Last three days we spent in Havana, relaxing and doing more turistic staff than before, and actually we liked it a lot. Daniel was really happy that he could do beautiful pictures.
Finally we could manage to see our couchsurfers, two American girls living together in Havana. From them we learnt a lot of things.
Things are changing slowly. We did hear two different opinions. One was like the system will stay the same for longer, the other was that in the end of the next year the system will change completely. But for the moment, a doctor is paid about 20 CUC (1CUC = 1.11USD) per month and a local beer costs 1 CUC. Although the state gives them 70 cigars, 6 pounds of sugar, 4 pounds of rice and almost one glass of oil per month per person. I have no idea how they eat all these sugar. As I heard, they do consume all of it.
Cuba has two different economics set up. One is for local people, paid in local pesos, called peso nacional, and the other is for tourists, paid in pesos convertible, CUC, which is 24 times worth than nacional peso. As it was said, Raul Castro wants to unite them into one currency. Definetely looking forward to it.
For the moment I'll say Asta la vista to this (post-) communist country, which is slowly changing into capitalist one, no matter if Fidel Castro wants it or not.
Hasta siempre comandante Che guevara.
Egi
14NOV2009
Finished on the top of Sleeping Giant, Kauai, Hawaii.
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