different categories. It takes a month to train a worker who works 40 hours 2 weeks then a 48-hour week. It shapes by hand, from the leaves, which put in a roller press for 30 minutes, and a final cap sheet is applied and bonded with glue natural. Then cigars are individually tested on a machine to check air pressure density. Workers can produce according to the size of the cigar from 26 to 54 between 50 and 150 parts per day. If they produce more, they are paid more, yes, yes, it works in Cuba. We can not visit the department raised rings, or the canning due to moisture. We returned to the room for a well deserved nap, given the previous night. Upon awakening, we leave the shop selling cigars to buy a copy to smoke with my friends non-smokers. Honey and coffee is also purchased. We then take a taxi bicycles to get to the memorial of Che. Killed in 1967 in Bolivia, his body was brought back in 1997 and was buried with those of seven comrades killed along with him. The mausoleum is huge, a large statue dominates a very extended. Then, back to the place Vidal. Many people at the end of the afternoon. The benches are conducive to meetings and talking among Cubans. Back again to the room before going into a shop to stock up on water and cakes. Once there, the smell of the kitchen that prepares Carry us up to the nostrils. Cameron, seed soup, rice, fries, sides and salad fruit are on the menu. Tomorrow, transfer by bus early to Varadero, Cuba's main tourist center.
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