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Road photography from my  tour to Havana,Cienfuegos,Trinidad,Santa Clara,Varadero+Cayo Blanco
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...scenes of another world like this are common on the roads of Trinidad and  may remind or show  to many of the wealthy outcomers and modern civilians the lost atmosphere of  the older neighborhoods
Trinidad,primary school pupils returning home,in the characteristic ensebles  and colors of their education grade
secondary school girls also in their own typical suits and colors...nice matching in style and motion...bags attached in front and not on the back... probably for safety reasons...
elegance at first
posing in style at Cienfuegos
...playing the tradition sometimes can be sexy...
..reflection of reality,...differing expressions on the wrong sides,...unconscious optimism  +  gloomy worryness for an unknown (rather predictable though...) tomorrow...
though shot in full motion on the way and  blurred, this expressive face imprinted fine most of it's sensuality on the snap
...wild wild thing...at large,close to Varadero
...ready to start for some fun in Havana on a hired cabriole of 30es reconstructed to a taxi of..metamodern look
Havana,at Revolutionary Square in front of the Ministry of Interior with a metalic work of Che's portrait dominating the front wall of the building
Havana,Revolutionary Square,in front of Jose Marti's statue -father of Cuban idealism and national hero killed in 1895 fighting against Spanish- The tower,about 120m high on the background however is characteristic of the ex communist Soviet  concept regarding architecture of national monuments....nowadays  is used as station for communication antenas as well...
at "La Bodegita del Melio"  mojito bar,actually a typical Cuban  restaurant which however owes most of it's fame to the fact that was one of the places where Heminway used to come....on the walls  lots of photos of other less famous  visitors together with thousands of signatures
Havana,in front of the Partagas cigar factory,photography inside the building is forbidden....the conditions for the workers may be considered as normal for the Cuban standards but  working in sections,manufacturing and packing hand made cigars for  ...10$ a month -the average salary in most occupations- plus a two cigars ...bonus per day is only depressing,especially when the mediun price of just one of those  Partaga or Cohiba cigars can hit from 10 to 100$ at  tobacco shops  outside Cuba (by the way, I'm not a smoker but an ...antismoker...)
...ready for sail  at a lake near Cienfuegos
near Cienfuegos,motorboating in the lake
near Cienfuegos,on a balcony with view to Caribeen,...at  a mansion from the Spanish era,nowadays used as a restaurant,very stylish ideed
attached to tradition...in general  Cubans despite their poorness are cultured and friendly people opening  discussions  with foreigners very easily....in any case they deserve a much better  standard of living  even if such an evolution would probably spoil a lot  of their genuiness as well as the  charm of passed by eras  
near CienFuegos, at a crocodile reproduction farm
....not crocodile Dundee  for sure...
at the  protected  ecosystem site near Cienfuegos...the palm tree bending on the left,has obviously survived from some recent tornados,common phenomenon in the area
near Santa Clara at the monument where the remains of  Che Ernesto Guevara were reburied in Cuba on 1998 after his death -still under undefined  circumstances- in Bolivia on Oct 1967
black+white in yellow,just a small sample  of the many hot sets....
Cabaret Tropicana or "Paradise under the Stars"   is surrounded by lush vegetation and palm trees offering a really ....tropical show....
Since 1931,Cabaret Tropicana in Havana, with about 200 dancers,singers,mucisians and acrobats presents a spectacular show.During Batista's dictatorship  and until it's collapse in 1959,the club was  the meeting place of many famous gungsters and Mafia elite members like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano...
...visions of fantasy...
In Varadero ,getting off the bus from hotel to the marina for a boat tour to Cayo Blanco.Varadero is a tourist highly developed  area with luxurious compounds,hotels and golf terains.Here everything is much different from the average Cuban reality.The whole area is forbidden for Cuban people unless employed  in the complex,while  the  few local residents are offered new houses by the state beeing urged to flee the area.Thus it is said that Cuba has ...land borders  with two countries,Varadero in the North and Guadanamo....(the USA navy base nowadays hosting also war prisoners from Afganistan.....) in the South....
on the catamaran to Cayo Blanco,preparing lunch consisted of ...lobsters  caught just a  short ago by this ..brave Cuban diver in the middle of the sea....
in the middle of the sail  from Varadero to Cayo Blanco  at a  protected  "sea yard"  trained dolphins can be "visited" and even escorted and touched by swimming adults and kids in the water      
on shore  at Cayo Blanco (=White Island ,due to the  white color of it's sand)
.....not in Cuba of course but in Paris on the way back to Athens due to flight irregularities.... sometimes  even a flight cancelation can be a plus for a travel especially when the air company pays  the hotel...so an oportunity for my second  tour  to Paris after my first visit there some years ago....
...last walk ,outside  hotel  Melia,my residence for two days in Varadero, just before departing for Havana airport
on  back side of Notr Dom in Paris (front side was too crowded....)
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