Casa Colonial Maruchi
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Dancing & Music here is out of this world
Don't stay too long and get your cash before arriving to avoid the queues in the bank.This Casa was great with a lovely Zen garden.
Santiago part 1
... CUC monthly tax to the Government regardless of how many bed nights they actually get.
Govt inspectors come round the casas each month and look at the guest books. There are minimum standards such as hot water.
Advertising is forbidden here - except for revolutionary propaganda of course! Informal networks channel tourists from one casa to another in the next ...
Pool time!
... steep streets, cats and dogs everywhere, the occasional squeal of a pig from some unknown location and token rooster!
There is an element of 'dodgy’ about this place, yet we have felt safe. We have been asked many times for pens and soap. It is very hard when little old ladies beg you for soap. It provides some insight into the Cuba we don’t yet know….
Our casa (home) has a little roof terrace where we eat our meals. We are ...
AN EASY WALK TO A CUBAN SHRINE
... left at 0911, two bags [two footed variety] remaining behind.
The Sierra Maestre mountains were chosen due to their isolation, probably more a factor for Castro's hideaway never being found than the 'party line' of Batista being 'afraid' to attack. Raoul said the area was opened up to international tourism in 1998. Red and Ania yapping about non-sensical things involving English hospitals and the like rather than Cuba or at least travel. A joke from Raoul: a ...
Living like Kings
... breakfast and we headed to Bacanao. The drive had various roadside sculptures and the scenery couldn’t seem to make up its mind as it varied from open grassy plains to tropical green forests to dry barren fields. We followed the coast where the immensely blue sea looked incredibly inviting and the plain, dusty, poorly maintained and deserted hotels and theme parks looked depressingly dull. Our driver took us to the main attraction, a ...
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