Santa Clara, Cuba Travel Blogs

Roses are red, violets are blue...
Jan 12, 2007 (13 photos)

... assessment of the bullet holes from that position? "Probably Guevara." Our assessment of the fasion from that position? Definitely horrific... Santa Clara is Che Guevara town. It's all about Guevara. Wanna see a big fucking statue of Che? Go to Santa ...

Travel by night
Jan 30, 2007

We exit the bus depot in Santa Clara into an onslaught of card-carrying, middle-aged women. They´ ...

Transported
Feb 4, 2007 (1 photos)

... look ready for a night on the town. ** Which will last longer? The Castro regime or the nation's autopista? The bus trip from Santa Clara to Havana is akin to a poor vessel in rough seas. We wallow about the three lanes of tarmac, which is intent on ...

Daytripper
Feb 3, 2007 (5 photos)

Our return cab drive from Remedios to Santa Clara is literally the difference between night and day. The morning light reveals a rolling countryside of coffee and tobacco plantations. The highway of death from our night time adventure assumes its Dr. ...

Chasing Che
Jun 4, 2009 (52 photos)

... All around, there were more and more political signs, plus Che was everywhere with loads of different sayings. It was quite interesting. Santa Clara As we arrived on the outskirts, the memorial loomed large. You could not miss it. A huge statue of Ernesto ...

Che's Capital
May 8, 2009 (9 photos)

... won a key battle in the fight for Cuba's freedom.  The ultimate setting for the movie Che 1, which we watched in the Santa Clara Libre Hotel, the setting for the final battle on the film and in reality.  With the bullet holes still exposed on the hotel ...

Che
Jul 19, 2008 (11 photos)

No es mala ciutat, però es nota que és un punt clau de la "Revolución" cubana. Monotemàtica en el seu interior, he trobat gent que es plantejava seriosos dubtes sobre la reputació del Ché...entre altres, que tingui només una viuda, doncs es veu que té un fart de ...

Che chewed train
Apr 27, 2008 (3 photos)

... and reads Che's book on the art of guerrilla warfare. Off goes Che and with 18 students derails an armaments train at Santa Clara with 400 soldiers on board and grabs enough guns to fight a revolution. Batista takes three days to realise that the game is ...

Santa Clara
Sep 24, 2006

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Santa Clara
Dec 21, 2007 (1 photos)

I Santa Clara saa vi paa minnesmonumentet til Che Guevara, der han er gravlagt. Var bare et mellomstopp f0r vi skulle ha en siste dag paa stranda f0r Habana.

Che's Land!
Jun 10, 2006 (2 photos)

Its a small town well know for being the city that was liberated by Comander Ernesto Che Guevara. This city is where he was buried when they finally found his body over a decade ago.

It´s all about Che
Dec 3, 2006 (5 photos)

... do Hospedaje - Hostal Colonial Contact: Sr. Antonio Acosta Castro Maceo # 9 (Altos) e/ Independencia y Cespedes. Santa Clara, 50100 Villa Clara, Cuba. Tel: 222630 Air conditioned rooms with private bathrooms (and fridge). $25 CUC per night per ...

Santa Clara
Nov 14, 2006 (12 photos)

... , though you get offered lobster on every street corner! The chickens have nothing to feed on, and so are usually fatty little feckers, so the best bet is pork. Not much else to report on in Santa Clara! Next up .... Trinidad.... and Sarahs birthday.

Che mania
Dec 22, 2005

... Clara speeding down the highway at 130km/h making our way there in 3 hours instead of 5. Nice. Five minutes after arriving in Santa Clara we realised that it was probably the most uninspiring place I had ever visted. Not only was there no place to eat ...

Santa Clara
Jul 6, 2006 (1 photos)

Santa Clara is famous in Cuba for the role that it played in the Cuabn revolution. Che Guevara and a small group of revolutionaries successfully atttacked and destroyed a train here that was carrying weapons and hundreds of soldiers fighting for Batista... ...

Under Construction - City of CHE
Nov 14, 2007 (23 photos)

Due to slow and very expensive internet in Cuba, these entries are under construction... I hope to fill this big gap once I get home in december. Cuba was difficult to understand, as there as many layers for every aspect: social, political, ...

Varadero
Dec 21, 2007 (4 photos)

Bodde paa et fint Hotel for aa se det oppskrytte Varadero, en helt grei strand, men den i Trinidad var bedre... Masse turister, dyre hoteller, men billige restauranter. Masse taxier og flere markeder med fortsatt samme ting. Det vaerste var vell stanken ...

WELCOME TO CUBA #3 of 4- HELL FREEZES OVER
Jan 23, 2009 (4 photos)

... also the mistake of many Western 'small planet' ideologists in the Seventies, myself included.  I stand corrected.   Cuba's got a hard adjustment to a market economy ahead and the longer they wait, the harder it'll be.  The dual ...

Whats been happening
Dec 23, 2005 (47 photos)

... Schumacher the cabbie" it took us 3 hours with an average speed of 120kms, a median speed of 140kms and a top of 155kms! Santa Clara being a small town had only a horse and carriage ride on offer so we wanted to make our way to Trinidad but public ...

The hand of Che
Nov 7, 2006

... formaldehide and sent to the States. Than it got lost. His body was burried in Bolivia and later sent to Cuba to be burried in Santa Clara. The hand reappeared in Russia some years later and the story goes that now is in possession of Fidel. Pretty weard, ...

Che Guevara Monument
Oct 7, 2008 (9 photos)

... to do the same despite sympathising with everyone's plights. 7 October 2008 - Tuesday I'll tel you where NOT to go when in Cuba - SANTA CLARA!!! There really is not much to do here at all, but the bigger reason is that it drove me to the edge of insanity. ...

Santa Clara....Hi-di-hi, comrade
Apr 18, 2008 (7 photos)

  Thursday 17th April - we left Trinidad and were driven to Santa Clara, in the centre of Cuba.  We were only there for one night.  Thank the Lord.  Rather than put us up in a hotel in the town centre (more later), we were booked ...

My monumental fix.
Mar 11, 2004 (3 photos)

... Yamelis the next morning, I got a cab out to the bus terminal, where I was beseiged by hawkers trying to offer me a cheap ride to Santa Clara. Still on my own at this stage, and not too confident with my spanish, I opted to pay an extra $5 and just get ...

Langostas holandeses
Jun 8, 2006

... omgegooid. Geen Santiago meer - da's veel te veel gehaast. Gewoon wat langer in Trinidad blijven en dan door naar Camaguey en Santa Clara. We hadden dus nog de tijd voor wat extra dingetjes zoals naar het strand gaan - dat hier blijkbaar ook erg mooi is. ...

Santa Clara
Mar 14, 2009 (24 photos)

... and all the amazing classic 1950s cars chugging past; some immaculate, some rust buckets. We took a three-hour bus ride to Santa Clara, where we had arranged to meet the others, as they had been doing some touring in eastern Cuba the week before. Exiting ...

Santa Clara
Dec 15, 2008 (13 photos)

15-12-2008: de ochtend nog doorgebracht in Camaguey om 13:00 pm op de bus gestapt naar Santa Clara. Onderweg nog even gestopt bij hetzelfde restaurant als waar op de heenweg werd gestopt. Verder nog een niet geplande stop gemaakt omdat er iemand met een ...

Santa Clara - the home of Che!
Jul 12, 2008

... of the hustlers who organise dodgy lifts to places.  For the same price as getting the bus, we managed to get a lift to Santa Clara with 3 Cubans in a pretty small car.  It was a tight fit!!  Who cares though - we got there is less ...

Viñales – Santa Clara
Apr 28, 2007 (7 photos)

... guess that all horses, ponies and other more serious beasts of burden cannot be spared from more important duties. Like Havana, Santa Clara had a large Coppelia ice cream parlour. Also like Havana, it had a disheartening permanently long queue to get in ...

Santa Clara – Trinidad
Apr 29, 2007 (2 photos)

... stop of the morning was at a state telecommunications company office with a couple of computer terminals we had spied while exploring Santa Clara the previous afternoon. Since leaving Grenada on the eve of the Semi-Finals of the Cricket World Cup we had ...

Che the man, Che the Myth
Jun 23, 2006

A long high speed burn up the freeway to the east skirting Havana then back inland to the town of Santa Clara where the bones of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara now lie in as idol of Castro's Cuba. The abuse of the image of Che to Castro's Cuba is irronically ...