Old Square

Conga on stilts. They were accompanied by a bizarre figure in a blackface and big butt costume - there is picture of it in after the text section of this blog post. I cringed when I saw the costume. It got me wondering about race relations in Cuba, which is something I didn’t get a strong feel for during my time there.

Isolation and Adaptation

October 9th 2017
Forgive Me, O Travel Gods, For I Have Sinned... ...I am traveling on a package tour. My first since I was a teenager. I realized early on that I preferred to make my own decisions and what to do and where to go, and that I liked figuring how to get around. My resolve to avoid package tourism was reinforced in 2014 when I took advantage of [url=../../Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/blo ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Cuba » Oeste » La Habana

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

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