Havana - Plaza de la Revolucion

Sunday, February 26, 2017
Havana, Cuba
Returning to Havana, we stayed at Casa Leticia in Vedado for our last night in Cuba.









 

 

 
With a flight at 8pm, we had time next day to walk to the Plaza de la Revolution, through modern Vedado sporting plenty of concrete, including street markers.

 


The plaza is dominated by the huge Jose Marti memorial tower and statue on one side and the Che Guevara memorial on the other with the widely recognised photo of him reproduced as a stylised steel frieze. Nearby is a sculpture of Camilo Cienfuegos in a similar style.  


 


We continued to the Necropolis de Colon, Havana's huge cemetery where some two million people have been buried. 

 
 


Time for lunch, we returned to La Rampa and had tacos in Waoo while we relaxed and watched the world go by.  

 

 
Our last trip to the airport was in a cranky Lada, with some great 50s tunes playing. Strangely though, the music in Cuban taxis always seems to return to 80s power ballads, appealing no doubt to the Cuban romantic streak! It started to rain, and we realised that the single windscreen wiper was non-operational, requiring the driver to hop out and wipe the screen at each set of lights, but we expected nothing else ... this is Cuba!



Our month is over and we've had a great time here in Cuba with each town having its own character so travelling round was definitely worth it. On the whole, things have gone very smoothly. Having booked buses and our internal flight online from home and reserved our casas direct by email, we only had a couple of travel delays and all the casas were excellent. The most time consuming thing was queuing at the bank to change our sterling, but with plenty of ATMs everywhere, there was actually no need to have brought sterling at all, and accessing the public wifi was generally easier than we expected.

We had hoped to get a bit more under the skin of Cuba, find out more about daily life, how it works and what it means for Cuban people but our lack of Spanish made detailed conversations impossible so we are relying on the photographs to tell the story.

Thanks for checking out Cuba with us and adios till next time.








 

Comments

Jilly
2017-03-04

Brilliant blog. Fantastic photos, and very beautiful cars. I want to go!

Yoka
2017-03-04

Lovely and informative blog with beautiful pictures. Thanks!

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