Saturday, June 12, 2010

The next couple of days seem to have merged a little bit, not really getting up to much and getting into a routine of eating and drinking in the same bar all the time. We have ventured out but it seemed to be the best bar we have been to so far. One of the days we went for a walk in Central Havana, it wasn't that great, looked really run down and hadn't had the luxury of having a huge amount of tourists or monuments bringing in money so looked as if it would stay relatively derelict. Then it started to pour with rain, really pour like a torrential down pour. We didn't get too far into the centre as the areas began looking like slums and full of dirty looking locals, it seemed like a risky place to be as a tourist., so we headed back to old Havana.
One of the days we went to the Havana cigar factory, that was cool the building looked as if it had some importance not like the Havana club distillery. The cigar factory was right behind the Capital building, the Capital looks just like the one in Washington DC, I haven't seen it in real life but I have seen it on TV, in films and photographs. When we got there we had to wait about an hour until we could go on the tour, we had to wait for the group to finish so we could have an English speaking tour. The tour had a cover of $10 CUC but seemed worth it, I had been told good things about it and it looked like there would be lots to see.

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