2009.11.02 Cienfuegos

Arriving to Cienfuegos by bus gave us really good chance to see the countryside Cuba. Palm trees, banana trees, sugar plantations, tobacco plantations, old cars and horse carriages, local people hitchhiking along the road, small single floor houses...

The city itself is a small provincial town. Narrow streets with parked cars are the first impression from the city. You can see a lot of local people going somewhere and only two tourists, actually us, lost in a new unexplored town. The one thing which was really pleasant, was that people do not disturb you by offering you cigars, taxi services and so on.

It was really nice experience to meet a local family and to have a conversation with them. Finally I had a chance to taste yuka, which was really similar to potato by taste, and a rum offered from local people.
And it was my fault to tell them that I don't know to sing and play some instrument, but I do like dancing. They turn on the music wanted us to dance with them :-).
Unfortunately we could not manage to see them again in Malecon. Malecon was really interesting. It was full of teenagers under age 18, I guess it was a meet place for all teenagers in Cienfuegos.

The next day we went to Rancho Luna beach. Because of low season the beach was not so crowded, actually it was really good for us, as we enjoyed it a lot. Again there we had a chance to talk to local people, and as usual they were really hospitable.

From the beach to the city we tried to hitchhike and on our first try we got a 56 years old American car with Japan motor. The Cuban driver was very nice to us and even brought us to our casa particular.
 

Egi
02NOV2009