Trinidad

On the bus again and this time we are off to Trinidad. after leaving Havana we are soon motoring down the highway on a 6 lane road. It looks more like a concrete runway.

The majority of traffic is trucks, most of them acting as buses. We have never seen as many different modes of transport. Tractors pulling trailers full of people, trucks filled to the brim with people, people on horseback and in horse drawn carriages and on bicycles and of course walking.

After several hours we arrived in Santa Clara. Santa Clara is a memorial to the Revolution in 1957. The local hero is Che Guevara, who met Fidel when he was deported to Mexico in 1955. The battle that changed the war was in Santa Clara when Che masterminded the derailment of an armoured train sent by the Batistan government, and a week later Che marched into Havana.

Some observations on Cuba. The average wage is about 15 CUC per month. Anyone who wants to work can. Anyone who does not want to work gets no help. The literacy rate is 98%. School is available to everyone, so is free milk for children. The local currency is 1-24th, ie 1CUC is 24 pesos. We can buy from a western shop with CUCs 2 bananas .25 CUC or go to the local market and a banana is 1 peso.
There is music everywhere. Sit on a seat in a square and music surrounds you. It is from groups of people on the street, in a bar, in the square, in a restuarant. It is everywhere.

Trinidad.

What a place. It doesn´t matter what time of the day there are always many people everywhere.

Music all day and then the bars keep the dancing and music going until the early hours of morning.

And the old cars are everywhere