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Santiago de Cuba Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
to the other end of the island
This is a top pick! ... a Saturday night in Santiago is ment to be hot and kicking. I was and still are unimpressed with the nightlife of Santiago de Cuba.. Apparently there was ment to be music flowing through the streets, maybe in the daytime theres a bit going on to please ...
back to the caribbean sea but I never swam
This is a top pick! ... I was pretty bored for the short time I was there.. I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna go back there and stay when I return to Cuba, maybe just for a daytrip and should've checked put a new town like Baracoa instead. I've been checking my calendar and the time ...
The day that turned around
This is a top pick! ... - two anthropologists travelling with their two young children from the states. They explained the situation with the airlines - Cuba received a few airbuses from Venezuela recently so domestic air travel is nowhere near as sketchy as it once ...
Ross's first 12 hour bus trip
This is a top pick! ... the course of our trip. I rebounded quickly enough and we got to the bus with time to spare. The price to Santiago de Cuba was 33CUC each. Kara & Leigh showed up a few minutes later - they decided to go to Cienfuegos on the same bus ...
Our clothes are in a tree....a mango tree.
This is a top pick! ... cabs following us waiting for us to crack and get in - the heat was soooo intense! Lesson learned: don't wander the streets of Santiago de Cuba in the midday sun. HOT! (As Ross would say, only mad dogs and englishmen go out in the midday ...
Going South
This is a top pick! A hellish bus ride later we arrived in Santiago de Cuba as the sun rose. The hustle and bustle around the bus terminal was crazy but our taxi drive came looking for us and we were away before we new it. Maria who ran the Casa was lovely and let us ...
Last Night In Cuba!
This is a top pick! After a 7 hour journey back to Santiago, our last evening and night unfurled. Nowt exciting, romantic or adventurous happened. Booked a few flights on the internet, had pizza for dinner and went to bed. That's it nothing more... Hmm they say ...
Castro's City
... have cupboards of possessions and take it all for granted. The next day we took in the sites including the cemetery of Santiago. There you will find the resting place of Jose Marti. The impressive mausoleum is guarded by the national service 24hrs a ...
Cuba
... Väckte Ingvar, vi måste med våra revade segel o motor lova upp o släppa förbi den. På morgonen sen äntligen i Santiago de Cuba, fick ankra i marinaviken o vänta 3 t på tullare, läkare mm. Ingen internet endast i staden dit vi ska idag dock ...
Das Geschäft mit den Frauen
... . Einheimische Jineteros übernehmen anschließend die „Gruppenführung“. Die Abgasbelastung in den Straßen von Santiago war enorm und kaum auszuhalten. Die menschenbeladenen Lkw die hier als Collectivos taugen stoßen meterlange schwarze ...
Baseball Game
... of their arch rivals - Havana! Emma decided it wasn't here thing and I think she was right. Eventually it got underway and Santiago took the lead and the tension built, then it swung the other way, then back. Very close... Before the end our ...
Cutumba and Rum (ba)!
... after dark and was met by the seemingly nice Mirtha (time would prove otherwise...) and whisked off to her casa. I think Santiago de Cuba was definitely my favourite town in Cuba - it just had a cool vibe and definitely had much more stuff going on ...
Hot New Year
En busje rijdt verder oost tot Santiago de Cuba. Hier worden we voor 1 avond / nacht weer herenigt met B&T voor heerlijk nieuwjaarsdiner en aansluitend dansspektakel en openlucht fuif. Bizar genoeg stopt de muziek echter wel om 3h en gaan dan eveneens ...
Twee maanden in Cuba
... en het weer is nog niet goed. Als dat allemaal in orde is vertrekken we naar Cuba. We leggen 20 graden voor naar Santiago de Cuba (SdC). Na zo´n 70 mijl motoren krijgen we wind. Dan begint vroeg in de morgen de vismolen te ratelen. Na een kwartiertje ...
Not for love nor money!
... to you about the country over a beer. It is a far too unpredictable life for me, but one that Havana is accustomed to. Santiago has fewer beautiful buildings much more space, but as a much smaller town- it has character. Surrounded in the distance by ...
Started School in Santiago de Cuba
Started Spanish lessons today, 4 hours each morning of gruelling grammar. After lunch and a beer it is off to Salsa lessons. Back for some homework, a huge Cuban feast and more homework, washed down with a little ...
Santiago de Cuba
... not an issue, it was the deceit... fecking really annoying!!!!! We left Camaguey and got the bus to the birthplace of Salsa... Santiago de Cuba. Once again we Gustavo had recommended a place to stay, so we went there. We knocked on the door, the old ...
Santiago de Cuba
This is a top pick! scenario number one: after i spent a day with my mum in la habana, we took the train from the capital to santiago de cuba. the trainride should have taken 15 hours, but took about 50% more as the train broke (v disconcerting when the lock gets ...
Under construction - Oriente
... sun is back, everyone is in the streets, there's a cool atmosphere here... 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 ...
Santiago de Cuba
... the Castillo del Morro [our taxi was an old American chevrolet- lots o Cuban cars date from the 50s] and enjoying the Carribean festival that was taking places in Santiago. There was live music in the main square every night and a parade throught the ...
Beaches, waterfalls and more dancing
... hour and a hlaf late, then took 2 hoursa longer than expected so 18hrs after getting to the train station we finally arrived in Santiago de Cuba. I had a fever on the train as well so wasnt ion the best of moods and its much much hotter at this end of the ...
Santiago
Santiago de Cuba was a very colourful city although the buildings were quite dilapidated in comparison to Havana, and we had to ward off quite a few ...
cuba
So that was that...complex and a little cazy.....casa particulares and buses...learned a lot and sat around parks too much. There was a walk in the country and a cave, there was a very late night in havana and a look in the mirror. There was a lot of ...
Jul 25, 2011