taco's & toucan's travels ~ 2019

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DAY 39

Week 6

CAMAGÜEY (Camagüey, CUB) to TRINIDAD (Sancti Spíritus, CUB)

Monday April 22^nd, 2019

TODAYS MILEAGE – 160 miles / 258 kilometres

TRIP MILEAGE – 17,467 miles / 28,110 kilometres

All of us were up and out of the Hotel Colon before 9AM as we had scheduled a bicycle taxi tour of old town Camagüey.

I have to say outside of staying in The Underground Hotel in Coober Pedy, this is the first hotel I've stayed slept in that's had no windows at all - kind a weird ..... or did they re-purpose a broom closet, because the room sure felt that way???

In just on a hour, we got to see a few of the city’s historical sites like Plaza de los Trabajadores, Teatro Principal de Camagüey as well as the gallery and street sculptures of renowned local artist Martha_Jiménez.

It was then a 3 hour bus ride into Sancti Spíritus where lunch was meant to be a Jamón serrano sandwich at the Taberna Yayabo, which turned into a 2 hour ordeal in which you got two 1 inch thick slices of dried bread with thick bacon rasher like pork meat and sweaty cheese for $8 USD. As meals go, it could only be best described as a shit sandwich without the bread.

The rest of the afternoon was filled with the 1½ hour drive into Cuba’s third oldest city – Trinidad.

After freshening up at my casa - Hostal La Dueñas, we all met back at the main casa - Casa Anay y Jesus for the resident barman - Ronaldo, to both instruct and allow us hands-on tutoring in the making of a Mojito, a Daiquiri and a Canchánchara, which I might add - was a hell of a lot of fun.

Dinner was a group affair at the main casa before quite a few of us headed out to a local square which was pumping with locals bands at Casa de la Música.