After only 1h of flight from Cancun, we landed in Cuba. It’s in Havana the capital that we started our visit. Visiting Cuba, it’s a little bit like going back to the past, with all those old Americans Ford-Chevrolet at every corner and the beautiful buildings falling apart, gives a charm, a strong and unique personality to this third world communist country who since the revolution leaded by Fidel Castro and Ché Guevara in the 50’ had a big economic problems mostly because of the American embargo.

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We stayed 5 days in Vedado’s neighborhood, hosted by Eva a nice Spanish woman and her Cuban family.

The first day we went to visit the neighborhood of Vedado walking under the rain, a neighborhood which before the revolution was rich full of big and beautiful colonials houses, today became a popular neighborhood of Havana just like the others.

The next days we were still waiting for the sun but it never came, we went to lose ourselves in the streets of the center and of Havana Vieja. We went to see a show of Rumba in the street, it’s a mix of Africans lyrics and Spanish beats. Alexis got crazy taking a thousand of photos of the wonderful old cars.

Havana Vieja is the old neighborhood of the city where are the most important buildings of the government, there is a lot of charming bars, restaurants, many times with a band playing Cuban music live for tourists, also a lot of galleries and museums. Cuba is a country that gives a lot of importance to culture, education, sport and heath.

One night, we went to the theater to see a show of a contemporary dance then we went out clubbing until late with Mildrey and Yaima 2 Cuban’s girls.

Alexis had his beard cut at the barber shop and then we went to the handicraft market, Cuba is full of very good artists, it was almost like going to an art gallery

We climbed up to the top of the Bacardi’s building to see the old center from the highs and from there we can understand better why half of the city under restoration.

The rain had stopped for a while, so we took the opportunity to go for a walk at the Malecon at the ocean front and we went to visit the historical Hotel Nacional where since a century famous Artists and important people from all other the world have stayed.

For our last day in Havana, we went to visit a fabric of cigars where there are all handmade, it’s impressive to see them do it. Then we went to see an international champion chip of boxe, the Brazilian lost his fight against the Cuban, Carol got a little disappointed. Cuba is one of the best in the world in that discipline.

5 days in a row under the rain, we are very unlucky because it is something quite rare in Cuba. We are going to Viñales in the region of tobacco in the west part of the island hoping the weather is going to get better.