DAY 36a
Week 6
SANTIAGO DE CUBA ~ Exploring The Town (Santiago de Cuba, CUB)
Friday April 19th, 2019
TODAYS MILEAGE – 149 miles / 240 kilometres
TRIP MILEAGE – 17,015 miles / 27,383 kilometres
We got into Cuba’s second largest city and former capital - Santiago de Cuba around 2PM and headed straight over to Restaurante Hostal Aurora, for a casual sit down meal, essentially in the back yard of a locals house, that is operating as both a restaurant and lodgings.
Suitably fed & watered, we headed off on our orientation walk which encompassed visiting the oldest cathedral in the city - Santa Basílica Metropolitana Iglesia Catedral, as well as Parque de la Alameda, Céspedes Park and Parque la Placita en Santiago de Cuba.
As a group, we were able to check into our five separate casa’s for the night, with mine being Casa Thay, a short 15 minute walk from the centre of town.
We all met up around 8:30PM to go visit the city’s only 4 Star hotel - the Iberostar Casa Granda Hotel, to take in the evening skyline and have some dinner.
Dinner being the operative word - I waited over an hour for a cold ½ roast chook that obviously died of dehydration - as it as dry as a bastard calf. The "meal" was accompanied with tinned beans and peas as more of a plate filling after-thought.
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