Hotel Niquero
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... a small charming city with amazing Cuban street food, that even I could pay in Cuban Moneta Nacional. In the evening I went for improving and practicing to a recommended but almost empty bar. And got to know the local fellow Albierto for a chat in ...
In Castro's footsteps
... in no way represent the incredible tough life he has lived.
Our guide organised lunch for us in a house of a friend of his at the base of the Sierra Maestra. We were both a little nervous of getting sick when we entered because it was a wooden shack where everything was prepared without plumbing, refrigeration and on a wood fire. It was a great meal of goat in the end and quite an experience.
A storm ...
Way too much food
... of the afternoon was so intense that after a short walk that didn’t result in anything new we found a shady spot by the swimming pool, did a few widths and had a few drinks whilst watching a pair of Black-cowled Orioles nest-building. As the afternoon drew on and the temperature fell a little, we first spent some time around the gardens looking for butterflies and later had a stroll to the trees where ...
Too much food!
... views of the attractive but common West Indian Woodpecker just before we left. Time to move on, with a bit of uncertainty. The hills east of the small town of Najasa in Camaguey province are home to a number of very rare birds and trip reports say that Pedro Regalado is the man to help you find them. Internet in Cuba is expensive and uncommon and we had failed to make contact with Pedro beforehand but we knew how to find his house and also the location of Rancho ...
Crappy hotel, beautiful Cayo Blanco
We stayed 3 nights in Marea del Portillo which is an inlet surrounded by rocks. The beach of black sand has only a handful of hotels, of which we stayed in the best rated...it was a three-star all-inclusive hotel which was quite terrible.
Since we are not fans of dark sand and mucky water, and were in Cuba for the white beaches and Caribbean blue waters, we barely set foot on the beach.
Instead, we went to Cayo Blanco, ...