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Santa Clara Slideshow
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Santa Clara
Travel Blogs from Santa Clara, Cuba
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Roses are red, violets are blue...
This is a top pick! ... . Our 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 ...
Travel by night
This is a top pick! We exit the bus depot in Santa Clara into an onslaught of card-carrying, middle-aged women. They´re all hawking their casas or (for the few men) taxi service, and disperse only reluctantly. But our arranged driver, Hermes ("gordo y grande" -- fat and ...
Transported
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Daytripper
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Che's Capital
... Guevara 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 ...
Che
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 ...
Che chewed train
... 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 ...
Cuba Si..!!!!!
Here are some scripts regarding the place we visited----Santa Clara was founded by 175 people on July 15th, 1689. One hundred and thirty-eight of them were represented by two large families already living in the area and, therefore, owners of the land ...
Santa Clara
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 ...
Che's Land!
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 ...
Beers, Rum, Cigars And Cake - The Perfect Birthday
Today was Brendan's 27th birthday and we spent the day doing quintessential Cuban things. We started the day off right with a run out of town, dodging early morning commuters in horse and carts, out to the Che Guevara monument and back to be healthy ...
Santa Clara
... , 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 ...
It´s all about Che
... Casa 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 ...
Che Guevara
Die Stadt mit dem Che Guevara Monument und seiner Grabstätte. 1997 wurde sein Leichnam aus Bolivien hierher überführt (ob es der echte ist bleibt bis heute rätselhaft). Eine Grabkammer, das Monument und ein kleines Museum mit Artefakten aus Ches ...
Che mania
... 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 ...
Transvestites
... because everything closes before 12pm as it is Sunday and a small village. Also There was only one bus leaving from Cienfuegos to Santa Clara in the afternoon which meant I would have not been able to see it at all because also the museum closes early ...
Santa Clara
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 ...
A Sell Out At The Baseball
... bus station from where we caught a bus to Santa Clara (Che town). The bus was frustratingly slow, stopping 30km outside of Santa Clara for a one hour lunch break where the drivers got a free hot meal and a live music performance while the majority ...
Che Town
... sat and people watched. We then returned to our room where we had a quiet rum while planning our remaining time in Cuba. We are becoming a little frustrated at the lack of control we have in organising our onwards travel and accommodation and ...
Che
... was quite a monument. But we were a little non-plussed to why Che was chosen to be commemorated here. Santa Clara was one of the cities Che liberated, but today its a university town and has little to offer the tourist, so ...
Under Construction - City of CHE
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
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 ...
Jul 28, 2011
Whats been happening
... Michael 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 ...
WELCOME TO CUBA #3 of 4- HELL FREEZES OVER
... 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 ...
The hand of Che
... put in 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 ...
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