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Getting to Cuba from cancun was a breeze. There were no flight delays and because my flight was so late at night, the customs officers were almost asleep. I had specifically found an ATM in cancun to take out $400 US dollars as they are always the best currency to travel with and who knew if Cuba would even exchange mexican pesos. I got a bit of a …
Viva la Revolution! Santa Clara
... to visit Santa Clara.
We arrived in the late afternoon to yet another scrum of locals trying their best to persuade us to stay at their casa, or ride in their taxi. This was torturous for me personally because Dani had been holding onto some toilet duty for a long time on the bus & I was left to fend off the desperados whilst she went to tinkle. I was not happy when the crowds approaches bordered on harassment & the scrum soon understood that I was about to explode as ...
Che Town
... Once we checked into the hostel we had a power nap for an hour before getting out and seeing the town.
Santa Clara is the town where Che Guevara is buried and where he pretty much won the revolution. We walked around first looking at monuments and statues of Che - there were loads. We went to the train wreck museum which was where they had used a ...
Che Guevera's Memorial
... the city was captured. This victory for Castro's troops is seen as the decisive moment in the Cuban Revolution as Batista fled Cuba less than 12 hours later.
Before our visit to Che's Mausoleum, we stopped for a short while to visit the box car exhibit of the revolutionary war and how they lived and traveled inside these box cars. They also have on display ...
Che
... 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 seemed an odd place to remember him...
That evening we hoped back on an overnight bus for a 12 hour ride to Santiago de Cuba - I don't like buses........ :(
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