Buying lunch

Tales from Trinidad

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August 14th 2008
Having sussed the Havana bus reservations we travelled down to the south of Cuba to an old colonial town called Trinidad. If Havana is stuck in the 1950s Trinidad is more or less existing in the 1930s, there is even less evidence of commercialisation and tourism here. After we had run the gauntlet out of the bus station and avoided being dragged to a random house by one of the many old women w ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Cuba » Centro » Trinidad

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The native Amerindian population of Cuba began to decline after the European discovery of the island by Christopher COLUMBUS in 1492 and following its development as a Spanish colony during the next several centuries. Large numbers of African slaves ... ... read more